Aurora-Elgin Area, Street Cars & Interurbans; Volume 4 Discusses the time when a truly unique method of transportation linked rural American towns with each other and with big cites. Covers the various independent interurbans that operated from Aura and Elgin. All technically independent from the mighty Aurora, Elgin & Chicago but dependent on it for their existence.
First edition
b&w photographs, charts maps, reproductions of documents, index.
Aurora-Elgin Area, Street Cars & Interurbans; Volume 3 The Third Rail Line, Chicago, Aurora & Elgin R. R.
began operations as a high speed interurban which linked Chicago with the Fox River Valley. Covers entire period of operation.
First edition
b&w photographs, charts maps, reproductions of documents, index.
Aurora-Elgin Area, Street Cars & Interurbans; Volume 2 Aurora, Elgin & Fox River Electric Company
Covers the history, beginning to end and the operations of the new company formed in 1924 to take over the street car and interurban lines in the Fox River Valley.
First edition
b&w photographs, charts maps, reproductions of documents, index.
Aurora-Elgin Area–Street Cars & Interurbans–Fox River Division, Vol. 1 The first volume of a 4 part set. Ambling recollections, nostalgic, at times poignant, take the reader to a time when life was simpler, when a truly unique method of transportation linked rural American towns with each other and with cities.
b&w photographs, reproductions of textual records, maps, index.
book : hardcover, dust jacket
1993
2007.034.202
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