Over the weekend we went to St. Louis to visit various friends and relatives, including
David and
Katy. Mostly we toured Forest Park and visited the art museum, the history museum, the zoo, and so forth.
In front of the history museum is this car from Milan, Italy, on display to promote the
Loop Trolley project. Whether this will ever actually get built is anybody's guess, but the car itself needs some repair. The canvas is pulling out around the edges. And notice that the windows have no frames; they're just pieces of Plexiglass or something with the latches fastened to them. The loop will run from this location through the streets to a place near the University, where a
similar car is also on display.
- In other news, Randy Anderson sent me a few more pictures from Cleveland. It sure would be classy if the 36 still had these nice drapes in the windows. I wonder what happened to them?
Over the weekend we went to St. Louis to visit various friends and relatives, including David and Katy. Mostly we toured Forest Park and visited the art museum, the history museum, the zoo, and so forth. 
In front of the history museum is this car from Milan, Italy, on display to promote the Loop Trolley project. Whether this will ever actually get built is anybody's guess, but the car itself needs some repair. The canvas is pulling out around the edges. And notice that the windows have no frames; they're just pieces of Plexiglass or something with the latches fastened to them. The loop will run from this location through the streets to a place near the University, where a similar car is also on display.
4 comments:
The windows on the Milan car are original. They are probably some sort of tempered or safety glass with latches drilled through the glass. I've seen that elsewhere in Europe. Bill Wulfert
Thanks, Bill. When you consider all the work we go through to refinish brass or wood window sash on every one of our cars, that just seems outrageously unethical to me.
I don't think the 36 has curtains. I think that is a reflection of a concrete structure or retaining wall, that has a corrugated surface.
I have seen frameless windows somewhere in the U.S. I think they are installed on the Swiss built M&PP motor cars in Colorado. Can anyone confirm this?
Artschwartz
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