Puget Sound Electric car donated

The last surviving car from the Puget Sound Electric in Washington, car 523 (St. Louis, 1907) has been donated the Northwest Railway Museum in Snoqualmie. Earlier this week it was trucked from Petaluma, California, where it had been privately owned by Paul Class and stored with the Petaluma Trolley collection, to Snoqualmie. The news comes from the Snoqualmie Valley Record.

Car 523 is the only survivor from the PSE. Its post-preservation history is a little uncertain, to me at least. It was retired early, in 1929, and thereafter served as a yard office on the Tacoma Municipal Belt for some period. Eventually it was acquired by Paul Class and I think was located in Glenwood, Oregon for a time before making its way to Petaluma a decade or so ago. Any further information on this car's history in the last few decades would be appreciated.

As for NWRM, this is the only electric car of theirs currently on the PNAERC roster but they have been involved obliquely with traction preservation for decades. For a time in the 1980s and 1990s they owned a Kennecott Copper steeplecab, but that was cut up in 2000. And a private collection of several electric cars in various stages of collapse is located just off of NWRM property with a track connection to the museum's line. These cars are listed on the roster under private ownership.