Switch Move Saturday - Updated

Many thanks to Joel Ahrendt for sending us some photos of a big Electric Car Department switch move that happened on Saturday. The primary impetus for this was to put the 453 in Barn 13, where its current ugliness will be hidden from public view (though we're hoping it returns soon to the "land of the living on 600 volts" for continuation of restoration work), and also to bring Illinois Terminal 1702 closer to the shop, because the current plan is to resume the restoration work on this car that was stopped some 30 years ago. I wasn't there so I'm not certain what order these happened in.

Here's a telephoto shot from South Junction, with one of the CTA 6100's on the left, ComEd SW1 15 in the center, and what I believe is South Shore 19 - our only opening-window stretched South Shore car - on the right.

Here, North Shore 763 and CA&E 453 have been spotted on the lead to Yard 15.

The "Menominee" emerges into the sunlight for the first time in probably a year or two. It was recently revealed to me that research suggests this is not the 1135, as long though, but actually the 1136. But it's still the "Menominee."

Here's the 1702 on the connector track, near where the "power change" from the diesel switching the south yards to ComEd 4 switching Barn 6 took place. The open platform end of the 1702 was rebuilt back in the 1980s by Bob Bruneau, so this end of the car looks very nice.

Detroit Street Railway 3865, our resident Peter Witt, also emerges during the switch move. This car looks perfectly nice, but we don't have enough barns open to the public to keep it on display.

ComEd 15 tows CSL 4001 out of the barn at left-center, while on the right you can see Detroit 3865 behind TM flat car E58.

And here's a whole lineup of electric cars not normally on public view: South Shore 19, CTA 6125 (or 6126, I have no idea), CSL 4001, and DSR 3865, with a couple of railroad cars in the mix for good measure.

UPDATE: Bill Wulfert has also sent in a bunch of photos he took of the switch move. Thanks, Bill!

From the tack molding up, she looks terrific!

The "deck" on the 1702 is beautiful. It's just the "house" that needs some work.

The Detroit streetcar company is almost universally known as Detroit Street Railway or Detroit Street Railways, but to be absolutely semantically correct, DSR actually stands for the Department of Street Railways (of the city of Detroit).

And finally, a quick update photo of Met car 2872 over in Barn 4: