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Matt Cosgro photo, all rights reserved. Used with permission.
North Shore Line #755, built by the Standard Steel Company of Pittsburgh in 1930, is a representative of the last order for passenger coaches placed by the Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee. Seating 53 passengers, it is capable of a balancing speed of more than 80 miles per hour. Twice modernized, once in 1940 and again in the 1950s, it became one of the North Shore Line's fleet of 31 "Silverliners", so called because the cars were painted so as to look like the fluted stainless steel coaches of the mainline railroads. Both 420 and 755 came to Maine on their own wheels via mainline railroads, coupled into freight trains. They arrived in 1966.
History from Historic Cars: The National Collection at the Seashore Trolley Museum by Ben Minnich
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