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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 opened in 1966 and became the Fox River Trolley Museum in 1984.
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.
Having shed the Fox River Lines (an interurban which paralleled the Fox River), the reorganized company emerged from bankruptcy as the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad on July 1, 1922, under the management of Dr. Thomas Conway Jr. A branch from Bellwood to Westchester opened October 1, 1926. [29]
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.
The trail crosses the river in several places and between Batavia and North Aurora the trail splits and runs parallel along both sides. [2] [3] Some of the trail is dedicated-use on the former right of way of the A.,E.&F.R.E.Co. interurban railroad and the C.&N.W.Ry. railroad, but some has been purpose-built along the riverbanks. Using the ...
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Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad, The operates the former White Pine Copper no 1 45-ton and uses it as their car shop switcher, alternating with other diesel locomotives. Fox River Trolley Museum of South Elgin, IL operates the Aurora, Elgin & Fox River Electric Company no. 5.
St. Louis, Rock Island and Chicago Railroad: Ottawa, Oswego and Fox River Valley Railroad: CB&Q: 1852 1899 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad: Paducah and Illinois Railroad: PI CB&Q/ IC/ L&N: 1910 Still exists as a joint subsidiary of the BNSF Railway, Canadian National Railway, and CSX Transportation: Palatine, Lake Zurich and Wauconda ...