Images of passenger service on one of the three Chicago interurbans controlled by Samuel Insull
Enjoy this North Shore passenger service photo gallery selected from among the Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad files in Kalmbach Media‘s David P. Moran Library.
This gallery celebrates the history, heritage, and Electro-glamour that was the high-speed North Shore interurban railroad.
Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee
Train at North Shore Line station in Chicago’s Loop, 233 S. Wabash Avenue.
Gordon Lloyd
Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee
Northbound train coming off Shore Line at North Chicago Junction, July 1955.
William D. Middleton
Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee
Northbound Electroliner passes standard car on a southbound extra at North Chicago.
Classic Trains coll.
Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee
Sailors boarding coach 413 (rebuilt from parlor-observation) at Great Lakes, early 1940s.
C. E. Keevil
Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee
Southbound Electroliner at North Chicago.
William D. Middleton
Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee
Mundelein-bound train on “L” above Wabash Avenue.
William D. Middleton
Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee
Northbound Electroliner in Wisconsin.
Classic Trains coll.
Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee
First all-steel cars, delivered 1915.
CNS&M
Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee
Last day of service, Jan. 21, 1963, at Milwaukee.
Milwaukee Sentinel
This North Shore passenger service photo gallery was first published in August 2015. Be sure to see all the other Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad articles we have, only on Trains.com!
as usual great shots making a Brit want to find more about American railroad history.