Edison Car Under Restoration

From this post on the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum's Facebook page comes some good news: Lackawanna MU car 2628, shown above, is at the Morristown & Erie's shop complex in New Jersey and is currently being restored. Car 2628 is one of the Lackawanna's 1930 "Edison cars," so called because Thomas Edison ran the ceremonial first train. Many of these motor cars are still around, in various states of preservation, but not a single one has been truly restored to in-service condition. It appears that may be about to change, though understandably enough this won't be an operational restoration. The car's status on the PNAERC list has been changed to reflect the work being done on it.