Bullet car removed from list

I've received confirmation that ex-Philadelphia & Western "Bullet car" 204 was scrapped at the Museum of Transportation within the last couple of years. As with the rest of the series of ten Bullets, car 204 was built by Brill in 1931 and ran on the P&W - later Red Arrow, later SEPTA - for some 50 years. This car was retired in 1986 and for some reason its stripped shell went to the Delaware Car Company in Wilmington where it spent several years plinthed alongside the Northeast Corridor (photo here). In 1996 it was acquired by the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis and moved there. Not much was ever done with it and I believe that for the entirety of its time at MOT it was stored outside the "trolley building" at the bottom of the hill. The photo above was taken by yours truly in 2009 and the car's condition didn't improve in the years following this. After being offered to other museums with no takers, it was cut up.

While the Bullets are iconic cars, from an historical perspective this is really no loss. First, the car was only a shell, missing its interior, trucks, and all of its underbody equipment. More importantly, there are still six out of the original ten* P&W Bullet cars around (not to mention three out of the original five FJ&G Bullets) and those six are all complete, or substantially complete, cars. One of them is even in running condition.

*Yes, I know there were eleven because one was built shortly after the others to replace a car destroyed by fire. But there were only ten P&W Bullets at any one time.