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Author:  Sloan [ Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:24 am ]
Post subject:  August 1959/final run for Montreal streetcars

http://www.montrealgazette.com/August+1 ... story.html

No mention of the cars that moved across the border to their new home at Seashore Trolley Museum.

Sloan

Author:  Frank Hicks [ Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:52 am ]
Post subject:  Re: August 1959/final run for Montreal streetcars

Sloan wrote:
No mention of the cars that moved across the border to their new home at Seashore Trolley Museum.


There are several pieces of equipment from Montreal Tramways preserved in this country. Besides the four at Seashore there are four at Connecticut Trolley Museum and eight at Branford, including the only preserved street railway rotary snow plow and two different types of locomotives besides the various streetcars. Exporail certainly has by far the biggest collection, though.

Author:  Sloan [ Sat Aug 22, 2009 8:13 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: August 1959/final run for Montreal streetcars

http://www.montrealgazette.com/Riding+b ... story.html

Author:  Alexander D. Mitchell IV [ Sat Aug 22, 2009 10:39 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: August 1959/final run for Montreal streetcars

Sloan wrote:
No mention of the cars that moved across the border to their new home at Seashore Trolley Museum.


If I may be just a little cynical (oh, be quiet, you regulars...).......

It's apparently amazing the amount of stuff that lurks at Seashore with little or no acknowledgment. There's stuff in the "back lots/barns" at Seashore that "fills the gaps" in various other collections that basically hasn't seen the light of day in decades.

This apparently begats debates over whether said pieces are better served as minor players in a large collection off in Maine rather than in smaller operations elsewhere.

I'm almost wondering if it would be worth the while for the Baltimore or DC museums to snap up an Ohio car or two and try to trade it for the Baltimore or DC cars that lurk up in Kennebunkport.......

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