Springfield
Illinois Power Co.
203 is on Route 9 - Lawrence
- taken on September 18, 1932.
On January 24, 1933, the
Commonwealth & Southern Company purchased the IPC's Springfield operation
under the name Illinois Electric Power which formed the Springfield
Transportation Company (STC) to take over. On April 23, 1933, the
company split, with the STC taking over the transit operations and the
Central Illinois Light Company taking over the electric power service.
The STC did little more than realize that streetcar operations were not
profitable and gradually converted the remaining streetcar lines to buses,
with the last streetcar operating on December 31, 1937. IPC 203 spent its
entire life in Springfield. IPC mainly moved Birney streetcars around between
various properties over the ITS (usually late at night) - there were moves
of Birneys from Peoria (and back) to Champaign, and from Champaign to Decatur.
Caption data from Stephen
M. Scalzo
Bill Volkmer collection
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