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RESEARCH AND DUPLICATION<\/h3>\t\t\t

We are a non-circulating archival museum, but we wish to make items in our collections available to the public. Research and duplication services are available for a reasonable fee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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MEMBER PUBLICATION<\/h3>\t\t\t

Friends of the Museum periodically receive our publication, MILWAUKEE TRANSIT HERITAGE. Contributions of articles and photographs by members and non-members alike is encouraged. Remember our focus when making submissions.<\/p>\n

Regular features include:
\n – items of interest from our Archives
\n– a feature article
\n– photo gallery
\n– volunteer and donor profiles
\n– featured artifacts or documents from our galleries
\n– passes, tickets, transfers and timetables
\n– president’\u0019s message<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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SPECIAL EVENTS<\/h3>\t\t\t

From time to time, the Friends of the Museum may offer special events or offers to members and their guests. Events and offers will be announced in our publication, to members who provide an email address, and online on our website. We look forward to meeting our members at these events.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TRACTION CLUB<\/h2>\n

This division of the Museum features both HO and O scale operating trolley layouts, powered by overhead wire, which are displayed either at the Museum or at Milwaukee's TRAINFEST\u00ae and other area venues.<\/p>\n

Opportunities exist for Friends members to help maintain, set-up and operate layouts, as well as for social networking among other traction modelers. (See the Volunteer section under Membership). The Museum'\u0019s Archives also contain informational resources for the trolley modeler, as well as photos, slides and DVDs of historic to recent trolley layouts, modelers and their models, mostly within southeastern Wisconsin and northern Illinois.<\/p>\n

OUR HISTORIC TROLLEY LAYOUTS<\/h2>\n

NORTH SHORE LINE MILWAUKEE PASSENGER DEPOT & FREIGHT HOUSE (HO)<\/b>
\nThis full city block module of Milwaukee'\u0019s North Shore Line Passenger Depot, trainshed and freight house as originally built was crafted by the late Wayne Hammelman, formerly of Oak Creek, WI and New Braunfels, TX. The depot and trainshed is from a \u001cDepots by John \u001dkit; the freight house was kitbashed using several kits. A portion of the \u001c6th Street Viaduct connects to a return loop section which is not prototypical of Milwaukee. It is on permanent operating display at the Museum.<\/p>\n

KINNICKINNIC VALLEY LIGHT, HEAT & TRACTION (HO)<\/b>
\nCreated by the late Wayne Hammelman, this 4' x 5' module is a free-lance depiction of \u001cWayne'\u0019s World\u001d, loosely patterned after the Milwaukee Electric and North Shore Lines, and featuring family names. Upon its return to Milwaukee from Texas, this module was awarded \u001cBest of Show - Modules \u001d at the 2013 TRAINFEST\u00ae show in West Allis, WI.<\/p>\n

MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TRACTION CLUB (O)<\/b>
\nThe straight sections of our own O scale layout are from the original 14-module one created by an informal association of friends that came to be known as the Milwaukee Electric Traction Club. It appeared at TRAINFEST\u00ae yearly, and introduced many, including this Museum'\u0019s President and CEO, to the world of traction modeling.<\/p>\n

LAYOUT OF TOM MATOLA (O)<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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