[milwaukee-electric] Re: KMCL/National City Lines.

[Don L. Leistikow]

Group:   As I was working at the GE Apparatus Service Shop, 940 W.
St.Paul, I ate my lunch while visiting with Bill Schwerin... at his last
stand office in a container car body next to the deck behing the then GE
Building.                                

He said that Jay Maeder was so anxious to acquire the remaining linss to
Waukesha and Hales Corners that, he was easily enticed to accept any
arrangement toward purchase.  As it was, Jay did get the Waukesha
operation from Greyhound and he needed the 1031-32 to 1049-50, duplex
trains to handle rush-hour heavy traffic.  The first eight of these
trains were fitted with field tappers, the last two trains didn't get
them.  Why Not?  

Bill Schwerin told me that Jay was too anxious and The Transport Company
took advantage of that.  Bill said that Jay could have had much more,
than what he got.  Jay was so eager, that he accepted the liability of
the Soldier's Home accident.      

Don L .