The Chicago & West Towns Railways

Description: The Chicago and West Towns Railway CERA Bulletin 138 is about a street railway and bus system, whose roots can be traced back to the late 19th century, which served a cluster of 17 long-established communities eight miles west of Chicago’s Loop. The Chicago & West Towns Railways operated five major streetcar lines. The lines provided convenient and inexpensive transportation to the residents of communities of Oak Park, River Forest, Forest Park, Maywood, Cicero, Berwyn, Brookfield, and LaGrange. The book contains 250 pages and 311 photos. The West Towns’ blue and white streetcars provided area residents with transportation to school, work, and shopping. The cars were also kept busy transporting visitors to major west suburban attractions such as Brookfield Zoo, forest preserves picnic groves, Hawthorne and Sportsman’s Park racetracks, and Hines Memorial Hospital. Whether it was carrying residents from their homes in Oak Park or Forest Park to their jobs at American Can in Maywood or the giant Western Electric Company factory in Cicero or taking Chicago families on a weekend outing to the zoo, the Chicago & West Towns Railway served as the “family car” in the era before auto ownership and traffic congestion became the norm. The publisher of The Chicago and West Towns Railway CERA Bulletin 138 is the Central Electric Railfan’s Association (CERA) was formed 1938. The CERA encourages the study of the history, equipment, and operations of urban, suburban, interurban, and main line electric railways. This book Bulletin 138 and other publications published by the organization, are available on this Bay website. Meetings are held monthly by the organization in Chicago, IL. More information about the CERA is available on the CERA website. If you are interested in the history of Chicago public transportation, you will want to add The Chicago and West Towns Railway CERA Bulletin 138 to you collection. The author James J Buckley was a member of the CERA. There are schematics of some of the streetcars is included as separate sheets with the book.

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