[milwaukee-electric] Re: 9th street

[Don L. Leistikow]

Don R and list:   Actually, TMER&L's 607 was to be saved and was run
over to the the 15th street Team Tracks that fronted on St.Paul Avenue.                                   

Unfortunately the leader of the RHS, Lew Martin, was in the Army at that
time.  The remaining members notified him of the situation and LM got an
emergency furlough to come home and deal with this issue.                                                       

The scrappers, not knowing otherwise, began to scrap the 607, by
destroying one end platform and pulling out the truck.  Apparently,
someone told them of the ownership and disposition, too late.           

Upon Lew Martin's arrival, the car was now no longer moveable on own
wheels so, the car was scrapped.  I had heard that The Transport Company
(TMER&T) was disappointed that this car was lost.  If notified, perhaps
they could have funded movement of it, perhaps to a Car Station or to
the Cold Spring Shops.                      

Does anyone else, have a slant on this ?   

Jogging my memory, weren't the two KC Birney cars the 1536 and 1540 ?
Someone has a photo of these cars arriving on property, on flat cars
behind the TM Box Motor M 14, on the so-called 3rd rail (freight line)
at 20th street.             

Historically speaking, the 607 was one of the improved cars (601 - 608)
that were refitted for Cudahy~South Milwaukee service in the mid-1920's,
preceding the acquisition of the new articulated trains (1031-32 ~
1049-50) built by St.Louis Car Company in 1930 for that service.             

Don L .