Hi Everyone: car 303 has arrived safely at the museum and been unloaded. She is now in our shop where we will reassemble her and give her a good servicing...
At the Rockhill Trolley Museum in Rockhill Furnace, PA we are slowly returning car 315 to as built condition with the exterior stained glass windows exposed....
We at the Illinois Railway Museum are looking for LATE photos, 1956 or 1957 or thereabouts of CA&E car 36 taken flat or kind of flat to the side to show the...
The Fox Valley Division (Midwest Region) of the NMRA will be hosting it's annual (32nd Year !) train show next weekend, March 6th and 7th The show is held at...
hi all: 303 has finally been loaded and should arrive in Connecticut sometime thursday afternoon. The pit is clear and the members are ready to get her into...
Hi, I am looking for copies of the data sheet(s) that were provided with slides sold by the Shore Line Interurban Historical Society in the 1990's. The slides...
It's exciting to see how enthusiastic IRM members are about the new CA&E cars. The green and yellow is almost all gone on the 451 as seen in this photo: ...
My father operated a drug store from 1928 until 1949 across the street from the main Wheaton station. I was in there a number of times as a youth. Does ...
Sorry for the brief detour into model trains instead of real ones ! I see from Randy's blog (timely and informative as always) there's a real full-court press...
Hi all: Just to let you know CA&E 303 is scheduled to move to Connecticut this next week. It is supposed to be loaded on Tuesday with delivery planned for...
Anyone in the Chicagoland area interested in starting an O scale modular club,something along the lines of an East Penn set-up ? No set agenda or anything at...
I just got word that the 458 was unloaded at FRTM this afternoon and is safely stored in their yard. Hopefully someone can snap some photos of the car. Frank...
Hi, IRM is looking for someone that had a roll sign for St. Louis Cars that we could copy, or even acquire. Contact me directly, off list, julie@... Julie...
IRM was in Cleveland on Saturday and Sunday to prep 409, 451, and 460 for shipping to IRM. On Monday the cars were loaded onto dollys for their highway...
Headlights is the newsletter of the Electric Railroaders' Association. I have some 60 issues covering the time period of 1963 to 1988. With a span of coverage...
Today the Fox River Trolley Museum was at Brookpark prepping CA&E 458 for its pending highway journey. Switching cars around created new photo opportunities....
Hearty round of applause to all who stepped up and gave their time and money to get the CA&E cars back where they belong. My wife and I are planning to come up...
I have just completed uploading pictures to the photo section of the CA&E interubans on the Cleveland RTA as well as the move of AE&FR 303 to NORM. Steve...
Welcome to all the new members who have joined in as a result of Steve's posting on the RYPN boards. I have to confess to being a bit worried as my iPhone...
Per a posting at <url>http://hickscarworks.blogspot.com/2010/01/409-westbound-at-brookpark-call-for.html</url>, 4 of the 5 CA&E steel cars in Cleveland have...
New guy asks, " Does anyone have an old trolley, interurban or traction hobby magazines they want to sell?" Maybe old books, too. Happy New Year, My name is...
Per Randy's blog, 36 and 319 are "home" at IRM, quite a quick trip from Cleveland. According to the blog, the cars were scheduled to arrive today (Tues) and...
On Saturday 12-26-09 at 11:50am, Chicago, Aurora and Elgin interurbans #460, 409, and 451 were observed leaving the Tower City Station of RTA headed east on...
I was at Brookpark Yard late Monday afternoon. 319 was already loaded on a set of dolly wheels. 36 was up on the jacks with a severe case of reverse swayback....
To all There are currently a number of HO scale CA&E models being offered on eBay. While I have no personal or financial interest in the selling of these cars,...
Per Randy's blog,, several members of the IRM team are in Cleveland as I type this, prepping the two woods cars (36 and 319) for return back to Chicago. They...
According to Steve Heister, of the Northern Ohio Railway Museum (on rypn): "Chicago, Aurora and Elgin cars 303, 319 and 36 departed the GCRTA Central Rail...
