by atsf sp
Does anyone know what cars were at the Louisville and Boston Spaghetti factories? Were these ones replicas or real trolleys?
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Northern Texas Traction Company car 409 spent many years inside the former Rochester Spaghetti Warehouse restaurant located in downtown Rochester. Saved in 1996 through the efforts of many Rochesterians and New York Museum of Transportation volunteers after the restaurant closed down, the trolley was moved to the the NYMT in 1996 and then moved inside of the NYMT display barn in 1997. Mainly through the efforts of NYMT member Charlie Robinson, a trolley historian, car 409 was re-opened for public display inside the NYMT on May 15, 1998 .-otto-
Tadman wrote:The Spaghetti factory in South Bend, IN, had a Lake Shore (CSS predecessor) interurban body. Disposition unknown, but I recall seeing it as a child in the early 1980's.
Lynn,
The trolley car that was in our building was sold at auction when we closed that building. The trolley it’s self was originally from somewhere in Indiana. Due to the size of these items and the hardships of moving them we try to find them locally and refurbish on site. I do not know who purchased that particular trolley and would have no way of finding out that information I’m afraid.
I wish I could have been of more help.
Thank You
Andy Geer
South Regional Manager
Spaghetti Warehouse
Milwaukee_F40C wrote:Spaghetti Factory and Spaghetti Warehouse were probably owned by the same restaurant investment group. I went to Spaghetti Warehouse in Naperville, IL a long time ago. There, too, the "trolley" was part of the restaurant's national chain mass-market theme. It might have had something like "Aurora Street Railway" painted on it. I don't remember how accurate or cheesy it was in detailing, but overall it seemed like an oversize replica of a streetcar constructed for the dining purpose. It is probably easiest to construct a streetcar shaped outline and decorate it with sheet metal side panels and stained veneer on the inside.January 21, 2015
A couple years ago the Fox River Trolley Museum acquired a car original to the museum line, a St. Louis Car Co. lightweight interurban. The Fox River car has unusual proportions, with a streetcar-like length and height profile, but very wide compared to common streetcars, with huge windows and riding low to the ground on small wheels. In thinking about the "trolley" that was at Spaghetti Warehouse in Naperville, as far as I can remember, the similarity to the Fox River car's profile is peculiar.