From the Schmidt Photo Collection: the Mason City and Clear Lake.
These are interesting, but unfortunately there is little information on the back. The date these were taken is missing, but must be 1948 at the earliest.
Work motor 19 was built in 1896 for the New York and Brooklyn, and it ran over the Brooklyn Bridge using a cable system similar to those used in cities such as San Francisco or Chicago.
Box motor 34.
The MC&CL had some unique home-built locomotives.
You have to wonder how many windows a steeple cab really needs.
The 53 was built in 1917 for the Youngstown and Ohio River as a standard Baldwin-Westinghouse Class C. Renumbered 60, it still operates on the Iowa Traction.
This McGuire-Cummins snow sweeper is the other piece of MC&CL equipment to survive. It was built for MC&CL in 1911 and has been almost everywhere: Mt. Pleasant, the Iowa Trolley Park, Branford, and now at Rockhill.
Another home-built work motor.
Finally, a three-way stub switch. You wouldn't get me to operate over this!
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All the MCC&CL photos look to be taken at the Emery, IA shops (halfway between Mason City & Clear Lake). Iowa Traction still has their shops there today.
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