CERA’s January Zoom Programs

Friday, January 10, 2025, at 7:00 P.M. CST

Zoom Presentation

Meeting ID 814 9251 7167  

Passcode 880028

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81492517167?pwd=dm9DbnV1QlBtTll0WVZ0Um5HS3dodz09 

OR

CNS&M – North Shore Line as Seen by West Coast Railfans

and Earlier Historic Films

Presented by Harvey Laner

The fascination and excitement of the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad brought many out-of-area railfans lineside and on board to capture on film this exciting electric railroad while they could. 

Over the years, Harvey Laner borrowed and transferred the movies of several West Coast railfans, looking for Pacific Electric, Los Angeles Railway and Los Angeles Transit Lines movies.  He found plenty of those and also found North Shore Line movie scenes imbedded in those collections.  

Many scenes are taken at familiar locations but reflect the camera techniques and angles of the individuals that took them. This program takes that collection of movies along with Harvey’s own North Shore Line movies and places them in geographical order providing a trip from Milwaukee to Chicago with side trips on the Shore Line and to Mundelein.  

It’s a wonderful collection reflecting the admiration the North Shore Line had in the railfan community, even with those residing outside the upper Midwest.

This CERA Zoom meeting is open to all, members and guests. Be sure to join us!

Friday, January 24, 2025, at 7:00 P.M. CST

Live In Person Meeting

400 E. Randolph St., 7th Floor Hospitality Room

Chicago, IL

and

Zoom Presentation

Meeting ID  840 3996 5430       

Passcode 572661

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84039965430?pwd=NjVaWU1iaGs2bXpXRVRVbzdpQ3Yydz09 

OR

Tiny URL: 

http://tinyurl.com/CERA4thFriday

ANNUAL MEETING

and

Remembering the North Shore Line, Part 2

Beyond the Mainline

Presented by John Nicholson

In a reprise of last year’s Zoom program, we’ll go beyond the hourly limiteds and Electroliners on the Skokie Valley Route to Milwaukee and instead focus on the other sections of the system. We’ll begin with a quick trip over the “L” in order to travel over the North Shore’s original line on the Shore Line Route. Heavy riding, short trips, and frequent stops best described the passenger service on this route.

We’ll also travel over the North Shore’s only branch line, the route to Mundelein, where passenger service consisted of expresses to and from Chicago mixed in with a few lonely runs of the Lake Bluff-Mundelein shuttle. There was significant freight traffic over the line as the North Shore maintained carload freight connections with the EJ&E at Rondout and the Soo Line at Mundelein.

This program will also be presented on Zoom (CERA members only) for those members unable to attend the meeting in person.

If you have not yet paid your 2025 CERA Membership dues please do soon or contact me for more information:Elmer Haneberg

elmer@corpevent.com

(773) 972-0470

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