Buckeye Lake changes

One of the largest private collections of traction equipment in the country is Buckeye Lake Trolley, a collection east of Columbus, Ohio, near its namesake city. I noticed recently that additional buildings have been constructed on the BLT property, which is a good thing of course. But one result is that some of the equipment that was there has "disappeared" - either into the buildings or into a scrap bin, I don't know. So a few of the cars in the collection have had their statuses changed to "unknown" to reflect this uncertainty. Any updates are greatly appreciated!

A quick run-down of the 21 pieces of equipment located at the main site (follow along using the roster linked above):

Several cars are easy because they're still visible on Google aerial views. These include the three PAT 4000-series rebuilt PCCs, two ex-SLPS/ex-Shaker Heights PCCs, two C&LE freight motors, and a Philadelphia snow sweeper. So that's eight cars.

Then there's the equipment that I believe is probably stored in the barns that have been built over the past decade or so. This includes a trio of quite historic interurban car bodies, CSW&C 121, LSE 7, and CD&M 500, as well as the body of Columbus streetcar 664. Now we're up to twelve "likely" accounted for.

The next group is equipment that's unique, but in rough shape. These could be stored inside or they may not have fared well enough to be moved, I just don't know. Fostoria & Fremont 40, Toledo & Eastern 40, PSTC 63, PAT 1976, and Lake Shore Electric snow sweeper "C" all fall into this category. A few of these cars used to be stored out near the street and are no longer in their longtime spots. I've changed their statuses to "situation unknown."

That leaves just four cars. Two are ex-Cleveland, ex-Toronto, ex-Shaker PCC cars in truly terrible shape (all cars from this series suffered horribly from salt damage owing to their years north of the border). The other two, a Pittsburgh snow sweeper and a cut-down CTA work motor, were only on hand as parts sources, so they may still be knocking around or may have been "parted out." All four of these have also had their statuses changed to "situation unknown."