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Date: 08/26/15 20:41
MILW #30, a 1947 Dodge
Author: MartyBernard

Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul & Pacific Inspection Car #30 at the Mid-Contenent Ry Museum at North Freedom, WI on July 26, 1982.  It was built by the Dodge Motor Co. in 1947 and has been sold to the Illinois Railway Museum.

Marty Bernard

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Date: 08/26/15 20:47
Re: MILW #30, a 1947 Dodge
Author: MojaveBill

My uncle had a DeSoto with that same body right after the war. Those were big, limo-size cars...

Bill Deaver
Tehachapi, CA

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Date: 08/26/15 22:59
Re: MILW #30, a 1947 Dodge
Author: Auburn_Ed

Paid $25.00 for my 1949 DeSoto.  Used it in auto shop in high school. The back seat was so big, you could host a square dance back there!  It was NOT considered a cool car back then.

Ed

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Date: 08/27/15 07:22
Re: MILW #30, a 1947 Dodge
Author: engine3420

They were popular taxi cabs here in So. California.  Same colors...yellow with red fenders.
Chris

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Date: 08/27/15 08:33
Re: MILW #30, a 1947 Dodge
Author: twin_star_rocket

What a beauty!

Brian Ehni
 

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Date: 08/27/15 09:35
Re: MILW #30, a 1947 Dodge
Author: africansteam

"Put a Dodge in your Roundhouse honey!"

Cheers,
Jack

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Date: 08/27/15 09:42
Re: MILW #30, a 1947 Dodge
Author: EMDSW-1

Looks like some sort of "derail skid" on the front but not on back...she must not have been all that "trackworthy"!

Dick Samuels

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Date: 08/27/15 11:45
Re: MILW #30, a 1947 Dodge
Author: 41

That may be a device to take off the track and onto roadway at a crossing.  I see a hydraulic pump mounted on the front.

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Date: 08/27/15 12:45
Re: MILW #30, a 1947 Dodge
Author: MartyBernard

I bet that hydraulic pump on the front lowers that rerailer bar.  What do you think?

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Date: 08/27/15 20:09
Re: MILW #30, a 1947 Dodge
Author: NebraskaZephyr

That beauty, her paint now badly faded and oxidized, has been sold and moved to Illinois Railway Museum, where the track crew has "adopted" it. Hopefully she will again ride the rails soon. 

NZ​

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