As stated earlier, #93 is literally out of the woods. In other words, it is being stored inside and protected from the elements.
3/2004 Where it is being stored, it is surrounded by some confining obsolete heavy equipment... not any more. The equipment has been removed and more space is opened up around the trolley so it can be worked on.
4/2004 As was stated, Trolley Car #93 was last used as a hunting camp out in the woods. The interior had built in bunk beds along one side where the hunters slept after a night of playing cards and such before the hunt. Those have been removed along with the paneling blocking most of the windows on both sides.
This new old stock front head light was donated by Clayton Anderson. It was still kicking around in the Old Bus Garage at the east end of the 3rd Street Bridge. Thank You!
Talk about luck, thanks to the generosity of Cindy Bonarigo who had the Traders Blend shop in Findley Lake, and the efforts of John Kress an antique dealer in Maple Springs NY, the three original interior dome lights have been recovered.
Jim Streib of Kennedy NY dismantled one of the 90 series trollies that sat on his property near Dewittville NY. He had this old original destination sign kicking around for years and was nice enough to donate it to the restoration project.
Here's a close up of the inner workings and the multi-destination scroll. The back is a hinged light box that illuminated the back of the opaque cloth scroll.
George Sinclair, a postcard collector / history enthusiast from Dunkirk, N.Y., saw this page and decided to donate this postcard to the trolley project. THANKS GEORGE !!!
I have been communicating with Washington University of St. Louis Missouri in hopes of tracking down some of the original plans and dimensions for this car. (They have the bulk of the St. Louis Car Company records archived in their library.) I received my first mailing from them recently and although there were no plans, I am hopeful that the photographs and other information will lead to their discovery.