[milwaukee-electric] Re: National City Lines.

[Scott Greig]

Let's also remember that the passenger cars (streetcars and interurbans) had a lot of wood body components, such as window frames, body posts and doors--all of which either saw a lot of use and abuse or would be easy casualties of even a minor collision.  And given that much of the Cold Spring machinery now at IRM was made for volume production instead of piecework, clearly they were going through a lot of wood maintaining such a large fleet of cars.

--- On Tue, 3/29/11, Don L. Leistikow <DLeistikow at webtv.net> wrote:

> From: Don L. Leistikow <DLeistikow at webtv.net>
> Subject: [milwaukee-electric] Re: National City Lines.
> To: milwaukee-electric at lists.dementia.org
> Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 2:15 AM
> Gary S and list:  Yes, Gary...
> the Company had working wood shops in the
> Car Stations and, of course, at the major Cold Spring
> Shops.             
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> There were several wooden cars that were in service... to
> the end.  The
> Line cars; A 1, A 2 and A 3, plus the D 21, D 22 and D 23
> all had wooden
> bodies.          
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> Even the B series Sweepers... B 1 through B 49 and the C
> series Snow
> Plows C 1, C 2 and C 3 were wood bodied.   
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> Then remember that the streetcars and Interurban cars had
> wood roofs,
> covered with canvas.         
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> Don L.   
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