Harold Cox Birney Book

[daveklepper]

Contents page OK on wideband server, and as here is a Halifax Birney:

Is that the real color of the pavement?

Here the current heritage operation in Fort Collins:

and regular service:

 

 

[daveklepper]

Since the posted contents page works well as a URL, why not keep this thread active by finding and posting Birney Car color pictures?

I'll try and do my part.  Hope to post Halifax soon, just need the wideband connection.  Possibly Sunday.

Today, on my computer at least, with a narrow-band server, the contents page seems to have been hacked.   If this appears to be true when I use wideband, I think I can do the required repair.

[daveklepper]

And one of the three cars, this from San Diego to Sacramento Northern, that closed out the Chico local service in December 1947.   Now at Western Railway Museum www.wrm.org:

[daveklepper]

And for Fort Collins Birneys:

[RME]

For my own use, I added the page numbers and wish to share:

This is very useful, as it carries over the direct live links to the book pages.  I think it should be "stickied" somewhere appropriate, perhaps here in the Transit forum.

Thanks!

[daveklepper]

As downloaded from the website given, which involves everything and anything related to Toronto transit, the Contents page lacks page numbers.  Whether this meant that Harold Cox never really completed the book, or this is a peculiarity of the particular website is a question.  For my own use, I added the page numbers and wish to share:

Contents

Introduction   page 3

The Background    4

Miscellaneous Notes  18

General Tables

United States

Alabama         22

Arkansas     & Arizona    23

California       24    

Colorado        28

Connecticut    28

Florida           30

Georgia          31

Illinois           33

Indiana           37

Iowa               41

Kansas           42

Kentucky       44

Louisiana       45

Maine            46

Maryland       48

Massachusetts  48

Michigan       52

Minnesota      55

Mississippi     55

Missouri         56

Nebraska        57

New Hampshire  58

New Jersey     59

New York       60

North Carolina   66

North Dakota  68

Ohio                68

Oklahoma       N/A

Oregon            N/A

Pennsylvania   75

Rhode Island    78

South Carolina  78

South Dakota    78

Tennessee        80

Texas               80

Utah                 83

Vermont          83

Virginia           83

Washington     85

West Virginia  88

Wisconsin        88

Wyoming         91

 

 

Canada

British Columbia    92

Manitoba                92

New Brunswick      92

Newfoundland       92

Nova Scotia           92

Ontario                  94

Quebec                  96

Other Countries

Argentina             97

Australia              98

Brazil                   98

Colombia             98

Cuba                    100

Ecuador               100

Manchuria           100

Mexico                100

Netherlands         102

New Zealand       102

Peru                     102

Addenda, Body Types and Plans

Addenda             102

Birney Body Types 102

Birney Plans        106

Other Single-truck Lightweight Car Designs   109

American Car Co. Lightweights

Cincinnati Car Co. Lightweights

Cincinnati Car Co. ST Curvesides

Single-truck Nearsides  112  

St. Louis Car Co. Lightweights

Southern Car Co. Lightweights

Single-truck Brill Master Unit

The New Birney    118

Birney Buses         118

Back Cover      

Copyright 1966 by Harold E. Cox.
E-mail: [e-mail]
Information cited from this source, either in print or electronic form should be cited by URL with electronic notification to the copyright holder.

 

 

Photo Credits

The photographs in this book have been secured from a variety of sources. These are indicated below:

Frank Buttes
Lester Brander
Thomas Dworman
George Yater
Barney Neuberger
H. B. Olsen
Barker Gummere
Stephen D. Maguire
Allan H. Berner
Luther Cummings Jr.
New York Chapter, NRHS
Leonard Y. Tripp
Loris Bass
Richard L. Wonson
E. R. Mohr
Lewis H. Hoy
Edward Watson
Paul Stringham
Otto Goessl
Harry S. Lee
Charles Smallwood
LeRoy O. King, Jr.
St. Louis Car Company
Electric Railway Journal
Tom Gray
Bert Ward
Alvin W. Hudson   
David M. Buechler
J. Seletto
A. C. Bellamy
Graham C. Stewart
D. L. Stearns
J. T. Labbe
E. Harper Charlton
Herb Woods
James P. Shuman
Frted W. Schneider III

[Electroliner 1935]

While I didn't take photos, I did ride the Ft. Collins Birney Car which is still running. 

http://www.fortcollinstrolley.org/history.html

[daveklepper]

Here is a photo of 2350 at the Museum from the website:

Please post any of your pictures of Birney that lasted long enough for you to photograph them.   Thanks.

[daveklepper]

Found an error:

Birneys operated on the Conner Street line through WWII.  Car 2350 ran under its own power from the James Street carhouse to the Branford Electric Railway museum trackage in the summer of 1947.

[daveklepper]

THANKS!!!!!

[DSchmitt]

This site has a link to view  "The Birney Car" on-line.  Is it the book you are looking for.  Link is in the middle of the list of books.

http://www.trainweb.org/elso/ttc-ref.htm

 

[daveklepper]

Harold Cox (still alive, I hope) offered this find book as a free download about 18 years ago, and I took advangage of it.   Now I find it missing, and I believe I may a have a definite need for it.  I find the book for sale at various venders with blogs, but I do not find any downloading.  Anyone have it who is willing to share?  Any suggestions other than sending one of the second-hand vendors a check?