[milwaukee-electric] Re: Don's Depot Photos

Don Ross don0731 at gte.net
Sun Dec 26 22:31:36 EST 2010


Here are the Racine cars and the truck information
http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr378.htm
Here are the 925 thru 964 and will be upgraded upcoming in the near future.
http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr778.htm
Don R


At 09:21 PM 12/26/2010, you wrote:
>Don R and list:   You made brief refernce on your TMER&L pages, as to
>the entrance of second hand, double trucked cars from Massachusetts.
>
>
>As they had Brill 77-E 1 trucks, the refurbishing of the cars for
>service in Racine, included exchanging the Brill trucks with TMER&L's
>M-35-AB arch bar trucks.  The Brill trucks were then refitted to
>TMER&L's cars 925-930.  As a youngster, I once saw a car on Wisconsin
>Avenue with said Brill 77 E 1 trucks.  We may then conclude that the
>arch bar trucks were returned to the Milwaukee cars after Racine
>streetcar service ended in 
>1940.
>
>Car 39 was scrapped on December 28, 1939,  The balance, cars 35 - 38 and
>40, were scrapped on November 4, 1941.
>
>Don L.





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