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The Summer 2010 issue of First & Fastest includes:

The Great Third Rail in Grand Central or Randolph Street Stations?
by Norman Carlson

The Story of the "Tugs"
by Mitch Markovitz

Rapid Transit to Midway, Part III:
Orange Line Service Begins and Grows
by Graham C. Garfield

Local Train Number 18’s Second Section
The Electroliner – The Rest of the Story
by Len Garver

NICTD’s New South Shore Line Train Schedules – An Insider’s Perspective
by Joe Black

No Wonder I Like Streetcars
by Raymond (Ray) DeGroote Jr.

Streetcars, Flowers and Photographs (1.9 MB PDF)
Plus Bonus Content
by George E. Kanary

Trolley Fever – Suburban Electric Road
Hinsdale, by Timothy H. Bakken © 1976 by J. Peter Teschner, Timothy H. Bakken, Kristi Cook and the Hinsdale Doings

SET ’EM UP – Physics and Artistry Meet on the Scoots
by Philip A. Weibler

End of a Milwaukee Transit Tradition
by Larry Sakar

Wire Report
by Shore Line staff

Issue 100 in Print Production

Insull’s Smaller Empire
Conducted by Eric Bronsky

  First & Fastest, Summer 2010  
  Front Cover: The Loop skyline provides a striking backdrop as a four-car train of Orange Line-assigned 3200-series cars, led by car 3273, poses on the 55th Street Overpass on May 5, 1993, just shy of six months before the line entered revenue service.—CTA photo
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