Erie-Lackawanna MU car confirmed scrapped

There are, unfortunately, most likely a number of electric cars included on the PNAERC list that are no longer in existence - they've been scrapped and I just haven't yet found out about it. The problem is identifying which ones these are. Museums aren't typically too loud about scrapping cars, especially when it's something that they had originally hoped to save, and non-preservation-oriented organizations are often unlikely to announce much of anything they're doing.

So it's kind of hit-or-miss, trying to ID cars that might not still be around. One of these "questionables" was Erie-Lackawanna MU car 3589, one of many cars of its type in preservation. Until a couple of years ago it was stored under a bridge near the Station Square development in Pittsburgh, listed under private ownership. But apparently it took some fire damage and I was recently able to confirm that the car was, indeed, scrapped. At least some of the parts were distributed to area museums and tourist railroads to help restore other equipment, so that's a positive. And this wasn't a great loss from an historic standpoint; the car was in poor condition and certainly not unique, nor even rare.