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Back Issues
Many back issues of First & Fastest are available. A few of the older issues are out of print and unavailable from us. However, copies may occasionally be found in the classifieds of First & Fastest. The following list contains only part of the contents of each issue. Every issue also has many other items about the Chicagoland electric railways, plus each of the departments listed on the First & Fastest main page.
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2006-2009 | 2010-Present |
Dispatch Series
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Winter 2006:
Timetables of the TMER&L - Part One, SouthShore Freight Inspection Train, Done with Despatch - North Shore Merchandise Despatch Service - Part Two, Pekin, Aurora Terminal, September 2, 1940, How we rode to work in Chicago in the 1950s - Street, elevated, interurban and suburban railways, Who is on the Cover |
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Spring 2007: Land of the Burlingtons, My Visit to Michigan City Shops, North Shore Line's Last Summer, Streetcars in the 1930s, Arthur Gerber: Insull's Transit Architect, North Shore Line Mysteries, Insulls Smaller Empire |
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Summer 2007:
Elgin–Five Railroads and a River Named Fox,
Interchange–The Milwaukee Road and the North
Shore Line,
Streetcars in the City of Lakes, A Life’s Interest
in Cathedrals and
Traction–William C. Janssen 1914-2007, Shore
Line’s 25th
Anniversary–Remembering the Early Years, Before
the Prairie
Path, Second & Slower–Riding the Rails, Biking
Through
History |
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Autumn 2007:
Kensington–Summer 1971, Rapid Transit to
Midway–Part 1–The Long Road to “L” Service,
PCC Streetcar
Routes of Chicago, Ray Buhrmaster’s Traction Collection–Part
1,
Men, Minds & Machines–Dandelion Wine and the
Electric Stove,
Chicago Mass Transit’s Periodic Financial Woes,
The Chicago,
Wheaton & Western–The Geneva Branch of the
Chicago Aurora & Elgin |
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Winter 2007:
Timetables of TMER&L–Part Two, Done With
Despatch–North
Shore Line Merchandise Despatch Service–Part
Three, The “Met” in the Suburbs, Just Another
Day on the
Railroad–“Boss, she just blew up!”,
Men, Minds &
Machines–Working the Night Limiteds with the
North Shore’s
Lady Collectors, The Big Three, Sheboygan’s Other
Interurban |
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Spring 2008:
Chicagoland’s Country Trolley Line–Part
1–Chicago
& West Town’s LaGrange Line, Rapid Transit
to Midway–Part
II–Orange You Glad We Built It?, Destination
Cicero, The
Demise of Car 100, The North Shore–Taylor Avenue
Local,
Insull Interurbans of Central Illinois, Kankakee Electric
Railway |
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Summer 2008:
South Shore Line at 100, Gary, Tremont and
Michigan City on The Illinois Central, Happy 70th CERA,
Milwaukee Road’s Suburban Service, Riding the
Streets of Old Milwaukee, A Few Treasures from Dad’s
Collection, Aurora
Elgin & Chicago Railway Company–Third Rail
Division, Big
Brills & Little Brills |
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Autumn 2008:
July 3, 2008, ICRR Cars East of Shops, The Last
Train to Greendale, Where in theWorld Was Car 611?, A
Hot
Time in Huntington, A Portfolio of Chicago Streetcars
in the
1940s and 1950s |
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Winter 2008:
North Shore Line’s Last Winters, A Ticket to
Everywhere–The Extraordinary Legacy of Chicago’s
Downtown
Railroad Passenger Terminals–Part 1, 100 Candles
for the CSL
#144, 1947 Blizzard, TM-MRK Racine and Kenosha Stations
Weather the 1947 Blizzard, A.W. Johnson’s Back
Yard,
Commuting in Winter–Chicago Style Past and Present,
Chicago’s
Streetcar Tunnels |
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Spring 2009:
Rules, Rules, and more Rules, Commuting in Your Personal
(Rail) Car, A Ticket to Everywhere – Chicago's
Downtown Passenger Terminals – Part 2, Chicago's
Tunnel Streetcars, Can You Top This?, and more! |
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Summer 2009:
Pioneer RDCs, Waukesha Beach, West Town's LaGrange Line,
Electroliner Mystery Solved, Motor-Lunch Counter Car...for the day, Off Broadway
in Aurora, and more! |
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Autumn 2009:
Amtrak – The Interurban of the 21st Century?,
Justifying the Investment in the Skokie Valley Route, On
Broadway – The Great Third Rail in Aurora, and more! |
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Winter 2009:
High Speed Rail, Towering Adventures, Joliet,
Plainfield and Aurora, Before METRA, Riding the Streets of Old Milwaukee, and
more! |
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Spring 2010:
Special Commemorative Issue No. 100 – (100
pages); Message from the Founder, GK 10-Year Remembrance, A Conversation with Samuel Insull, 1910 Wire Report, and more! |
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Summer 2010:
The Great Third Rail in Grand Central
or Randolph Street Stations?, Rapid Transit to Midway,
Part III, No Wonder I Like Streetcars, and more!
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Autumn 2010:
Amtrak – Trains of Amtrak's
Hiawatha Service, Special IRM CNS&M 749 16 page section,
Standing Room Only on the Indiana Railroad, and more! |
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Winter 2010:
Armour Yellow Under Wire, Operation
Lifesaver Limited,
Racine's First Interurban, Riding The Dolton Cannonball – The Chicago &
Western Indiana Railroad, They Said It Could Not Be Done - but it was, and more! |
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Spring 2011:
Raymond Street - Then and Now, Things Were Not the
Same after May 1 1971, Towering Adventures - Part 4, No Wonder I
Like Streetcars, It Has Been 70 years Since the Magic Interurban,
Insull's Smaller Empire, and more! |
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Summer 2011:
A Project in Excess of $4,000,000, The North Shore Line's
Last Days, The Midlothian & Blue Island Railway, Milwaukee's Never
Completed Subway, Glen Ellyn and the Chicago Aurora & Elgin - Part
II, Life in Glen Ellyn, Wire Report, and more!
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Autumn 2011:
The CA&E in Cook County - Then and Now, Tracing
Routes of the North Shore Line, CSL Car 4051 - The Laboratory PCC
Car and Its Predecessors, Roosevelt Road 0 June 14, 1966, Life With
The Jitterbugs, West Towns in Forest Park, and more! |
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Winter 2011:
Train Festival 2011 In Rock Island, Milwaukee's Impressive
600s, Towering Adventures – Part 5 – Randolph Street Tower, A Hall
Signal Primer, The Winter We Would Rather Forget, April 13, 1949 on
the East Troy and North Shore, The South Shore In 1937 – An
Introduction, Along Roosevelt Road – Summer 1949, and more! |
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Spring 2012:
Briergate - The Rest of the Story, Halstead
to Marshfield, The 4 track MET West Side Division,
The Chicago Freight Tunnels, Bluffton, and more! |
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Summer 2012:
Aurora to Chicago on the CA&E, North Shore on the "L,"
Following the Lake Street Forneys, Front Entrance - Center
Exit CSL Sedans, The BIG Puppy, and more!
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Autumn 2012:
My North Shore Line, Glen Ellyn and the CA&E, West Town's
Lake Street Line Heading for Notre Dame Football on the
South Shore Line in 1937, Wabash Railroad's Orland Park
Local, Indiana Railroad Past and Present, and more! |
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Winter 2012:
North Shore Line – The Final Day, Twenty First Street
Crossing, South Shore Freight 1937 Style, Old Elm
Road – Lake Forest – 1939-2007-2012, The Winter That
Wasn't, Riding the Streets of Old Milwaukee, and more! |
Dispatch
Series
Note: Dispatch Series publications also may
be ordered online from our Special
Publications page.
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Cooperation Moves the Public (Dispatch No. 1):
The story of the integrated
operations of the Chicago Aurora & Elgin and the Chicago Rapid
Transit Company and later the Chicago Transit Authority over the
Garfield Park Branch of Chicago's rapid transit system until
September 19, 1953. Trains were operated seconds apart "on
sight" as there were no signals and no radios. |
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Competing Rails: The Milwaukee Road's Legacy in
Evanston and Wilmette (Dispatch No. 2):
Read all about early rail competition on Chicago’s
North Shore, steam vs. electricity, and connecting
Evanston and Chicago by rail. This complex story is
full of business, political and financial intrigue. |
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One Hundred Years of Enduring Tradition – South
Shore Line (Dispatch No. 3):
Very different from all other railroad publications,
covers the reasons why "The Last Interurban" survived
and the history of the South Shore Line as told by
the people who were involved since 1926. |
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The Road of Service – Perspectives on the North
Shore Line (Dispatch No. 4):
This 100-page publication, published in 2012, brings
together a collection of diverse recollections by
Shore Line members and people of different backgrounds
who rode and/or lived along the Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee
Railroad. Collectively, it explains the influence
the North Shore Line had on our lives and why, 50
years after its January 1963 abandonment, the railroad
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Ordering Back Issues
Did you see a back issue or two that caught your attention? Then order one for your own collection! Just follow these simple steps!
- Print out the back issue brochure located here in PDF format.
(Download Acrobat Reader)
- Complete the order form on the back page of the brochure.
- Fill in your shipping address. Make your check or money order payable to the Shore Line Interurban Historical Society.
- Send your order to:
Shore Line
PO Box 425
Lake Forest IL 60045-0425
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From left: The Winter 2007,
Spring 2007, and Summer 2008 issues of First & Fastest. |
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