Plow leaves Seashore

It came to my attention recently that MBTA 5122, one of several Boston snow plows converted from Type 3 semiconvertibles to have been acquired by the Seashore Trolley Museum, was sold last year. The above photo from here shows the car in 2010 and it wasn't in the best shape then, so it's not too hard to see why Seashore would be willing to let it go. It's the first electric car deaccessed by Seashore since they sent their Cleveland trailer to Northern Ohio in 2010.

Car 5122 was built by St. Louis in 1908 and was later rebuilt as a snow plow. It was one of six of these plows that made their way to Seashore, with most arriving in the 1990s and 2000s. This one showed up in Kennebunkport in 1995 and I'm not sure whether it ever ran at Seashore, but it was out of service for years (one or two of the other Type 3 snow plows in the collection are regular work cars and locomotives at the museum).

It was sold last year to the Samuel Slater Experience, the new museum in Webster, Massachusetts that only recently showed up on the PNAERC list as described here. Many thanks to Tom Tello for confirming this for me. As near as I can tell, SSE decided at some point that they needed a streetcar for their museum but it seems they've changed course once or twice deciding how best to accomplish that. This video on Facebook (no login required) is from November 2019 and describes efforts to have a replica streetcar built by a contractor. By mid-2020, it appears they had instead decided to acquire car 5122 from Seashore. And by October 2020, they were the proud owners of a Los Angeles Railway single-trucker in need of little or no restoration work.

I tried contacting the Webster museum but nobody got back to me, so I don't know what their plans are for 5122. Perhaps it will be restored and put elsewhere in the museum, or perhaps its role has been filled by the LARy car. If anyone finds out where it is and what its owners are doing with it, please let me know. In the meantime, on the PNAERC list its ownership has been updated and its status has been changed to "unknown."

EDIT: This car has been scrapped, as described here.