Fox River Trolley Museum, Railway museum in South Elgin, Illinois, United States.
The Fox River Trolley Museum is a railway museum in South Elgin, Illinois, where antique electric streetcars and rail vehicles are displayed along a short track beside the Fox River. Several of the vehicles in the collection are still in working order and carry passengers along the route during the operating season.
The collection was founded in 1961 and grew into a site open to the public, built around the streetcar history of the region. The museum took on its current name in the mid-1980s.
The museum tells the story of electric streetcar travel and how people once moved through the region using these lines. Visitors can sit inside the original cars and experience what journeys felt like in those earlier times.
The museum operates mainly from spring through fall, when the vehicles run on a regular schedule. Comfortable shoes are helpful since visitors move around the grounds and step on and off the cars.
One of the cars in the collection is a wooden streetcar from the early 1900s that still runs and is among the oldest operating streetcars in the US. Riding it gives a direct sense of what travel felt like more than 100 years ago.
The community of curious travelers
AroundUs brings together thousands of curated places, local tips, and hidden gems, enriched daily by 60,000 contributors worldwide.
