Yet another San Diego U2 preserved

Thanks to Chris Baldwin of the Orange Empire Railway Museum, who alerted me to the fact that at the end of March yet another San Diego U2 type LRV made it into preservation. This time it was SDMTS 1002, donated to the San Diego Electric Railway Association and moved to that organization's site at National City. The car is now on static display there along with an unusual assortment of other traction equipment including an ex-St. Louis Public Service PCC, a Seattle Birney, and a couple of foreign single-truckers along with one ex-San Diego California car.

This is the seventh San Diego U2 to be preserved, including one car that SDMTS has apparently earmarked for its own historic collection. That's equal to the number of extant Boeing-Vertol LRV cars, and that number of Boeing cars includes a couple of work cars retained by the MBTA that may or may not make it into museum preservation. There are currently no light rail cars that aren't either Boeing LRVs or San Diego U2s on the PNAERC list. But you never know when that might change!