Philadelphia snow sweeper scrapped

Word comes along that Philadelphia snow sweeper C-124 has been parted out and scrapped. This was a standard 1923 Brill-built double-truck sweeper, identical to several others in preservation, that was in service into the early 1970s. It initially went to the Ohio Railway Museum in Worthington but at some later point, likely in the 1980s or early 1990s, it was sold to the owner of the Waterfront Electric in Toledo. This later became the Grand Rapids Electric Railway in Grand Rapids, Ohio but was never open to the public in that location. Most of the equipment at the GRER site went to Northern Ohio a few years back but two cars remained and, in 2014, were acquired by the adjacent Toledo Lake Erie & Western tourist railroad. Sweeper C-124 was one of these and it was sold to be stripped for parts for other preserved sweepers of this series.

Even with the loss of C-124 there are nine of these big Philadelphia sweepers preserved. They're in a range of conditions, from grounded body to operating car, but at least two have been stored inside ever since they left service and there's no risk of the type going extinct or even coming close. As for the TLE&W, the last remaining electric car from the GRER collection left in situ is Chicago Transit Authority 4439, still stored inside.