BCER interurban car restoration completed

News from the Fraser Valley Heritage Railway Society comes along that British Columbia Electric Railway 1304, dubbed the "Connaught" because of its claim to fame that it once carried the Duke of Connaught, has seen major restoration work completed. This car was acquired from the Oregon Electric Railway Historical Society in 2009, moved to Surrey at that time, and has been undergoing a full rebuilding for most of the time since. FVRHS has established quite the reputation for restoring and preserving BCER interurban cars; of the seven interurbans from that line currently preserved, three (including three out of the four operational examples) are in Surrey including the two unique cars, 1207 and 1304, alongside their regular runner 1225. For an organization that didn't exist for several decades after the BCER quit, they've done an impressive job of acquiring and restoring equipment from that railway.