While looking for something else, I stumbled across this interesting link about Los Angeles Railway 57. You will recall that three years ago now, as described here, car 57 was put up for sale by the Poway-Midland in Poway, California. The history of this car is uncertain but as near as I can figure it was built in 1894 as LARy 54 and was later used as "material car" 9306. It's been questionably restored but still retains a lot of original material, including an ultra-rare McGuire single truck of some sort.
Anyway, last September it crossed the continent and wound up at the Samuel Slater Experience, a brand new "living history" museum in Webster, Massachusetts south of Worcester. There's a video of the car being put in its display spot here (Facebook link, no log-in required). From the SSE website, it looks like this car is being used to represent local streetcars and apparently visitors can go for a "ride" complete with the car rocking back and forth a bit while a movie plays outside the windows. It sounds kind of interesting. Regardless, SSE has now been added to the PNAERC list as a new owner (supplanting Poway-Midland, which no longer owns any electric cars) and car 57's record has been updated.
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