H&F car relocated in Myersville

Thanks to Bill Wall, who has forwarded along a link (here) to some photo and information regarding Hagerstown & Frederick 150. The last I'd heard of this car, in May, it had been acquired by the City of Myersville, MD and had presumably been moved to the city's Harp Park. The link confirms that this is the case and contains some current (as of the move, which I believe was roughly a year ago) photos of the car including the one above. This same web page also includes some detailed plans for the new town library, which will include car 150 as a display piece within a room at the back of the library. It sounds like a very impressive plan and one that will ensure the car's continued preservation and accessibility to the public.

As late as the H&F lasted - the mid-1950s - and as popular as it was with traction fans, not a single car from the line was preserved intact. There are only three bodies around, all in roughly comparable condition: car 150, a decidedly non-H&F-standard streetcar built for Columbia, SC (and the only surviving car from that southern city); homebuilt box motor number 5; and car 168, the only classic H&F combine still around. All three are on display along the old H&F itself but car 150 will soon be the only one with an indoor home.