Milwaukee 441 Update

Thanks to Richard Schauer, who on Saturday night sent along this update of progress on Milwaukee trolley bus 441, being restored off-site by a body shop thanks to generous funding from interested donors:

Work proceeded at a lighter pace this week, but the progress is still there.  The attached picture of the curb side shows that the rear doors saw most of the work this week; the wood in them is in quite good condition.  They said they had largely finished with the street side, but I think that work was shown in last week's pictures.  I did take a picture of one thing, and told the workers there about it.  The "transit spectacular" painted advertisement that for a little while in the '50s occupied all of the lower street side between the wheels was fairly obvious, although you still couldn't see enough of anything to even make a guess at what it was.  In my picture, the remains of it can be seen as the blue layer of paint; in other places, the extra layer was red or yellow.

If you missed North Shore Line Day at IRM today, commemorating the 60th anniversary of the abandonment, you missed an enjoyable day!