Car 21 Drawings
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Ohio Railway Museum's
Ohio Public Service Interurban Car 21
By Ryan Hoover, Museum Member 1962-1969
Ohio Public Service electric interurban trolley car number 21 was the centerpiece of the Ohio Railway Museum (ORM) collection throughout the 1950's and 1960's until the acquisition and restoration of CD&M steel parlor car 501 of 1926. 21 was the first piece of railway equipment acquired by the Central Ohio Railfans' Association (CORA) for the museum. It was also the oldest, having been built in 1905, until the arrival of Kansas City Public Service Co. streetcar 472, built in 1900. Car 21 is a shining example of early wooden interurban car design and construction, resembling in some major details of architecture of the classic wooden Pullman sleeping cars built between 1890 and 1910. This article tells of the manufacture, early history, and restoration by ORM of this classic electric railway passenger car. ----> description continued