by Milwaukee Composites | Feb 8, 2018 | News
Just as the track and stations are starting to look like a real streetcar system in downtown Milwaukee, the vehicles that will run on the tracks are taking shape in a manufacturing plant in Pennsylvania. Check out the attached slideshow put together by TODAY’s...
by Milwaukee Composites | Feb 8, 2018 | News
Crews building the Milwaukee Streetcar vehicles say the first of 5 cars is 90 percent complete. Brookville Corporation in Brookville, Pennsylvania is manufacturing the vehicles alongside others for a future Oklahoma City line. “We’ve got vehicles in multiple stages of...
by Milwaukee Composites | Nov 6, 2017 | News
Milwaukee Composites, a manufacturer of patented phenolic composite floors for mass transit vehicles, is manufacturing and donating $100,000 worth of flooring to Milwaukee’s first five vehicles of the city’s Streetcar project. Streetcars are passenger vehicles that...
by Milwaukee Composites | Oct 27, 2017 | News
Direct ChassisLink Inc. (DCLI) has agreed to acquire TRAC Intermodal’s fleet of 72,000 53-foot domestic chassis, along with related customer and hosting contracts with Class Is and intermodal shipping companies throughout the United States. The transaction is...
by Milwaukee Composites | Oct 26, 2017 | News
Jeff Kober said it started with a talk he had with a chief engineer at the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority who was tired of the floors in his rail cars wearing out and needing replacement. “He said I’m done with the old floors,” Kober remembered....
by Milwaukee Composites | Oct 26, 2017 | News
At least part of the Milwaukee Streetcar will be made right here in Milwaukee County. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and other city officials toured the plant of Cudahy-based Milwaukee Composites Inc. on Thursday afternoon to see first hand the floors that will end up in...