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The North Shore Line

"The Fastest and Finest!"

Some North Shore Line photos and items from my collection.

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Photo taken at Milwaukee terminal on January 20th, 1963, final night of operations.

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A photo taken in Illinois.

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Milwaukee terminal.

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City car 354 is preserved at the Illinois Railway Museum.

Be sure to visit Laura Hedien's comprehensive North Shore Line web site at: www.northshoreline.com

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Parlor-observation car 411 was rebuilt into a coach during World War II. It survives today.

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A North Shore car in the "Silverliner" color scheme, on Milwaukee's streets.

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1961 view of the Milwaukee terminal.

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The North Shore Line provided a local streetcar sevice in Milwaukee until 1951.

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A North Shore train photographed in the vincinity of Waukegan, Illinois.

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One of the line's two "Electroliner" trainsets leaving the Milwaukee terminal.

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Car 752 at the tail end of a train.

The North Shore Line was a high speed inteurban railway connecting Chicago to Milwaukee. It was a part of Southeastern Wisconsin's transportation history, so I have added a page dedicated to this remarkable electric railway.