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Cera's Early Bulletins #1-19 1938-1940 Soft Cover 1976 Central Electric RF
Ceras Early Bulletins #1-19 1938-1940
Soft Cover
Copyright 1976
Central Electric Railfans Assn pages not numbered Pages are folded in half, not numbered. Complete?
Contents
1 Nov 38 North Shore Line
2 Feb 39 Chicago Rapid Transit
3 April 39 Chicago & West Towns Railway Inc
4 June 25 39 Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad
5 Aug 39 Chicago Aurora & Elgin Railroad
6 Sept 39 Interurban Car Series Milwaukee Electric Railway & Transport Company
7 Nov 39 Summary of 1st Year of CERA
8 Dec 39 Northern Indiana Railway Inc
9 Jan10 40 Windsor Essex & Lake Shore Trailway
10 Jan15 40 Lightweight Equipment on Texas Interurban Railway
11 Feb 40 Key System
12 March 15 40 Thumbnail Sketch Hudson Valley Railway Company
13 March 30 40 Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad
14 May 40 26th I.C. Suburban
15 May 16 40 Lightweight Interurban Equipments Western Ohio Railways
16 July 40 Des Moines Railway Company
17 ** Not found** Sept 40 Indiana Railroad
18 Sept 15 40 Indianapolis
19 Nov 40 Fiscal year Ended
When CERA was organized in 1938. its activities were balanced between operating inspection trips, conducting meetings and publishing Bulletins. Many of the early Bulletins were issued on inspection trips and served as a guide to those riding on the train. With the abandonment of the interurban lines and street railways, the Bulletins gained increased significance in the work of CERA, They became a means to record and remember the past. In 1976. the effort devoted to Bulletins exceeds the combined efforts devoted to all other activities of the organization.
Bulletin number I was issued for trip number 2 on June 19.1938. This trip operated over the entire interurban system of the North Shore Line. The print order for the Bulletin was 1,000 copies of which 500 copies were given to the railroad and 180 copies were distributed to those riding the train. In today's economy we note with envy that the entire cost of Bulletin number I was S29.00.
Interest has been expressed that these early Bulletins be made available. Therefore. as a means of preserving mementos of CERA's history in this Bicentennial year we have rephotographed copies of the original Bulletins just as they were issued in the period 1938-1940. Bulletin 17, the original Bulletin on the Indiana Railroad System, has been omitted. The information contained therein is incorporated in Bulletin 91 which has been reprinted separately. No attempt has been made to change, correct, or up-date the status of research that is presented in these Bulletins. Rather they are offered as testimony to the diligent efforts of a few individuals to record information in the developmental period of our hobby.
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