Nostalgia & History > Chicago Aurora & Elgin Snowplow

This was CA&E snowplow #3 at the Wheaton yards on July 6, 1962, about four years after the Roarin' Elgin shut down. It was built in 1909 for a CA&E, the AE&C where the letters stand for the same cities but in a different order. The wide open spaces between Wheaton and Aurora and Wheaton and Elgin probably need this monster during and after a good winter storm. Did the scrapper get it?


Enjoy,
Marty Bernard



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/22/15 12:28 by MartyBernard.

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As far as I could find, no rolling stock other than these survived, I believe all are passenger units:

Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois owns cars 36, 308, 309, 319, 321, 409, 431, 451 and 460.
Fox River Trolley Museum in South Elgin, Illinois owns cars 11, 20, 316, 317 and 458.
Rockhill Trolley Museum in Rockhill Furnace, Pennsylvania owns car 315.
Midwest Electric Railway in Mount Pleasant, Iowa owns car 320.
Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine owns car 434.
Connecticut Trolley Museum in East Windsor, Connecticut owns car 303.
Electric City Trolley Museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania owns car 453.

List from Wikipedia

Thanks for checking that out. Here's the car at Seashore on September 1, 2012.

Marty Bernard



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/22/15 13:18 by MartyBernard.

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CA&E No. 3 shown in Wheaton in January 1963, as scrapping operations were getting underway there.

This was among the first railfanning photos, aside from a few in the summer of 1962, that I ever took. I was then a resident of Glen Ellyn, Illinois, one town east on the CA&E from Wheaton.

Art House
Gettysburg, Pa.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/23/15 08:12 by aehouse.

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