Friday, January 5, 2018

A new state has a preserved electric car

Today is something of a hallmark day - I've added another state to the PNAERC list as containing within its boundaries a preserved electric car! Nick Christiansen helpfully submitted as an update the fact that Oregon Electric 133, formerly in use (though recently in disuse) on the Black Hills Central as a locomotive-hauled coach, was sold in May 2017 to a business in Soldotna, Alaska. Yes, that Soldotna, not the one in your state. Anyway, there are some photos here (including the one above) that suggest the car was headed to Alaska Berries Winery however this article has more information and makes it appear that car 133 was actually purchased by a different business, a coffee shop. The coffee shop owner has already rebuilt an ex-C&NW gallery car from Chicago and opened it as "Brew 602" so that's what car 133's new owner is noted as in the roster.

So there are now 47 states listed on PNAERC along with the various Canadian provinces and other countries. Of the three remaining states with no identified electric cars, one - Hawaii - is probably fairly obvious (though there may actually be a Birney in a spaghetti restaurant in Honolulu but I haven't been able to confirm that or find any solid information on it). Care to guess at the other two states we're missing?

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