page_title: Fox River Trolley Museum
section_title: Chicago area interurbans
hierarchical_section_title: Fox River Trolley Museum / Collection / Chicago area interurbans
caption_attribution_description: English: Aurora Elgin &amp; Fox River Electric. Company #5 at Fox River Trolley Museum
context_page_description: The Fox River Trolley Museum is a railroad museum in South Elgin, Illinois. Incorporated in 1961 as R.E.L.I.C., it opened in 1966 and became the Fox River Trolley Museum in 1984.
context_section_description: Aurora, Elgin and Fox River Electric Company (AE&FRE)
  Chicago, Aurora, and Elgin Railroad (CA&E)
  Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad (CNS&M)
  Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad (CSS&SB)
  AE&FRE #5, a 45-ton General Electric diesel, was the last locomotive to work on AE&FRV tracks. It was bought in 1945 to replace two electric locos, and hauled coal cars from the Illinois Central Railroad junction at Coleman to the State Hospital in Elgin until 1972.
  AE&FRE #7 (C), a flat car, was built in 1927 by the CNS&M as #1504, a pioneering piggyback car.
  AE&FRE #304 was a lightweight interurban car built by St. Louis Car Company in 1923. It was operated between Elgin and Aurora until passenger service was discontinued in 1935.
  CA&E #11 was built by J. G. Brill Company in 1910 as an express car and was converted to a line car in 1947.
  CA&E #20 was built by Niles Car Company in 1902. This wooden car is the oldest electric interurban car operating in the United States.
  CA&E #316 and 317 were two of six cars built by Jewett Car Company in 1913.
  CA&E #458 was one of 10 cars built by St Louis in 1945, some of the last interurban cars built in the U.S.
  CSS&SB #7 and 14 were built by Pullman Company in 1925. #14 was rebuilt and lengthened during WWII.
  CNS&M 715 was built by Cincinnati in 1926.
  CNS&M #756 was built by Standard Steel Car Company in 1930.
caption: AE&FRE #5
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