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Over the years, students have used various modes of transportation to move their belongings to the Lisle campus

 
Trunks arrive at SPC via horse-drawn wagon
  
Trunks arrive at SPC via horse-drawn wagon
Circa 1918, horses and wagon from the Abbey farm were used to transport student trunks from the Lisle train station
The "Pullman Special" of 1925
  
The "Pullman Special" 1925
 

By 1925, students made use of the "Pullman Special". Here you see the St. Procopius band members transporting their instruments.

  
 
Students unpack car in 1986
  
 
Arriving on campus in 1986 - in the days before SUVs.
  
 
 
 
 
Arriving on campus Fall, 2007
  

Updated by J. Hopkins, September 10, 2007