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http://www.irm.org/gallery/TMERL1129/aab I didnt know IRM had a TMERL car! Caption says the car is wearing the wrong number and wrong paint scheme. Too bad, thats my favorite paint! What should that car look like? IRM actually has two TM interurban cars, the only two to be preserved, coach 1129 (pi...

What is the general condition, inside and out, of cars 233 and 234? Are either operable? What about the sole remaining sleeper Peoria? Same questions. Berths still intact, etc? It's been a while since I was in the Peoria, but I am 90% certain that the interior of the car is substantially intact. It...

A pretty comprehensive website detailing surviving rolling stock and structures in the state of Oklahoma, including a lot of interurban structures and car bodies, can be found here: http://ok.railfan.net/pages/oklist.html

aline1969 wrote:Car 41 makes the Lexington Minuteman newspaper

Another was the Macomb & Western Illinois (later known as the Macomb Industry & Littleton), which was built in 1903 as an interurban but was not electrified. Original equipment included a pair of cars bought from St. Louis Car Company, designed as interurbans and meant to later be fitted wit...

Mr rt wrote:(didn't try to find either you or Frank Hicks, we just did a tourist/visitor thing.

Did the E44's (4465 in particular) operate at any time after 1983? Did NJT and/or Amtrak use them in service or were they just stored?

Frank Hicks

In reply to octr202, in the photo linked to ( http://transit.nerail.org/showpic/?photo=2009060422561116399.jpg ), the car in the left background is Southern Iowa freight motor 100 (sold to Pennsylvania Trolley Museum for parts) and the car in the right background is Cleveland center-door car 1225 (s...

Not sure where you read that - I only found a mention on the 261 website that the 4449 would be going from Minneapolis to Chicago, and the 4449's own website says that it will be going via Milwaukee:

http://www.sp4449.com/routemappng.png

Thanks for the replies. The combine in the photo, the one I'm researching, was definitely not preserved; it is known to have been scrapped in 1931. I'm just wondering whether there are any illustrated rosters, or even photo albums, in print showing the wooden cars in use on the LIRR around the 1890's.

Does anyone know of any sources of info on LIRR passenger cars from the late 1800's? I'm trying to determine the heritage of a combine ( http://gelwood.railfan.net/misc-m/mwi-s4bwiu.jpg ) that may have been ex-LIRR and am looking for any illustrated rosters that might be in print. I'm looking for a ...

I don't know what the reroute is, but the WB California Zephyr just flew by my office in Elmhurst on the CNW West Line with a UP unit on the point. Not something you see every day on this line!

Looks like the car has been through some major changes over time. I suppose they would have added the center door when the car was changed to a one-man design? Judging from the photos linked in your original post, I'm 99.99% certain that the "center door" was added after the car was conve...

There are a few photos of cars of this type on the Dave's Rail Pix site: Car 179 in 1941: http://www.davesrailpix.com/odds/pa/htm/rsr29.htm Car 180, year unknown: http://www.davesrailpix.com/odds/pa/htm/rsr12.htm Car 182 in 1941: http://www.davesrailpix.com/odds/pa/htm/rsr17.htm Note that it looks l...

But I'm looking for others who are out there who can talk about operation, safety, switches, etc. I wouldn't consider myself an expert, but I have some knowledge of the operation of these cars from experience at IRM. Electric switches in the street, which I believe most that were used in regular se...