Update on the Angeleno Heights Birney

I started working up a "mystery car" post but, as sometimes happened, with enough Googling I was able to answer at least some of my own questions and locate some fairly current information.

The car in question is Los Angeles Railway 1030, a standard off-the-shelf Birney built by St. Louis in 1920 and retired in 1946. It's listed on the PNAERC roster under the ownership of the Angeleno Heights Trolley Line and the last solid information I had on it dated back to about 2005. But I stumbled across a GoFundMe page on the car, still under the name of Angeleno Heights Trolley, working to raise money to store and restore the car. A few photos showing the car's current condition - definitely deteriorated but more complete than you'd think and lacking obvious major body rust or damage - are included. The page also has an update saying the car is safely stored with LA Metro, though I'm not sure where exactly that would place it. But I'm guessing that car 1030, shown below in transit, is safe for the time being.

I had been under the impression that car 1030 was used in filming the movie "The Changeling," which was set in the 1920s and came out back in 2008, along with a second Birney. However it appears fairly obvious that this is not the case, given the long-term deterioration evident on car 1030. It appears that only one Birney was used for the filming: the Union College Birney from Lincoln, Nebraska, listed on the roster as Omaha Lincoln & Beatrice 4. I should note that this car's identity is somewhat in doubt; though claimed by the college as ex-OL&B 4, a statement some years back from Ira Schreiber suggested that this is actually an ex-Virginia Electric Power Birney and not the ex-Baltimore, ex-OL&B car its current owners claims. How (and why) a Virginia Birney would have gotten out to Nebraska, I'm not sure. Unfortunately current information on the Lincoln car is difficult to come by and it seems to spend its time stored out of the public eye.

And here's a photo of the Lincoln car back in 2008 during its moment in the spotlight.