First up, the Elgin County Railway Museum is closing in on completion of their lengthy and comprehensive restoration of London & Port Stanley 14. Wesley Paulson sent me this link advertising a debut, of sorts, for car 14 coming up at the end of May. There's also a photo:
Car 14 is a "stretched" L&PS car built by Jewett in 1917. It's been under restoration at ECRM for quite a few years and has seen a tremendous amount of wood and other components replaced or rebuilt.And second, Sandwich Windsor & Amherstburg 351 has finally been dedicated and placed on display in its brand-new pavilion on the Windsor, Ontario, riverfront. This car was professionally restored - by which I mean torn all the way down to the underframe and rebuilt, with most if not all wood replaced - between late 2018 and 2019. After more than five years in storage, it was dedicated today in Windsor. Many thanks to Jon Fenlaciki for sending a series of photos detailing this event.
Car 351 is shown in its new home
The building includes historic exhibit space
Here we see how car 351 looked when it was extracted from a house in 2017
Mayor Drew Dilkens of Windsor looks through the car
L-R: John Stefani, Bernard Drouillard (Windsor area railway historian), Salina Larocque (Windsor City Parks), Norm Krentel, Jon Fenlaciki
Bernard Drouillard is on the left as Mayor Dilkens makes some remarks