Front Cover: On March 27, 1948, North Shore Line employees went on a 91-day strike over an
unresolved wage dispute. Service was not restored until June 30. The strike and subsequent wage
adjustments put a financial strain on the company as the North Shore also lost track rental revenue when the Chicago Transit Authority converted its Skokie shuttle rail operation to bus on
March 26. Equipment sat motionless at Highwood and rust collected on the rails while
negotiations dragged on. Highwood would not see such a vast array of equipment gathered in the
yards again until final abandonment in January 1963. —Ken Wilkins photo, Loren Martens
collection
When Will My Next Issue of First & Fastest Arrive?
Shore Line strives to have issues of First & Fastest to members by the first day of each season. International delivery of print issues may take longer. Here is our schedule for the upcoming year: Issue Will Arrive by: Winter Edition December 21 Spring Edition March 20 Summer Edition June 21 Autumn Edition September 22 |
The Spring 2023 issue of First & Fastest includes:
Shore Line Exhibits at Trainfest 2022 by Shore Line Staff American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners’ Labor Day 2022 Weekend Convention in Chicago by Norman Carlson My Love Affair with The ITS and Its Postcards by Skip Gatermann Metra’s Holiday Train by Norman Carlson Chicagoland’s Most Elusive Electric Railway—Northwest Station by John Smatlak Indiana Railroad’s 427-Series Cars by Norman Carlson From Streetcar to Super-Interurban ... Remembering the North Shore Line by John Nicholson CSL/CTA Streetcar Car Routes 1945-1958 by Richard F. Begley A Car of Questionable Character: The Milwaukee Electric’s Peculiar Streetcar by Edward Tobin CTA News by Shore Line Staff Running on a New Railroad in Michigan City A Photo Tour by Bruce Stahl, Gary R. Clark and Michael W. Franke. Captions by Norman Carlson A Moving Event by Norman Carlson and Bon French Insull’s Smaller Empire conducted by Eric Bronsky |
