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First & Fastest Magazine 1997 Summer I Will Be a Motorman
First & Fastest Summer 1997 Vol 13 No 2
CONTENTS
FEATURES
I Will Be a Motorman "That First Step Was Kinda High for a Little Kid" 7 LOREN S. SHUFELT
The North Shore line in Western Illinois Rock River Valley Traction Company 9 WILLIAM E. ROBERTSON
Silverliners A New Look for Old Cars 10 JOE PIERSEN
Working Elgin Junction with a CA&E Freight Train 14 FIELDING KUNECKE COLLECTION
Lovers' Lane and the Pop Bottle Incident Men, Minds & Machines No. 21 16 JOHN D. HORACHEK
Transfer Point Crowds Transferred between the Surface Lines and West Towns 20 DON IDARIUS
Bailey and Kaley and Other Meeting Points of the South Shore's Hourly Limiteds 22 ROY G. BENEDICT
Don't Forget New Carlisle' 22 ED HEDSTROM
The Gauntlet "One of the Oddball Things the Surface Lines Did" 24
An Unusual Fantrip A Memorable Day in 1962 on the North Shore Line 28 ROY G. BENEDICT
More Unusual Than It Was Supposed to Be 28 F. WILLARD BRUINING
Clark Street A Local Station on the North Side 'L' 34 GORDON E. LLOYD
DEPARTMENTS
FORWARD VIEW Generous...and It Benefits Us All 3
DEPARTURES 3
WIRE REPORT 3
DON IDARIUS'S CAR STOP 20
INSULL'S SMALLER EMPIRE Dewirement Jackson Park 'L' Layout Extended 26
SHOP TRACK 30
FIRST & FASTEST FLASHBACK 34
BUMPING POST 35
TRACTION TRIVIA QUIZ 35
THE CSL CARBARN Kedzie Avenue: Runs and Schedules 38
AS OTHERS SEE US Samuel Insult's Chicago Interurbans Chicago Transit Posters IRM Salvages Three Interurban Bodies Car Department Report * Chicago's "L"/Subway System An 'L' of a Railroad PCC Cars 39
FIRST & FASTEST CLASSIFIEDS 39
VIDEO REVIEW A The Transit Archive Series, Volume 3 39
QUICK FACTS Hammond, Whiting & East Chicago 40
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