The Seashore Trolley Museum has been funded by a TEA-21 grant for the re-building of their 100 year old wooden steeple cab locomotive.

The museum web site www.trolleymuseum.org has a special section for Curatorial Reports on the work.

The locomotive was complete but badly deteriorated. It has been on the STM property since 1949, for many of the years without inside storage.

i had thought that they were going to lift the cab off the car and re-construct the whole thing. But it appears that they are going to be able to save a lot of original historic fabric.

And does anyone know where the other wooden steeple car may be found?

Here is hoping that other museums have the determination and luck to get more of those grants into the railroad preservation scene.

Ted Miles

Seems to me that Railways to Yesterday has a wooden steeple cab, dating to original ownership by the Chicago and Joliet Electric. Or is that a sweeper?

Bob Kutella

Yeah, it's a sweeper that looks like a small wooden steeplecab.

There's also BCER #S103, a homebuilt wooden steeplecab dating to 1911 which was rebuilt in the 1950's for use as a snow plow. It's privately owned and currently stored adjacent to the Northwest Railway Museum in Washington state. Another wooden steeplecab, Milwaukee Electric L5, was scrapped by TWERHS in the 1980's.