Friday, May 4, 2018

Hagerstown & Frederick car news

Myersville 150 Trolley Owned by my Cousin Don Easterday that my Grandfather Roy Garnand May have Driven
A couple of interesting articles about Hagerstown & Frederick 150, one of three surviving pieces of equipment from that line, came to my attention recently. The first is here: an article from June 2017 stating that Don Easterday, longtime owner of car 150 and the reason it was saved and cosmetically restored, had passed away in November 2016. The article goes on to say that plans are afoot to place the car on display at a new library in Myersville.

Here's the second article, from last November, stating that Myersville had approved expenditures to move car 150 to a city park in town for storage until the library is built. I wasn't able to find any more recent information but my best guess is that car 150 is currently at the city park and that it is now owned by the city. As such, its listing in the PNAERC roster has been appropriately updated.

As an aside, H&F 150 is quite significant as a car from that system, but it's also rare as one of only four streetcars preserved that ran in South Carolina (and the only one of the four from Columbia) and one of only three streetcars built by the Southern Car Company.

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