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The formative years: Villa Park, my home town; Doctor Geno E. Beery,Villa Park's pioneering woman physician; How I became a lifelong railfan; Father was a man of the automobile age; Grandfather's Watch; Railroad Time; Remembering the Chicago Great Western; Remembering the 'Ror'n' Elgin; Wabash Philo Station Destroyed
Pursuing Remains of the Glory Days: Riding the Electroliner; My first fan-trip; To a locomotive in winter; The boy who would buy a steam locomotive; In search of the eponymous Brewer, Illinois; The last all steam powered mixed train in America; Iron horses put out to pasture; Some thoughts on public travel then and now
Narrow Gauge Mania: D&RGW narrow gauge in the twilight years -- Part I; D&RGW narrow gauge in the twilight years -- Part II; Steam up the Rotary!; A rotary under the sun; Bob Richardson and the founding of the Colorado Railroad Museum; Is this any way to run a railroad museum? Part 1
Colorado Railroad Museum; Is this any way to run a railroad museum? Part 2
Colorado Railroad Museum; The Return of Colorado & Southern Number 9; Was the Georgetown Loop a poor design?; Riding the Sumpter Valley
Three-foot gauge steam in Eastern Oregon; Gold Rush Narrow Gauge
White Pass & Yukon Route; Rio Grande Southern narrow gauge
The spirit of this much loved, southwestern Colorado railway isn't dead, it just retired and moved to Southern California; Steaming Up
Looking on as Denver & Rio Grande Western Number 491 is readied for an evening on the Polar Express.
Narrow Gauge Steam Railways in the Land of their Origin: The Welsh Connection
The Ffestiniog Railway, Robert Fairlie and the origins of narrow gauge railroading in America; The Welsh Highland Railway
The newest and longest narrow gauge in Wales; The Talyllyn Railway
The world's first "preserved railway"; Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway
Standard Gauge Diversions: Royal Gorge Route; Steam Conquers La Veta Pass
Rio Grande Scenic Railroad
Fun while they lasted: Boxcar Camping -- Wilderness Stay by Steam Train; End of an Eastside tradition
Spirit of Washington dinner train; The Engine is Royal; the Scenery is Magnificent
The Royal Hudson and the Caraboo Prospector
Archeology: Corkscrew Gulch Turntable; The curse of Alpine
Guest Stories: The Significance of the Railroads; Locomotive Restoration
Thoughts on the Glory Days of architecture and interior design: Denver's Ghost Buildings; Denver Union Station Renovation; Who were those nabobs, the ones San Francisco's Nob Hill was named for?; Is there grammar to interior design?

Remembering the 'Ror'n' Elgin

© Glen Brewer

CA&E newspaper clippings

During the final years, I clipped and saved relevant newspaper articles from the Chicago Tribune and the Villa Park Argus.

The Chicago Tribune story of the end of all regular passenger service the next morning, July 4, 1957. Note that wooden cars were used until the end.

For awhile there was still hope.

Freight service didn't last much longer.

Meanwhile the competition was modernizing.

Also see Riding the Electroliner

Switchyard

Page 1 The 'Ror'n' Elgin as I remember it

Page 2 Wheaton (headquarters, shops, equipment and scrapping)

Page 3 Along the line (Elmhurst to Elgin after abandonment)

Page 4 Relics of the CA&E

Page 5 Newspaper clippings (this page)