The Evanston History Center invites you to take a narrated tour through the history of the railroads, street railways, electric lines, and electric interurban that have served Evanston over the years.

The tour will be conducted on a chartered CTA train comprised of vintage 1970s equipment. We’ll ride the Purple Line to and from the Loop with a side trip on the Yellow Line.

While we are riding, Graham Garfield and Bruce Moffat, experts from the Shore Line Interurban Historical Society, will narrate Evanston’s rail-transit history and relate it to sites on the trip. Shore Line is the authoritative source for Chicagoland rail-transit history, publishing the journal First and Fastest and other special studies.

The tour starts and ends at the Linden CTA station, 349 Linden Avenue, Wilmette, IL, 60091 

Advance ticket purchase is required. To purchase tickets, please visit: www.evanstonhistorycenter.org/all-events Admission is $75 for EHC members; $85 for non-members. Membership sign-up is available at www.evanstonhistorycenter.org.