Items | Digital Collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

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Cable Car
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The cable car is fifteen feet tall, eight feet wide, and twenty feet long. There are six two-person seats on each side. Its wooden seats are similar to bench seats found in a church. The cable car is made of wood-top and bottom with open sides. A hanging kerosene lamp is used to light the interior. There are also running boards twelve feet long on both sides. The cable car i...
Welded rail, Chicago Great Western Railroad
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
Pioneer Zephyr
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A streamlined stainless steel high-speed motor three-car train, powered by a 600 horsepower diesel engine. The train is 197 feet long. It weighs ninety-eight tons.
Dining car, Chicago and North Western Railway
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
The Green Diamond, Illinois Central Railroad
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Drawing, color
Chicago and Alton train
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
Rail crossing in St. Charles, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
Texas engine #854, Chicago Great Western Railroad
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
First diesel engine of the Chicago and Alton Railroad
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
Illinois Central Locomotive, The 'Mississipi'
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The 'Mississippi' is a relatively small locomotive, even for its day. The locomotive's smokestack is twelve feet high, seven feet wide, and fourteen feet long. Behind the locomotive's engine is a flatcar that is seven feet wide and eight feet long. This flat car carried the locomotive's firewood and water. Both the locomotive and flatcar are painted black with white trim. Th...
New York Central Steam Locomotive #999;
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The New York Central 999 steam locomotive and fuel car measure approximately sixteen feet tall, ten feet wide, and forty-eight feet long. The driving wheels are seven feet, two inches tall. The locomotive and fuel car weigh 124,000 pounds. The locomotive, with two driving wheels on each side, is painted black with silver trim, and has brass components.
Museum and Santa Fe Railroad Model
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Museum and Santa Fe Railroad exhibit consists of 1,200 feet of track running through a 3,000 square-foot landscape representing, the Great Plains, the Arizona desert and Grand Canyon, and California. Sprawled across the model landscape are a suburban village, an elevated highway, a commercial grain elevator, a cement factory, an oil field and refinery, an orange grove, a...
Piggyback' service, Chicago Great Western Railroad
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
Railroad porters, Chicago and North Western Railway
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w

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Cable Car

Welded rail, Chicago Great Western Railroad

Pioneer Zephyr

Dining car, Chicago and North Western Railway

The Green Diamond, Illinois Central Railroad

Chicago and Alton train

Rail crossing in St. Charles, Illinois

Texas engine #854, Chicago Great Western Railroad

First diesel engine of the Chicago and Alton Railroad

Illinois Central Locomotive, The 'Mississipi'

New York Central Steam Locomotive #999;

Museum and Santa Fe Railroad Model

Piggyback' service, Chicago Great Western Railroad

Railroad porters, Chicago and North Western Railway

Cable Car

Welded rail, Chicago Great Western Railroad

Pioneer Zephyr

Dining car, Chicago and North Western Railway

The Green Diamond, Illinois Central Railroad

Chicago and Alton train

Rail crossing in St. Charles, Illinois

Texas engine #854, Chicago Great Western Railroad

First diesel engine of the Chicago and Alton Railroad

Illinois Central Locomotive, The 'Mississipi'

New York Central Steam Locomotive #999;

Museum and Santa Fe Railroad Model

Piggyback' service, Chicago Great Western Railroad

Railroad porters, Chicago and North Western Railway