Boston car confirmed scrapped

As with the Lackawanna MU car mentioned in the previous post, it's inevitable that cars on the list will get cut up now and again. In fact there are many (I'm thinking of some of the PCC graveyards out there) that are on the list that are truly on borrowed time and stand little chance of ultimate survival, I must admit. However one of my standards is that any electric car owned by a museum or preservation-oriented organization (or even person) goes on the list, even if it's in pretty wretched shape or is slated for disposal.

But then again, most of those cars do end up "going away." It was confirmed for me that Boston center-door car 6309 was parted out by the Seashore Trolley Museum in 2010 and disposed of, so I've finally taken it off of my roster, seven years later. One of three of the big center-door cars at Seashore, 6309 was the newest of the three (built in 1921) and the only Laconia. It was also the only one of the three with K-control, as the other two have MU control (albeit two different types). But it was in really rough shape; rebuilt as a sand car in 1937, it had the usual work service modifications and had suffered the usual poor maintenance before retirement. The photo above was taken in 2000 on my first visit to Seashore. On the bright side, car 6131, one of the museum's other two center-door cars, is now in the Town House restoration shop undergoing intensive rebuilding work to return it to its former glory.