CENTRAL ELECTRIC RAILFANS' ASSOCIATION

A not-for-profit technical & educational society, established in 1938

Upcoming Programs

Friday, August 9, 2024, 7:00 PM CT Harvey Laner's Midwest Traction Review; Friday, September 11, 2024, 7:00 PM CT; Friday, September 27, 2024 In Person and on Zoom, 7:00 PM

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CERA’s Second Friday

Zoom Program

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Midwest Traction Review - Part 2

Presented by Harvey Laner

Friday, July 11, 2025, at 7:00 P.M. CDT

Midwest Traction Review No.2 shows the operations of streetcar and interurban operations throughout the American Midwest, primarily from the 1930s to the 1950s. The movie clips that make up his program are from Harvey Laner’s vast collection amassed from the

collections of numerous railfans from the late 1990s to the present.

The program covers:

 Cleveland Interurban Railroad

 Shaker Heights Rapid Transit

 Cleveland Railway Company

 Cleveland Union Terminal Railroad

 Cleveland RTA

 Detroit Department of Street Railways

 Hutchison & Northern

 Kansas City, Kaw Valley & Western

 Southern Iowa Utilities

 Des Moines and Central Iowa

 Des Moines Railway Company

 Ft Dodge, Des Moines and Southern

 Omaha and Council Bluffs

 Union Electric Railway

 Kansas City Public Service

 Sand Springs Railway Company

NO CERA 4th Friday in July In Person or Zoom Presentation

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

Let us know by email if you have questions at:

ceraoffice@gmail.com

For more railfan programming listings, visit:
http://www.railcc.org/events.html

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Since 1938, Central Electric Railfans’ Association has presented programs, published books, and hosted fan trips.

In 2024 CERA continued its successful online programs on Zoom, offering both “open-to-all” Zoom programs and programs marketed exclusively to members and prospective members. We also returned to our in-person programming at a new location and hosted a fan trip to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

We very proudly edited, published and produced the critically received Transit in the Triangle, Volume 2 which was mailed to all of our 2019 Members. Our goal now is to get out two books in the next 16 months to 2020 and 2021 members!!

We plan on making 2025 even better. Look forward to new things on Zoom and in our in-person programming, news on upcoming CERA-penned books and other featured products in our store and special deals on older titles in our inventory.

Please consider contributing to these efforts by renewing your membership, or becoming a new member. You can pay for your membership by check or credit card and online via our web site: www.cera-chicago.org/join. We accept PayPal.

CERA 2025 members will receive a hardbound book on an electric railway subject as a membership benefit. You can count on our publications to continue a long tradition of excellence in historical and contemporary electric railway research, while also being both informative and entertaining.

Central Electric Railfans' Association is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. P.O. Box 503, Chicago, IL 60690