[PRCo] Re: North Coast Rail News

[Herb Brannon]

>From "Cleveland's Transit Vehicles", by James Toman & Blaine Hays, c.1996,
from Page 157:
0136----Snow Sweeper, Double Truck, former Milwaukee, WI #B-33. Purchased
1951, renumbered in Cleveland to 01036, later renumbered into service car
fleet as 0136. Served St Clair Station 1952, moved to Denison Station and
scrapped there on 9/14/1956.

0137----Snow Sweeper, Double Truck, former Milwaukee, WI #B-35. Purchased
1951. Served Denison Station 1952, moved to Harvard Shops after streetcars
ended on 1'/24/1954. Rebuilt for use on CTS Rapid Transit and transfered to
Windermere 1953. After years of sitting idle and a fire in 1959, car was
retired 9/22/1960. Parts sold to Connecticut Electric Railway (museum??) on
10/4/1960.

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Ken and Tracie
<ktjosephson at embarqmail.com>wrote:

> My information is that Milwaukee sweepers B-34 & B-35 were sold to
> Cleveland
> on March 26th, 1951 and became 0136 & 0137 respectively.
> I have a color slide of 0137 among some rapid transit cars in Windermere
> Yard, no date (image attached) and also a black and white photo of the same
> sweeper elsewhere in Cleveland.
>
> K.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Herb Brannon" <hrbran at cavtel.net>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2009 11:09 AM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: North Coast Rail News
>
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> >I will have to research the snow sweepers. I have never seen any. Our
> > electric locomotive has a snow plow attached during the snow months (most
> > of
> > the year).
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Herb Brannon
On America's North Coast