Dallas PCC to be disposed of

Word comes from a worker at the Middletown & Hummelstown in Pennsylvania that Boston PCC 3323, a double-ender built by Pullman-Standard in 1945 as Dallas Railway & Terminal 605, is to be scrapped in the coming weeks if another museum doesn't step forward to take it. The car is shown above in a 2002 photo; while it's complete, its condition hasn't improved any in the 17 years since the picture was taken and it suffers from the severe body rot common to preserved cars of this series. This particular car ran in Boston from 1958 until 1980, when it went to Branford; that museum traded it (and a redundant South Brooklyn box motor) to the M&H in exchange for Red Arrow 84 in 1992.

It's not clear to me whether this is envisioned to be part of a larger site cleanup or whether 3323 is the only car currently on the chopping block in Middletown. Its loss would not be of great significance, given the other eleven cars of this type extant, but it is notable that nine of those are at Seashore and a tenth is rotting away in Windber, PA. The other only car of this type in a museum other than Seashore (following the recent loss of 3334) is 3333 at Warehouse Point.