From ktjosephson at embarqmail.com Fri Jun 5 10:18:30 2009 From: ktjosephson at embarqmail.com (Ken and Tracie) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 07:18:30 -0700 Subject: [milwaukee-electric] East Troy Railroad Museum Event on June 13th and 14th References: Message-ID: Hello my name is Chris Sacharski and I would like to forward this invitation to you and the members of your Milwaukee Transit discussion group. Thank you for your consideration, Chris Sacharski Volunteer East Troy Railroad East Troy Railroad Museum, Inc. PO Box 943 ? East Troy, WI 53120 ? (262) 642-3263 ? www.easttroyrr.org We cordially invite you to attend a special event at the East Troy Railroad Museum on June 13th and 14th. The Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company Car 846, an electric streetcar will be rededicated to service. After being built at the St. Louis Car Company in St. Louis, Missouri, Car 846 was transported to the Cold Spring Shops in Milwaukee where it began operating on the streetcar lines of The Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company in 1920. The car served the city until the end of streetcar service on Route 10 in 1958. Car 846 after retirement went to the Kentucky Railroad Museum where it was involved in many floods. Later the car was moved to Appleton, Wisconsin and went under restoration. The car then moved to East Troy in 2002. Now with the restoration essentially complete, the car is once again ready to carry passengers at the East Troy Railroad Museum. Car 846 is very popular due to its local appeal. As one of only five remaining streetcars from Milwaukee, and the only actively in passenger service, it represents Milwaukee's and Southeastern Wisconsin proud traction heritage. June 13th and 14th will be a time of great celebration in East Troy, and your attendance will add to its significance. The hours will be 10am to 5pm both days. We are planning a dedication at 10:30am Saturday June 13th, after which the car will be available for rides, pictures and reminiscing. We hope you will be able to come and participate in this event as we relive a form of transportation that was used by our parents and grandparents. Watch Car 846 restart its service at Wisconsin's Historic Landmark Railroad. Thank you for your consideration and please feel free to contact us with any questions at 262.642.3263 Thank you, Norman Carlson President East Troy Electric Railroad Please RSVP by June 10th 2009 By E-mail: bev at easttroyrr.org By Phone: 262.642.3263 From x779 at webtv.net Sun Jun 14 22:31:03 2009 From: x779 at webtv.net (mrcooby) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:31:03 -0000 Subject: [milwaukee-electric] Kenosha City Council meeting Monday: Message-ID: Hey, all ... On Monday night, June 15th, some of us are addressing the regular 7 PM bimonthly meeting of the Kenosha City Council to observe the Ninth Anniversary of the revived Kenosha Electric Railway on June 17th. Location: 2nd Floor, the Kenosha Municipal Building, 625 52nd Street, about six blocks from the Metra Station. If you'd like to speak, please arrive by 6:30 PM. Those who just wish to attend and show support may arrive at 7. Some are wearing Kenosha Streetcar Society shirts. (We plan to get together afterwards.) The meeting will be televised on Kenosha cable channel 25. Happy Ninth Anniversary! (The planning for the KERy super-gala Tenth Anniversary, has already begun!) From x779 at webtv.net Thu Jun 25 12:00:11 2009 From: x779 at webtv.net (Louis Rugani) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:11 GMT Subject: [milwaukee-electric] Transit Ridership Still Booming - Except In Milwaukee Message-ID: I think Mark Belling and Charley Sykes get way too much credit/blame for Milwaukee's anti-rail reputation. Scott Walker, on the other hand, does deserve much of the slings and arrows, in my opinion. http://thepoliticalenvironment.blogspot.com/2008/12/transit-ridership-still-booming-except.html =Lou= ~~~~~~~~~~ **-=\/=-** ~~~~~~~~~~ The opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity.  Robert Anthony From ktjosephson at embarqmail.com Fri Jun 26 10:58:16 2009 From: ktjosephson at embarqmail.com (Ken and Tracie) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:58:16 -0700 Subject: [milwaukee-electric] Photo Date? References: Message-ID: <36915CC3D00F4888A30C7335230CFEDE@KTJosephson> Somebody from the Wauwatosa Historical Society asked me when this photo was taken. You may notice that Wauwatosa's "Little Red Store" (Jacobus Oil) was painted yellow in this particular image: http://www.davesrailpix.com/mke/htm/mke447.htm I have no idea when this shot was taken. The late Dave Mewhinney asked me to identify the location a few years before he passed away. The store was painted red in the images I have from 1957-'58. Thanks in adavnce for your replies. K. From ktjosephson at embarqmail.com Fri Jun 26 11:03:10 2009 From: ktjosephson at embarqmail.com (Ken and Tracie) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:03:10 -0700 Subject: [milwaukee-electric] Re: Photo Date? Message-ID: <6A2C6F954430403E9A27ED5C35F8946A@KTJosephson> A couple of clues: The streetlight in the background was installed around 1952 and WEPCO started using vertical spools for their distribution circuits (in place of the spreader brackets and conventional crossarm pin-type insulators) around the same time. K. From DLeistikow at webtv.net Fri Jun 26 23:48:59 2009 From: DLeistikow at webtv.net (Don L. Leistikow) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:48:59 -0500 Subject: [milwaukee-electric] Re: Photo Date? In-Reply-To: "Ken and Tracie" 's message of Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:58:16 -0700 Message-ID: <21804-4A4596AB-82@storefull-3171.bay.webtv.net> Ken: I need a couple of days to I.D. the color of the Jacobus Building. Am glad that the photo was taken in the Winter Season. Very few photos like that. Anyway, I have some slides of this building, taken by Russ Porter, on or close to the final day (evening) of operation. Must look at other slides at hand and there are lots of 800's and 900's to go through. Most of my slides are in trays... by car number. Therefore, I have more than one tray to go through, i.e., I have two trays (100 count) of 800's and three trays of 900's. Sorry that we lost Dave Mewhinney. I had dialoged with him over corrections or additional commentary. Nice guy.. he was. Don