CERA's Fourth Friday Member Program For September 27th: PCC's and More

                     CERA Zoom Programs for September 27, 2024

7:00 PM by Live: In Person and Zoom

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

Chicago, IL

Transit Information

https://www.transitchicago.com/bus/60/

Chicago CTA Bus Route 60

David Wilson:  PCC’s and More as a Graduation Present

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

Zoom meeting Number 840 3996 5430               Passcode  572661

What better high school graduation present than a trip to Boston and Philadelphia to tour the transit systems? In the summer of 1967, fifty-seven years ago, I spent four days in Boston, a day riding the New Haven and Pennsylvania Railroads down the Northeast Corridor, then four days in Philadelphia at the Electric Railroaders Association convention. I will share my exhilarating experience of riding PCC’s, various El cars, Reading MU cars, Liberty Liners, Brilliners, Red Arrow Bullets, trolley-buses and more.

David Wilson has been infatuated with trains and trolley cars since infancy. As a teen-ager, he worked at the RELIC (now Fox River) Trolley Museum. He joined CERA at age sixteen, and has presented programs and newscasts in the nearly six decades since. He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in transportation. In his forty-eight career he worked for four railroads and a freight forwarder. He finished his career in 2015 as a bus route planner for the Chicago Transit Authority. He has authored a First & Fastest Interurbans Dispatch publication and various transportation history articles and has more writing projects in the works.

Come join us for an interesting evening in Chicago’s South Loop.

If interested give our new CERA Executive Director, Elmer Haneberg, a call (773) 972-0470 and maybe a few of us can get to the Berghoff for a quick dinner before the meeting !!

The program will be held in person in the 7th Floor Hospitality Room, 400 E. Randolph St., Chicago.