[milwaukee-electric] Re: 9th street

[Scott Greig]

I can vouch for 1540 and 1545; I have a picture of the 1540 at 10th St. yard, and a picture of the 1545 at Waukesha Gravel Pit in 1952, shortly before it was shipped to Ohio along with the body of 1138.  1536, I think, survives today down at St. Louis Museum of Transport.

Didn't Lew Martin (or somebody else from that era) have slides that suggested a total of *three* Birneys may have shown up?  I remember slides of the Birneys' delivery and unloading being shown at a TMER&THS meeting sometime in the 90s; something (either the car numbers or quantity delivered) caused a lot of commotion that night.

Scott.

--- On Fri, 3/18/11, Don L. Leistikow <DLeistikow at webtv.net> wrote:

> From: Don L. Leistikow <DLeistikow at webtv.net>
> Subject: [milwaukee-electric] Re: 9th street
> To: milwaukee-electric at lists.dementia.org
> Cc: emory1522 at wi.rr.com
> Date: Friday, March 18, 2011, 11:01 AM
> 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.           
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> 
> 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.             
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> 
> 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.         
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> 
> 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.         
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> 
> 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.         
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> 
> Don L .
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