On July 25th the East Troy Railroad Museum broke ground on a new 7,000 square foot maintenance facility to help maintain and restore the organization's historic trolleys and interurban railroad cars.
The new facility is being built across from the Elegant Farmer store and deli near Mukwonago, Wis. It will be 128 feet long by 56 feet wide and will allow for easy access around -- and above -- an entire railroad car. Cars will enter the facility on rails. The facility will also contain a machine shop and wood shop and it will be temperature controlled. It will also include a pit below the rails, allowing volunteers to work underneath the cars more easily.
The museum hopes to turn the current maintenance and storage barn in East Troy into more of a display facility for the organization's rolling stock -- making more of the collection available for public viewing.
Separately, the museum recently completed restoration work on two of its Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad interurban cars -- No. 9 and No. 13. Both cars are now back in excursion service.
For more information on the maintenance facility and restoration work, visit our web site at http://www.easttroyrr.org and click on the "projects" tab.
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