Woodstock
Woodstock & Sycamore Traction Co.
Gas Motor car 701 (built by the McKeen Motor Car Company) at Genoa in the 1910 era.  Operation began on the line in 1911 using three McKeen gas-mechanical cars that were painted red on the 26.5 mile long single-track line that operated from Sycamore north to Marengo in north central Illinois.  The huge McKeen cars proved unsuitable for the line because of frequent derailments, and they were replaced with smaller gasoline Fairbanks-Morse cars.  Electrification was never installed as planned, and after a short futile history the line folded in 1918.
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