by Lucius Kwok
Have there only been two Electroliner / Liberty Liner trainsets ever built?
I've been able to find out about one that's been restored to the Electroliner livery at the IRM and another in storage in Rockhill, still in Liberty Liner colors.
Excerpt from Electroliner wikipedia page:
I've been able to find out about one that's been restored to the Electroliner livery at the IRM and another in storage in Rockhill, still in Liberty Liner colors.
Excerpt from Electroliner wikipedia page:
The Electroliner was a passenger train service of the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad that ran between Chicago, Illinois, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Service was provided using a pair of streamlined electric multiple unit interurban trains built by St. Louis Car Company in 1941.If you see any errors there, post them here and I can edit the wiki page, or you can edit it yourself.
Each trainset is made up of four sections: two end units and two center units. Each end unit is divided at the side doors into a Luxury Coach, which seats 30, and a Smoking Coach section, which seats 10 and also has a restroom. Each door had steps and a trap door for boarding from both street level and high-level platforms. One center unit is a coach unit that seats 40, and the other center unit is a Tavern Lounge which seats 26.
In 1963, the Electroliners were sold to the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company, also known as the Red Arrow Lines, and the two trainsets were renamed Liberty Liners. They were fitted with third-rail contact shoes to operate on the Philadelphia and Western Railroad tracks, which used third rail and high-level platform stations between Upper Darby, Pennsylvania and Norristown, where they switched to overhead trolley wire on its way to Lansdale, Bethlehem, and Allentown. The Liberty Liners were retired around 1979.