Montgomery Streetcar Relocated

The last Montgomery, Alabama streetcar, Alabama Power 53, has been moved to a new home according to this article by the Montgomery Advisor. Until now the car, the body of which was cosmetically restored some years back, was on display under the train shed of the old Montgomery train station. It's now been relocated about a block away to the corner of Tallapoosa & Commerce where a roof has been built to protect it. It's so close, in fact, that the train station that was its former home is the brick structure visible through the car's windows in the photo above.

This car's identity is a bit of a mystery. For a while during its career as an historic display piece it was numbered 103, but it's actually from the 50-59 series of cars built for Montgomery by Perley Thomas in 1919. I've made a wild guess that the car may have been car 53, but in fact there may be no way to know exactly what its fleet number was. The car is significant not just as the only extant Montgomery car but also as the oldest preserved streetcar built by Perley-Thomas.