Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee - or North Shore Line

[DLK]

Well, I can't wait until the IRM gets the Electroliner finished.

I did ride on the older North Shore for ~ 9 miles. It sure brought back memories from my chilhood.

Does anyone know where there is any other CNS&M rolling stock?

Here are a couple of links.

IRM Homepage (http://www.irm.org/)
Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee Page (http://Conductor@northshoreline.com/)

[ak-milw]

Dave,
If you are looking for pictures try www.donross.railspot.com (http://www.donross.railspot.com) or www.rr-fallenflags.org (http://www.rr-fallenflags.org) if you are looking for real i can't help you! graemlins/220.gif

[BoxcabE50]

Aren't there a couple of pieces of ex-CNS&M equipment located at trolley type museums? But far from their old home grounds?

:D

Boxcab E50

[DLK]

Yes, there are. There are some at the East Troy Electric Railroad Museum in Wisconsin, there are some in Illinois, at the IRM, where I rode for 9 miles, a couple of weeks ago. I'm sure there must be others, but I haven't tracked it all down yet. One of these days I will track down some more. These aren't that far from their home grounds.

i know that the Electroliners were both run in PA, as Liberty liners for a while until one was purchased by the IRM, I'm not sure of the whereabouts of the other one. It may be at the Rockhill Trolley Museum in PA.

[ August 23, 2005, 02:01 PM: Message edited by: DLK ]

[BoxcabE50]

Originally posted by DLK:
i know that the Electroliners were both run in PA, as Liberty liners for a while until one was purchased by the IRM, That's one that I was thinking of. The Lehigh Valley Transit Co.

:D

Boxcab E50

[DLK]

I checked, and the second Electroliner is at the Rockhill Trolley Museum.

[Photorail]

Excuse me if it's a bit OT, but the wonderful Don Ross site seems offline since some weeks....what's happened??? I was searchins some images about trolleycars...

ThankU

Stefano
Milano-Italy

[DLK]

I just tried the web site & found it with no problems. I don't know why you should have problem. It is a good site.

[mcjaco]

Am I crazy, didn't the IRM refurbish the Electroliner when they first got it back in the 80's???

[Photorail]

Oh, damn! Probably it's my provider, but from italian net that site is unreachable......:-(((((

Thanks.

[BoxcabE50]

Don changed his site address. Here's the new one:

http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/

:D

Boxcab E50

[Photorail]

Aha!!! Gotcha!!! Thank u very much!

[DLK]

Originally posted by mcjaco:
Am I crazy, didn't the IRM refurbish the Electroliner when they first got it back in the 80's??? I'm not sure when they started the project, but it is a way from being finished. The outside is finished and they are still working on the inside and the motors. It is a lon 7 EXPENSIVE project. You might want to check out their website.

http://northshoreline.com/liner.html

Enjoy.

[mcjaco]

Oh it's a total refurbishment! I know I saw it in it's Valley Forge colors when they first got it. I'm pretty sure they repainted it to the Electroliner shortly thereafter. It was looking quite sad a couple of years ago, I wonder if the repainted it again???