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The Fox River Trolley Museum is a railroad museum in South Elgin, Illinois. Incorporated in 1961 as R.E.L.I.C. (Railway Equipment Leasing and Investment Co.), it ...
Rail remaining between the current museum site in South Elgin and the State Hospital was removed in 1978. [1] [6] [7] Today much of the railroad’s former right of way is now a bicycle path known as the Fox River Trail. The Fox River Trolley Museum in South Elgin operates over a preserved section of its right of way.
Pages in category "Railroad museums in Illinois" ... Fox River Trolley Museum; G. Galesburg Railroad Museum;
The National Railroad Museum needs to raise $3 million more to pay for a $15 million expansion it plans to start this year. ... "It opens the museum up to the Fox River and adds to the museum ...
The expansion would add 21,000 square feet of exhibit, event, mechanical and community space to the museum's Lenfestey Center and a 5,000-square-foot patio overlooking the Fox River. The museum ...
This list of museums in Illinois contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Fox River Trolley Museum in South Elgin, Illinois owns cars 11, 20, 316, 317 and 458. Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois owns cars 36, 308, 309, 319, 321, 409, 431, 451, 453, and 460. Connecticut Trolley Museum in East Windsor, Connecticut owns car 303. Midwest Electric Railway in Mount Pleasant, Iowa owns & operates car 320.
A railway museum is a museum that explores the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, including: locomotives (steam, diesel, and electric), railway cars, trams, and railway signalling equipment. They may also operate historic equipment on museum grounds.