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 Post subject: Re: Help Needed With Identifying Electric Railway Carbodies
PostPosted: Sun Oct 21, 2018 4:59 pm 

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Brian Norden wrote:
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In Wilmington, CA: Pacific Electric Birney "On roof of garage"
I would like to see that! Haha
I had forgotten about that one until I read the post. I recall hearing about the car and might have seen a picture -- now many, many, many years ago. My memory having been jogged, recalls that a railfan of sorts had acquired the car body and used it as a study or den or room for his railroad collection. No additional information.

50 years+ a member of Orange Empire.

Brian, Thanks for the information. interesting to know the story behind this car. If it was acquired by a railfan of sorts, maybe it still exists. It would be interesting to find it and add it to the list.


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 Post subject: Re: Help Needed With Identifying Electric Railway Carbodies
PostPosted: Fri Mar 27, 2020 11:55 pm 

How about another?

1116 West Monroe Street, Alexandria, IN

About a decade ago I did a google search on old trolleys being used as houses and this was part of a discussion on some history board. It might be an old THI&E car.

http://indianarailroads.org/board/index ... pic=116.20

Notice the anti climber.

Google streets shows the interurban ends if you wander back and forth.

Charles


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 Post subject: Re: Help Needed With Identifying Electric Railway Carbodies
PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 2020 1:33 pm 

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Here is another that is probably not mentioned El Paso City Lines double truck lightweight (often referred to as a double truck Birney) #54. Also shows several other cars which look like they might have been on their way to preservation (whether they still exist I can't say) and PCC 1510 on display in the city. All shown in the video below:
https://youtu.be/8dqsdqLij2Q


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 Post subject: Re: Help Needed With Identifying Electric Railway Carbodies
PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 2020 2:22 pm 

Thank you for posting that El Paso video. Old car, truck, and motorcycle connoisseur scour the southwest for such barn finds. Who knows? Maybe someone might take one of those desert survivors on as a project.


  
 
 Post subject: Re: Help Needed With Identifying Electric Railway Carbodies
PostPosted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 1:27 am 

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This old car from Spokane is a mystery:
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aSXF9tL_0VM/XoLTdYDPpZI/AAAAAAAAWt4/5aB_olzF0WASWIVX-YC_5MPFIzNkFs7iACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/51276008_2932291426784815_5624822134439149568_n.jpg

Long gone from the spot seen here:
http://www.bigbendrailroadhistory.com/2020/03/spokane-united-railways-streetcar-in.html

Dan


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 Post subject: Re: Help Needed With Identifying Electric Railway Carbodies
PostPosted: Tue May 25, 2021 2:11 am 

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Don't forget the second NW Pennsylvania car at 440 Baldwin street in Meadville.

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6527744 ... 384!8i8192

I found it in a nice biography of Chick Siebert.

https://cambridgetrolley.org/c-l-%22chick%22-siebert


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 Post subject: Cortlan: Help Needed With Identifying Electric Railway Carbo
PostPosted: Sat Jul 08, 2023 1:03 am 

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Hi,

The Cortland Box Motor link is disabled. But I saved the article from Archive.org.


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 Post subject: Cortland Freight Motor in NY.
PostPosted: Sat Jul 08, 2023 1:06 am 

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1472 Ayers Road, Homer, NY.

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.6924566 ... &entry=ttu


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 Post subject: Green Bay Trolleys at Pullman Point
PostPosted: Sat Jul 08, 2023 1:23 am 

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https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/9606 ... U&mmlb=g,1

There are a couple of Birneys and an Evanston car in Door County Wisconsin. The owner sent me pictures on Facebook and has since deleted his account so I can't recover them.


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 Post subject: Re: Help Needed With Identifying Electric Railway Carbodies
PostPosted: Wed Jul 12, 2023 2:02 pm 
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There were a few in Belchertown Massachusetts https://www.facebook.com/hampshire.towi ... tid=6aamW6


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 Post subject: Re: Help Needed With Identifying Electric Railway Carbodies
PostPosted: Wed Jul 12, 2023 8:09 pm 

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I thought the one literally in my backyard had been mentioned here before, but maybe not. A notable landmark dive in Akron, Ohio reportedly is built around an old streetcar body, perhaps Akron Transit, but maybe not (and many Akron Transit cars were bought second-hand anyway). Bob's Hamburg on East Av., just off of I-76 has been slinging burgers under 5 or 6 different owners for over 80 years. It's a tiny place, but I have fond memories of it from my childhood, and it outlived the Mickey D's that was built across the street from it by several decades. It's been so modified that I didn't realize the front of the building was a streetcar body until I saw an article in the Akron Beacon Journal a couple of years ago on it's 80th anniversary in business, but it makes sense if you go in and see the clearances and layout.


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 Post subject: Re: Help Needed With Identifying Electric Railway Carbodies
PostPosted: Fri Sep 13, 2024 11:26 am 

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Pullman Point Trolleys!

There's a bunch of trolleys that are hidden on a road in Door County Wisconsin. I think the Red Car is an Evanston style car and the green one is a Birney. They're probably from Green Bay. I thought that some of them were double truck birneys but W. Roberts pointed out to me that the double truck birneys were sold to Virginia and Lehigh Valley. So some of these cottages probably are composed of several street cars.

Charles


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