Portland Traction line car scrapped

It was, perhaps, inevitable: Portland Traction 1058, the wooden line car pictured above (Dave's Rail Pix photo) when it was still in service in the 1950s, has been scrapped in Snoqualmie, Washington by the Northwest Railway Museum. It is a significant loss from an historical standpoint, albeit probably unavoidable at this late date. The car began life as an interurban coach built by Niles in 1903 for Jersey City Traction, making it the last existing interurban car from the state of New Jersey. It didn't stay in the Garden State long though; in 1906 it was sold to Oregon Water Power as its car 58, later becoming Portland Railway Light & Power 1058. In 1929 it was rebuilt as a line car and lasted in that form until the end of electric service on Portland Traction in 1958. When it was retired, it was complete and in reasonably good shape, but it was sold to an individual who moved it to a siding in the Snoqualmie rain forest near the Northwest Railway Museum. There among the trees it mouldered for sixty years until the car, and a couple of others on the same siding, was donated to NWRM. Car 1058 was judged too far gone to save and has now been scrapped, with its Brill 27 trucks and GE Type M control equipment going to the Oregon Electric Railway Historical Society in Brooks, Oregon. Thanks to David Johnston for the update.

UPDATE: A photo taken of this car in August 2018 can be found here. A very unfortunate loss!

SECOND UPDATE: It seems that final disassembly of this car didn't take place until May 2019, when many of its mechanical components were removed and what was left of the car's body was finally disposed of. Either way, it's gone now.