You are looking at Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee car #411, a former observation car on the North Shore that was converted to a coach during the forties. These former observation interurbans, which could be discerned because of the large windows, did not have bathrooms and ran only on the Mundelein branch of the North Shore to Chicago and back. This car was on its way back to Wisconsin, where it was owend by John Lauber. It ran for awhile on the East Troy Electric Railroad, which is the last remnant of The Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company. It ceased running because of a burned out motor, and sat at East Troy for a few years longer. It was traded to a museum in Michigan for an operable South Shore car from the CSS&SB RR.
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This picture was probably taken sometime between 1967 and the early 1970's (based on all the American automobiles of that vintage; when foreign cars were rarely seen in Brooklyn neighborhoods).
Last I heard, the engine (slant 6, 225 cu in) from my 1966 Valiant is still chugging along in a friend's boat. I sold it to him when it had over 200K miles on it.
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The inline six cylinder engine is inherently well balanced (with fewer moving parts than a V8) since each cylinder in an inline six with a three throw crankshaft fires in 153624 sequence at equal time intervals or every 120 degrees of crankshaft revolution and is therefore almost as smooth as a three phase electric motor.
