Monday, September 18, 2017

Cleveland streetcar history

I stumbled across a blog post here from back in 2014 that was published by the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan concerning some upkeep work that was done on their historic Cleveland single-trucker, Cleveland Railway 0140. Of the three pieces of equipment owned by the Ford museum that are on the list, this is the eldest and most significant - but it appears that my ownership history had been lacking. I had formerly listed the car as having belonged to Cleveland Electric Railway from construction until 1910, but the Ford Museum's page suggested that the car was built for the Woodland Avenue & West Side Street Railroad. The what? This sounds like a job for Google!

So it appears that the WA&WSSRR existed until 1893, meaning that this car would have indeed been built for them. Then that line became part of Cleveland City Railway, and according to this site CCR was folded into Cleveland Electric in 1903. So that's where the car's ownership history stands now: six different owners and one renumbering across 125 years. Stuff like this is always interesting to me but it's also a good reminder that the information in the PNAERC list is only as good as its sources.

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