We just received this picture from our friend Bill Stewart. It shows the late Dr. Howard Blackburn, one of IRM's founding members, with car 65 in 1941. Bill says:
The site is the ramshackle car barn at Columbus (by then not much more than a few concrete walls), just a few miles north of the site of the 1941 blind-curve wreck that brought service to a close on this last segment of the former IRR Louisville line (ex-Interstate Public Service, previously Indianapolis Columbus & Southern Traction). Doc Blackburn, you may recall, was one of those who answered Howard Odinius' call in 1953 and wrote a check to help make IRR 65 the first accession of the then-Illinois Electric Railway Museum.
Of particular note to preservation and restoration types: the crude, seemingly rushed rendering of the car number above the center windshield. Must have been done late on a Friday afternoon!