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In 1966, the museum began operating under a new name: RELIC Trolley Museum. In 1973, when freight service finally shut down on the Aurora, Elgin & Fox River Electric, the last owner of the railroad Bob DeYoung sold the remaining line to the Fox River Trolley Museum. The last big development to the museum's mainline occurred in 2003 when the ...
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.
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 ...
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]
The Chicago, Aurora and DeKalb Railroad was a 29-mile (47 km) interurban line which operated from 1906 to 1923 and connected the cities of Aurora and DeKalb, Illinois.The line made connections in Aurora with the Aurora, Elgin and Fox River Electric Company, the Chicago, Aurora and Elgin Railroad, and the Aurora, Plainfield and Joliet Railroad.
This is a route-map template for the Aurora, Elgin and Fox River Electric Company, an Illinois interurban electric railroad. For a key to symbols, see {{ railway line legend }} . For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap .
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 Elgin and Belvidere Electric Company was a 36-mile (58 km) interurban line that connected Belvidere, Illinois and Elgin, Illinois.It was the central link in the interurban network connecting Freeport, Rockford, Elgin, and Chicago which included the Rockford and Interurban Railway to the west and the Chicago, Aurora and Elgin Railroad to the east.