page_title: Fox River Trolley Museum
section_title: Chicago Transit Authority and predecessors
hierarchical_section_title: Fox River Trolley Museum / Collection / Chicago Transit Authority and predecessors
caption_attribution_description: English: Chicago Transit Authority #6101 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: Chicago City Railway (CCRy)
  Chicago Rapid Transit Company (CRT)
  Chicago Surface Lines (CSL)
  
  Chicago Transit Authority (CTA)
  CCRy #L202 was built in the company shops in 1908. A small electric switcher for yard use, it was in service until 1958, when it was rebuilt and renumbered as S343. It was still in service in 1973.
  CCRy #S304 was built in the company shops in 1908 as a flatcar with a crane.
  CRT #4103 was built by Cincinnati Car Company in 1914 It is a “Baldy” with three doors per side. The last 4000-series cars were retired in 1973.
  CRT #4288 and 4415 were built by Cincinnati in 1922 and 1924. These are the newer “Plushie” body style, without center doors.
  CSL #6 was a street Railway Post Office built in 1891. This small single truck car is from the dawn of electric streetcars.
  CTA 5001 was one of four three car articulated trainsets delivered from Pullman Company (5003 and 5004 by St. Louis Car Company) in 1948 to test PCC components for rapid transit cars. Because of their high speed and large capacity they were used on the Skokie Swift exclusively between 1964 and 1985, where they were renumbered 51-54.
  CTA 6101-6102 were built by St Louis in 1950. They are a married set of cars which pioneered this arrangement, used on all future CTA cars, except the 1-50 series. These were the standard cars used from 1950 to 1975, the last were retired in 1992.
  CTA #40, 43, and 45 were built by St Louis in 1959. These are essentially double ended, single car versions of the 6000 series cars. Most were taken out of regular service in 1993.
caption: CTA #6101
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