[milwaukee-electric] Re: 9th street

[Don Ross]

I think I did the info on the Birneys at the same time Scott commented.
The St Louis car is 1533.
http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr2523.htm
The reason I hadn't mentioned this site is because I haven't scanned 
the pictures in Milwaukee.  I had extra prints which I sold on ebay a 
few years ago, but I didn't do it into the site.  I guess I have to 
dig more stuff.  I think I am now at the level of 20% used and 80% 
material to do.  It keeps me busy instead hanging around at the bar.
Don


At 11:18 AM 3/18/2011, you wrote:
>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.