I'm looking for order lists or sales information for the Georgia Car & Locomotive Company of Atlanta, Georgia. I have no idea whether such information exists, but if anyone knows of such records I would really appreciate any leads. I'm specifically looking for data concerning a particular car bought (possibly used) from GC&L by the Macomb & Western Illinois Railway in late 1908. Thanks!

Frank Hicks

Preserved North American Electric Railway Cars
F-Hicks@wiu.edu

> I'm looking for order lists or sales
> information for the Georgia Car &
> Locomotive Company of Atlanta, Georgia. I
> have no idea whether such information
> exists, but if anyone knows of such records
> I would really appreciate any leads. I'm
> specifically looking for data concerning a
> particular car bought (possibly used) from
> GC&L by the Macomb & Western
> Illinois Railway in late 1908. Thanks!

> Frank Hicks

Frank:

Hope you find what you're looking for on GC&LC. But for the record, what can you tell us about the M&WI? What is an interurban? How many miles did it operate? And how long did it last?

Thanks, from someone who is interested in old (long gone) railroads.

Les Beckman (Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum/North Judson, Indiana)


midlandblb@cs.com

> Hope you find what you're looking for on
> GC&LC. But for the record, what can you
> tell us about the M&WI? What is an
> interurban? How many miles did it operate?
> And how long did it last?

The M&WI was planned as an interurban but never electrified. It was built in 1903, went bankrupt in 1910 and was sold to a scrapper about 1912, but in 1913 local farmers bought it back from the scrapper and reinstated service as the Macomb Industry & Littleton. It ran about 20 miles between those three cities and finally was abandoned in 1928. Most of the corporate records were destroyed in a fire in 1918, but all the surviving records are in the library at Western Illinois University so I've been researching the line here.

Frank Hicks

Preserved North American Electric Railway Cars
F-Hicks@wiu.edu