Winnipeg Railway Museum closing

It's been reported that the Winnipeg Railway Museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is closing at the end of this year. The museum is housed in the city's railway station, which is also used by VIA and is apparently now being eyed by a public transit project. So they've lost their lease and are being evicted. The article about this event includes some fairly optimistic language from museum representatives, and it sounds like this was expected sooner or later, so hopefully they have a workable plan in place to relocate. This is just another reminder than any museum that doesn't own its own land is living on the precipice of eviction.

WRM is home to two pieces of electric equipment. The more significant, pictured above in a photo from this 2018 article, is Winnipeg Electric Railway 356. Even though the Winnipeg streetcar system remained in operation until 1955 - and was using big wooden deck-roof cars right up until the end - not a single car from the system was preserved intact. A number of cars were sold as bodies, and a handful are still around in various stages of disrepair, but this is the only streetcar from Winnipeg that can be considered preserved. As of 2018 it was undergoing restoration work.

The other is Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting 95, one of two heavily-rebuilt electric locomotives from that Flin Flon operation to be preserved. This one is an oddity: a four-wheel 250-volt switcher built by GE in 1928. I have very little information on its history or electrical/mechanical equipment.