This series offers a bevy of rare vintage footage featuring interurban and mainline train action dating from the 1930s to the early 1970s. Color and B&W.
Volume 2
Your rail tour continues at Chicago Union Station where you'll savor name trains from the Pennsylvania Railroad, Burlington Route, and Alton. From there you'll visit the exciting 1948 Chicago Railroad Fair; see ten different interurban systems including the Gary Railway, Chicago Transit Authority, and Staten Island Rapid Transit; and get a ringside seat for a steam show on ten railroads ranging from the Erie to the Chicago & Eastern Illinois to the Rock Island. 30 minutes. #0RV6535