Time for some more excitement and thrills, with challenges you can't find anywhere else!
To start with, I was actually going to include this picture, when I suddenly realized how obvious it was. This car later became the 144, and how I wish it could have been saved!
OK, time to put on your thinking caps.
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6 comments:
#3 Appears to be City Railway of Dayton, Ohio. One of the many competing streetcar operators in Dayton that eventually transitioned into trolleybuses.
-Jacob Wiczkowski
#4 looks like a Northern Indiana 300 series Cincinnati combines built in 1907, specifically one of the cars converted into one man service in 1930. - Will Knogl
Photo #2 appears to be Car 301 on the Jamestown, Westfield & Northwestern Railroad that ran between the two named places in the far western corner of New York state as an electrified interurban railway from 1914 to 1947. Car 301 was built by Cincinnati Car Co. in 1914 as a coach, then remodeled by the railroad into a parlor/baggage car, the baggage compartment later enlarged to handle considerable mail and express traffic. This and the other cars were originally dark green with gold lettering, later outfitted in a handsome and colorful bright red with gold lettering. The JW&NW had ten interurban passenger cars. Because the line was converted from a steam railroad into an electric interuban rather late in the game, it never had any wooden passenger cars — only steel — and also had almost no street running. Electric operation ended along with passenger service in 1947 and the line continued for freight with a pair of diesels — GE 70-tonners — until 1950. I’ve seen other photos of this car at this location on the same day but by different photographers, suggesting this was during some kind of fantrip excursion. The location is supposed to be somewhere along Lake Chautauqua. But the buildings and water tank in the distance suggest this might be just south of Westfield where the line climbs up the high hills via a serpentine series of horseshoe curves toward Mayville, Midway Park, and Jamestown. These hills along Lake Erie provide excellent soil and climate for growing Concord grapes and Westfield is best known as the birthplace and longtime headquarters of Welch’s grape juice and jam products. Midway Park was and still is one of the oldest local traditional amusement parks in the U.S. Today, the park is called Midway State Park but in it’s prime, the JW&NW brought lots of folks to the park, resorts, hotels, and lake steamers along Lake Chautauqua. Today, the interurban is long gone, but the park still has several old buildings that still give it a bit of “trolley park flavor” and the interurban depot building still stands today as an arcade and concessions pavilion. Today’s park has mostly kiddie rides including a kiddie coaster, a few standard carnival rides, but also a surviving 1950s-vintage operating MTC G-16 train that you can ride. — Otto P. Dobnick.
Number 5 looks like CS&CCD cars at Anchoria Leland Mine, other then that I don't know much about it.
#1 is the Winona Interurban Railway. #6 looks an awful lot to me like Illinois Traction System cab-on-flat 1505 has telescoped a 500-series ITS trailer - yikes. The ITS had some cab-on-flat motors like that, with the cab raised over the deck and supported by 4x4's (or similar) at the corners.
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