Branford updates

I recently got my hands on a newsletter from Branford that included updates of some of the car restoration work being performed there. Some of their restoration projects, such as PSCT 4584 and TARS 884, continue to see regular progress. But there are also a couple of new (or perhaps "new to me" would be more accurate) restoration projects that have resulted in PNAERC listing updates. First, C&LE 116, one of four surviving "Red Devil" high-speed cars, has been noted as under restoration. Though the car is not operational due to flooding, the exterior has been restored and a complete interior restoration is currently underway. There's also ConnCo 1802, a 1917 Wason steel car, which is being repainted and is evidently getting other work done as well. Finally, there was an interesting article on B&QT 8361, a Brooklyn Peter Witt recently acquired in unrestored condition from the Trolley Museum of New York. This noted that the car last ran in 1954 and also listed off the locations that it called home during its wandering years with TMNY. According to the article this was the first car acquired by TMNY, in April 1955, and between 1955 and c1967 it was stored in the B&O yard at St. George on Staten Island. It was then moved to Tansboro, NJ to the Trolley Valhalla site there, but only remained a short time until it was moved again to Morristown c1969. There it stayed until in 1976 it returned home to the Coney Island Shops of the NYCTA, where it was part of a stillborn plan to run historic streetcars on the old South Brooklyn Railway line. It left Coney Island in 1982 for the Brooklyn Army Terminal, whence it left for the permanent TMNY site in Kingston in 1988. Whew!