Thursday, October 17, 2019

Missing streetcar

A post on our sister Hicks Car Works blog here reveals that a streetcar in the East Troy Electric Railroad collection, Milwaukee Electric 200, has gone missing. The car is pictured above in 2011, by which time it had been moved off-site to private property, but between then and now ETER has undergone one of its periodic "regime changes" and the owner of the property died. At some point during the last few years the car seems to have vanished. Whether it was demolished or is sitting in someone's barn somewhere is a good question that the folks at East Troy are looking to answer.

UPDATE: This mystery has been solved!

So its condition on PNAERC has been changed to "situation unknown." There are a lot of cars on the list with this tag - 32 total at the moment. And I'm always looking to solve some of these mysteries, so please take a look at the list if you've got a minute. Some of the cars on the list (like QRL&P 105 and TTC TP10) are undeniably intact, I'm just not sure what condition they're in. There are some that were, until recently at least, bodies in a state of precarious storage on private land (KCC&StJ 54El Paso 90, San Antonio 205, and SCP 302 fall into this category). These cars have very likely been scrapped, and at some point I'll probably have to assume the worst and take them off the list (update here), but I'd love to know for certain. There are a handful of cars that were owned by apparently established organizations but seem to have disappeared (besides car 200, NOS&WB 50*Muni 1111, and the St Pete line car  (update) are in this category). There are a couple of PCC cars that were trucked to destinations unknown (NJT 24* and Pittsburgh 1772*). And then there are a few cars that I'm pretty sure - but not 100% certain - were scrapped, like Tandy 6*, TTC 2822, and Lackawanna 4351* and 4359*. (*=since solved!)

As always, the PNAERC list is only as complete or as accurate as the information that I'm able to gather. YOU can help!

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