First & Fastest Magazine 1999 Spring V15#1 Going around Construction South Shore

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First & Fastest Magazine 1999 Spring V15#1 Going around Construction South Shore
 
First & Fastest   Vol 15 No 1   Spring 1999  Some minor rippling when you feel the magazine
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FEATURES
Going around Construction 3                                                                                    
Streetcars Detoured at State and Roosevelt for Subway Construction
Bicycling up the Skokie Valley Line 6                                                                                     
Getting Acquainted with the North Shore  LARRY PLACHNO
Help Wanted 8                                                                                                                             
The North Shore Advertised for Trainmen  POLISH DAILY ZGODA, September 6, 1950
Almost New 9                                                                                                                                                       Trying Out the Last Cars Built for the Chicago Aurora & Elgin
Terror on the North Shore 12                                                                                                                                    Is This the Story of a Murder?  E. J. NEIBURGER
Big John Remembers South Bend Streetcars      14                                                                      
Living by the Miami Street Car Line  JOHN PAULSON
Racine Tower, 1949 16                                                                                                           
Where the North Shore Crossed the Milwaukee Road  LEN GARVER
"Trailer Trains Can Be Used Again" 20                                                                                       
That's What the Superintendent of Schedules Reported  FRANK A. FORTY                                           Center-Entrance Streetcar Trailers: a Nationwide Phenomenon  ROY G. BENEDICT 22                                                                                                            Placing Trailers at North Avenue  GLENN M. ANDERSEN 22                                          
The Trailers "After Hours"  GLENN M. ANDERSEN 23
The End of the South Shore! 24                                                                                         
Cabooses Punctuated Freight Trains on the South Shore Line  ROY G. BENEDICT
Sunday Evening on the Metropolitan 'L' 35                                                                         
Henry A. McCaffrey and William P. Fay Mind Their Own Business  ROY G. BENEDICT
Richard R. Kunz, 1937-98 G. MAC SEBREE 40
DEPARTMENTS
SHOP TRACK  12
WIRE REPORT 26
BUMPING POST  34
THE CSL CARBARN  An Unforgettable Trip 34
TRACTION TRIVIA QUIZ  38
BOOK REVIEW  Chicago Transit: an Illustrated History 38
AS OTHERS SEE US  South Shore, the Last Interurban
CA&E 20 at Fox River Trolley Museum  You Can't Get There from Here                 
Detroit Street Railways 3865  Mission: Interurbans  No. 319 from the                                                             Chicago Aurora & Elgin  The Snowstorm of 1967  North Shore                                    
Pushes Soo  39
FIRST & FASTEST CLASSIFIEDS  39

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