It's not unusual for me to find out about a change to a preserved car - a restoration project, a sale, maybe a scrapping - a few years after it happened. Some museums don't have as robust an online presence as others and there are a number of trolley museums where I simply don't happen to be in regular contact with anyone who volunteers there. Such is the case with the restoration of Montreal Street Railway 274.
Looking for something largely unrelated, I happened upon
this photo taken in 2018 of car 274. The car in question was the first piece of equipment acquired by the Canadian Railway Museum, back in 1950, so it's historic for that alone. But it's also a very old car, dating to 1894, and it was built by Newburyport, a builder with only
two preserved products. I had been told about a decade ago by Gord McOuat that car 274 was being cosmetically restored by CRM but I hadn't heard anything about it since and managed to miss any announcements the museum might have put out about completion of the project. As a comparison, this is what it looked like prior to cosmetic restoration:
Photo from this site. So that's quite an impressive transformation. The car's condition, formerly listed as "under restoration," has now been updated to "displayed inoperable."
If you come across a car on the list whose information is out-of-date, please drop me an email. I'm always interested in keeping listings as current as possible. Thanks!
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