Black Hills Central update

As I did some web surfing looking for more information on Utah interurban cars, I came across an update on Bamberger 403. This classic Jewett wooden interurban car was built in 1910 as a motorized combine but was later rebuilt by Bamberger as a coach trailer. It strongly resembles (well, resembled) cars built for the North Shore Line in Chicago, of which none survived.

But it doesn't resemble them much any more. It was stored in steadily deteriorating condition at the Heber Valley Railroad in Utah until 2012, when it was sold to the Black Hills Central and moved to South Dakota. It appears, from an ATRRM blog post, that the BHC rebuilt it last year for use as a locomotive-hauled coach. It fits in well with the other ex-interurban cars in their regular train, the others being from the Oregon Electric, but it's too bad that the car has lost much of its classic appearance to a somewhat clumsy, if admittedly pragmatic, rebuilding. That said, the car wasn't exactly complete and original when it went to South Dakota, and at BHC it should be well maintained.