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Trips 1938 through 1949 (#1 through #53)

No. Date Railway/Property Destinations and Remarks
01 05-01-1938 Gary Railways Gary-Valparaiso-lst Elect. Ry trip near Chicago (before CERA formed)
02 06-19-1938 CNS&M Chicago-Milwaukee-Mundelein (entire system, before CERA formed)
03 08-20-1938 Indiana Railroad Chartered car over Ft. Wayne loop from Indianapolis
04 10-16-1938 Gary Railways Gary-Valparaiso-account last Sunday of operation
05 10-23-1938 Chicago Surface Lines Kedzie Barn-South Shops
06 02-12-1939 Chicago Rapid Transit Co. Met. Div, Westchester & Mt. Carmel lines
07 03-19-1939 Gary Railways Gary-Hobart-Indiana Harbor, day after abandonment
08 04-23-1939 Chicago & West Towns Cicero-LaGrange-Oak Park
09 06-25-1939 CSS&SB Chicago-South Bend, side trip NIRY S.Bend-Mishawaka
10 06-04-1939 CNS&M Chicago-Waukegan-Mundelein, members only
11 05-28-1939 Cedar Rapids & Iowa Cy. Test run C&LE car for benefit of CERA
12 08-06-1939 CA&E Chicago-Wheaton-Aurora-Batavia
13 08-20-1939 Illinois Terminal Co. Decatur-Springfield (Wabash, Chicago to Decatur)
14 09-03-1939 Indiana Railroad Indianapolis-Louisville and branches
15 09-04-1939 Indiana Railroad Indianapolis-Terre Haute and branches
16 09-17-1939 CNS&M, TMER&TC Chicago-Kenosha-Sheboygan, Transfer in Keno via WG&E
17 10-29-1939 CNS&M, TMER&TC Chicago-Milwaukee, inagural trip CNS&M modernized car 716 and side trip Milwaukee to TM training school & barns
18 02-18-1940 CNS&M Kenosha, 1st trip modernized Skokie type
19 05-26-1940 Illinois Central All branches of suburban electrification
20 05-30-1940 CSS&SB Entire line, annual members' trip
21 06-16-1940 CNS&M CERA car 300 trip
22 07-13-1940 Ft Dodge, DeMoines & Sn. RR Entire line except Rockwell City branch
23 07-14-1940 DesMoines & Central Ia. RR DesMoines-Woodward
24 07-14-1940 DesMoines Railway Portion of city-suburban system
25 09-02-1940 CA&E, AE&Fox River Elec Co. Elgin and Aurora, Elgin to South Coleman
26 09-15-1940 Indianapolis Railways Shops and Broad Ripple line
27 10-20-1940 Indiana Railroad Ft. Wayne to NewCastle and Indianapolis
28 12-15-1940 Indiana Railroad Ft. Wayne-Muncie, using car 376
29 02-08-1941 CNS&M . Chicago-Milwaukee, inaugural trip of Electroliner #801-802
30 02-09-1941 CNS&M Chicago-Waukegan, Scouting trip, car 744
31 04-30-1941 CNS&M Chicago-Milwaukee, Electroliner in regular service
32 05-30-1941 Waterloo Cedar Falls & N Cedar Rapids-Waterloo-Normal-Waverley, 101, 140
33 05-31-1941 Cedar Rapids & Iowa City Entire road, one trip in 109, one trip in 110
34 06-22-1941 CNS&M Chicago-Waukegan-Mundelein, annual car 300 outing
35 07-13-1941 Chicago Surface Lines Certain south side lines, Burnside barn, car 2802
36 08-10-1941 CA&E Chicago-Aurora-Elgin, using passenger train, freight train, and mixed train on various legs of journey
37 09-21-1941 CSS&SB Chicago-Michigan City-South Bend, using passenger train to Mich. City, mixed train of loc0 903 (ex ICRR) baggage car 503 (ex IR-375) and two cabeese
38 07-12-1942 CNS&M Chicago-Milwaukee using car 300 Highwood-Milwaukee
39 08-30-1942 CA&E Chicago-Elgin-Aurora, using four types of cars
40 09-20-1942 CSS&SB Chicago-South Bend, with long car 15 & parlor car 352
41 05-07-1944 Cedar Rapids & Iowa City Demonstration trip in car 120, Ex IRR 65
42 07-04-1944 Chicago Rapid Transit Co. Inspection of Skokie Shop and Skokie branch
43 08-06-1944 CA&E, AE&Fox River Chicago-Wheaton-Elgin; S Elgin-Coleman
44 09-30-1944 Chicago Surface Lines Inspection of West Shops (no car service)
45 12-16-1945 CA&E Chicago-Aurora-Elgin (new cars)
46 07-14-1946 CNS&M Chicago-Milwaukee (steel cars to Highwood, wood cars to Harrison St
47 06-08-1947 CSS&SB Chicago-S. Bend; line car 1100
48 07-04-1947 Lake Erie & Grand River Gault-ONT- Pt. Dover-Waterloo-Gault
49 04-11-1948 Chicago & West Towns LaGrange, abandonment of last CWT car
50 03-28-1948 Kenosha Motor Coach Milwaukee-Pt. Washington
51 07-03-1948 Texas Electric Dallas-Waco
52 07-04-1948 Texas Electric Dallas-Dennison
53 11-06-1949 CSS&SB Chicago-South Bend (rode “Little Joe” loco)

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