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Article: Trolley museum rides into past
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- Courier News (Elgin, IL)
- Article date:
- May 25, 2008
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SOUTH ELGIN - The Fox River Trolley Museum will be open today and Memorial Day, providing visitors a ride into the Chicago area's past.
The museum is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to perpetuating the memories of Chicago's once-burgeoning electric railroad industry. Cars in operation or on display represent all three of the major Chicago interurban (inter-city) electric railways as well as Chicago's "L" and streetcar lines. All museum workers are volunteers.
The museum's four-mile demonstration rail line links Castlemuir Station in South Elgin, on the east side of Illinois 31 just south of State Street, to Blackhawk Station in the Jon Duerr Forest Preserve, on the site of the ...
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