A collection of colorful North Shore timetables and tickets. A 1937 edition (BELOW) boasts the North Shore’s speed records, while the final 1962 issue (RIGHT) was a bit more re- served. COLLECTION J.J. SEDELMAIER
eight hours. By 10:00 a.m. an estimat- ed 130,000 passengers left the train at the special Mundelein terminal. The North Shore’s “ferry-truck” freight service included such innova- tions as the first piggyback (trailer-on- flatcar) service on any U.S. railroad in 1926 — nearly 30 years before the “in- termodal” revolution took the nation’s freight railroads by storm. The improvements included new sta-
BELOW: The North Shore’s street running portion in Milwaukee was a stark contrast to its high-speed Skokie Valley Route.
tions. An ad that appeared in newspa- pers in 1925 called attention to “The North Shore Style” of architecture for stations and company buildings, de- scribing the style as “careful design by a single architect,” Arthur U. Gerber of Chicago.
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