Go to Railimages and then go to page 28 and look at the album for Karl Andrews and you can view some vintage interuban pix there. I cant seem to be able to copy them to this forum. I will give you a legend in another post. CT
First group of 4 photos... top left... Electroliner NB in Milwaukee going from 5th to 6th st. top right ....NB train just coming off the PROW on south side of Milwaukee. bottom left...giving the "highball" at Edison Ct. station, Waukegan IL on the Skokie Valley Rte. bottom right...NB train in Milwaukee first group of 2 photos... left side In Milwaukee, snow storm in progress, CRS for sure,but this may have been the last weekend of streetcar operation in Milwaukee 900 type car. right side... Lakeside Belt Line free shuttle for plant workers from Kinnickinnic Blvd to Lakeside power plant. operated only at shift change times. That is a high school chum of mine in the photo 900 type car. next group of 2 photos left side Portland Oregon. Portland Traction. The motormans name was Percy. He was an ex-pat Englishman. right side Portland OR. terminal. The ROW for the PT and SP was a short walk from the friends house where we were staying. I was a pretty young kid when I took these photos. next group of 4 photos... top left 6000 type of car built with components from former PCC streetcars. Please note the two former wood passenger coaches converted into crew rooms .This was at the Loomis Blvd terminal of the Englewood branch of the former North-South Route. This was a 2 track stub terminal. top right... Electroliner at the Belmont Rd. elevated station. I had gone to see the Cubs lose that day. bottom left... crest of the west yard hump of the BRC at 69th st and Central Ave. That is the hump tower you see over the cow and calf unit. the hogger was a friend of mine and I used to get cab rides from him. bottom right... this a detail photo for modelers who want to model a typical city trolley transfer corner. This is the intersection of 63rd street and Kedzie Avenues in Chicago. 63rd st runs E/W and Kedzie N/S. The photo is taken looking across Kedzie. Note the newstand. there is one like it where I am standing. The man pointing was my boss. I sold papers on the Kedzie transfer corner, that is my bike chained to the sign behind the 55gal drum trashcan. What is interesting,and you have to look hard, is that the trolley overhead wire is still in place on 63rd st. even though the line had been bussified some 5+ years before AND was engergized to prevent thievery. Note the two poles close together. the one closer to the building is the overhead support pole and has a white band painted on it to denote a car stop. Kedzie Ave at this time was in the process of converting to trolley coach.but had been operated by gas busses since 1953. Herb Karolls was a famous Chicago menswear shop in Chicago. He had several stores in the area. I bought many clothes from this store. The view looks west. Karolls is long gone and a senior citizen apartment complex now occupies this space.The newsstands are long gone too! Charlie
Thanx "Lion" for posting up the photos. If anyone needs more explanation of the detail in the photos, let me know. I'll poke around my files and see what else I can resurrect from the vaults. Basically the last group of photos is for detail information for modelers. There is a good deal of rich detail information for someone who is modelling big city rail and rapid transit. As a "fer instance", on the snap of the BRC cow and calf, the location I am taking it from is a small lean-to shanty for the car inspector ("car tonk"). I was chatting with him while waiting for Harry to finish shoving a cut of cars over that hump. This is a detail that could be added to your hump yard operation. CT
Family day out a couple weeks ago to the Sutherland Tram museum, Very unusual piece,its a grass & weed burner!
