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The Milwaukee Electric Ry. & Light Co.
The Milwaukee Electric Ry. & Transport Co.
City Cars 500 - 524
501 thru 600 were built by St. Louis Car in 1911. At 29 1/2 tons, they were the heaviest local cars built for Milwaukee. The story is told that people along the Wells Line were complaining about the interurbans which ran every hour. John I. Beggs ordered these cars to really give them something to complain about. The truth of this story is questionable but they were his last purchase for TM.
This series of 100 cars is being split into four pages for convenience.
Car 600 was rebuilt as one man in 1926 and renumbered 500 to bring it into the proper number series. 501 thru 510 were one manned in 1926. 511 thru 524 were one manned in 1927. All were scrapped between 1948 and 1952 except 523. 500 was scrapped in 1949. 523 went to the Lakeside Shuttle in 1950 and ran until replaced by 882 in 1954. It was then scrapped despite a few efforts to save it. One unusual car was 506 which had a split window in the side of the platform. This was apparently the only one like it.
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