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PAGE 4 RECORDER JUNE 2015 THE HEADWAY RECORDER VOLUME 76 NUMBER 3 JUNE 2015

Silk Road maneuvers onto the BC to cross Claude Sabot Photograph Howe Sound, northwest of , , on NCTM Collections May 21st.

MUSEUM CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Transit Progress Day

Civil War Streetcars Guilded Age Streetcars.

A Horse Car Named Desire: Walt Whitman’s Street Railway On May 20th, Silk draws Société des Trans- Claude Sabot Photograph Romance Intercommunaux de Bruxelles (STIB) 9060 aboard for NCTM Collections its trip across North America. Claude Sabot’s efforts to es- tablish a heritage trolley route in Gibsons, British Columbia with his collection of Brussels have ended. The Muse- um is acquiring STIB 9060, one of one hundred single truck cars built in 1960 with PCC-style bodies, to provide a heated Go to: for winter service at the Museum. The car has a backup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXF_nhB0CT8 controller, pantograph, and bi-directional seating so it can serve as a double-end car. Follow the link in the box to the A 78th Anniversary STIB 9079 is shown at 0:40 seconds and 7:00 minutes into right to see STIB 9079 operating in Brussels. the video.

PRESERVING AND INTERPRETING THE HISTORY OF ELECTRIC STREET AND RAILWAYS FOR THE NATION’S CAPITAL

PAGE 2 HEADWAY RECORDER JUNE 2015 JUNE 2015 HEADWAY RECORDER PAGE 3 curriculum the Museum’s programs are directly designed are NATIONAL CAPITAL HISTORICAL MUSEUM REPORT TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES missing out. The Museum is working with a committee of OF TRANSPORTATION, INC. May 26, 2015 the Montgomery County Arts Advocates to improve coordi- BOARD OF TRUSTEES nation with MCPS. April 18, 2015 Ken Rucker is developing three temporary exhibit and Grounds Maintenance banner sets and planning the installation of an information Call to order at 9:32 a.m. by President Rucker. W. F. Wilson and Company has tightened bolts on sign at the Museum entrance gate. This project is funded in all sides of the T connection in the water line to the Mainte- part by the Heritage Tourism Alliance of Montgomery Coun- Officer Present nance Carhouse. During this operation which cost $3607, Rucker, President yes ty. there was discussion about whether all bolts were tightened Velte, Vice President yes Paulson, Secretary yes two years ago. If this connection leaks again, Railway Maintenance Tirschman, Treasurer no Suburban Sanitary Commission inspector will expect to find K. W. Reese Company has replaced 107 crossties a new installation as a better fix for the recurring problem. Trustee Since Present Trustee Since Present between Fishook Curve and pole 254 on the legacy railway Jack’s Roofing sent the job leader on a rainy day in Rucker 71 yes Petzold 07 yes and installed the new Racor E22 switch throw at the M-10 Glick 87 yes Clarke 09 yes March to plan his work to repair the gutter on the south wall switch. Some small track adjustments are being done with Paulson 89 yes Kaiser 09 yes of Street Car Hall. He has not been back!! Madison 01 yes Armstrong 13 yes volunteers. Velte 03 yes Gegan 13 yes Two trolley wire hangers must be re-attached to the Final steps include re-glazing the end wall Ken Rucker Photograph Cox 04 yes Carroll 15 yes Collections Acquisitions span wires above them. windows. NCTM Collections The Acquisitions Committee thanks the Trustees for

Also attending: No one a rapid response to the poll concerning its recommendation

The trustees welcome Patrick Carroll to the Board. to acquire STIB 9060. Moving quickly, the Museum ran a Power2Give campaign to raise the money to move the car The minutes of the April 18, 2015 meeting are approved as amended. from British Columbia. Silk Road Transport has picked up The exterior restoration of CTCo 522 is nearing the car. completion. During the summer, Keith Bray is making three Treasurer's Report: Detail report is attached through March 2015. Rucker entrance steps and is preparing the portable vestibules for reviews report and addresses Kaiser’s concern about the Car Shop expense which exceeds the budget. (Off budget emergency Collections Care installation. repair of motor-generator set for HTM 1329.) The Car Shop crews have successfully installed a re Meanwhile, George Epperson is preparing drawings -conditioned motor-generator set in HTM 1329. They have of the lettering and striping for a local painter to apply the Communications: finishing touches. Petzold describes the form letter response from the Public Utili also installed a new battery with supporting tray in DCTS ties Commission to her letter about Potomac Electric Power 1101. Finding a firm to paint the ceiling of DCTS 1101 is a Company billing in winter 2014. She will follow up. priority. Bruce Thain of Rail Technical Services reports that Glick presents the Museum a three-inch cast metal Toonerville trolley. the severe winter delayed his work on CTCo 27. In particu- lar, he wants to complete the manufacture and installation of Membership Secretary welcomes: the door operating linkages, to complete new wiring and Brian Uzwiak of Germantown, install ceiling panels, and to blast and prime the exterior of The windows are installed. The roof canvas Ken Rucker Photograph Report from the Director of Administration: Rucker presents his report of the car. His adjusted timetable suggests that he can have this and painting are complete. The trolley pole is NCTM Collections April 17, 2015 (attached). He discusses water line leak repair by work done by September, 2015. He also reports that the ready to go. Now CTCo 522 awaits the deliv- W. F. Wilson & Company and advises the Board that Bruce millwork firm which owed $7000 of woodwork to the pro- ery of a Lord Baltimore truck, installation of Thain is behind in the work on CTCo 27 scheduled for comple- ject since 2003 has closed. its portable vestibules and entrance steps, plus tion by May. The Board accepts Thain’s request to continue his completion of lettering and striping. work on the car until September, 2015. Collections Interpretation and Exhibition Report from the Director of Development: Paulson acknowledges the suc- Student participation in the Museum’s programs has cess of the monthly Constant Contact eblasts and notes that the taken a hit from the difficulty in coordination with Mont- Joshua Lepman joined the Museum while attending Extreme Makeover campaign is 45% funded. Wheaton High School and became a leading member of the gomery County Public Schools. Of the sixteen days the Mu- Topic: 50th Anniversary Celebration Committee seum offers its programs, MCPS is closed four and makes no track construction gang. During the summer of 1969, he Velte outlines the plans for Transit Progress Day. Kaiser notes field trip available for two more. A school which has served with the working group developing the Manual of contacts made with Maryland Mass Transit Administration and participated regularly for several years failed to arrive on the Operating Rules and served as a motorman on opening day Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. Paulson offers in October. Josh led the effort in 1972 to acquire the rail to follow up with Ride-On, Union Station Redevelopment Cor- day it was scheduled. Joanie Pinson continues to schedule poration, and Dr. Gridlock. smaller student groups, but the larger target groups for whose from St. Elizabeth’s Hospital and use some of it to rebuild Discussion follows regarding the 50th Anniversary fundraiser; the the end of the carline

event is now re-scheduled for September 30th. The Headway Recorder is published by the into Fishook Siding. Lat-

National Capital Historical Museum of Transportation, Inc. er, he directed track con- Topic: Business Partnership Committee 1313 Bonifant Road, Colesville, Maryland 20905-5955 Kaiser questions the relationship between fundraiser and the struction at the Baltimore Telephone 301-384-6352 Facsimile 205-449-1040 Partnership Opportunities program. Discussion follows; the Streetcar Museum and www.dctrolley.org matter is referred to the Committee. Carroll offers to explore Ken Rucker, Director of Administration employed his willingness how the Museum might use LinkedIn to promote the Partnership Wesley Paulson, Director of Development to teach to improve many Opportunities program.

volunteer track gangs at National Capital Trolley Museum operates in cooperation with the Topic: Nominating Committee several railway muse- Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission and is supported Rucker announces that the Committee must report next meeting. in part by funding from the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery ums.

County, the Heritage Tourism Alliance of Montgomery County, and the Adjourns at 11:05 a.m. th Maryland Heritage Areas Authority. Upon his return on May 7 , Keith Bray trims Ken Rucker Photograph the excess canvas to prepare for painting the NCTM Collections Josh Lepman saves the Seat Pleasant Steve Abromowitz Photograph roof on CTCo 522. Loop during the summer of 2014.. NCTM Collections