Two cars deaccessed by Seashore

As of this past weekend, the Seashore Trolley Museum has deaccessed two of the cars in its collection and is making them available to other organizations.

The first, shown above in 2015 (both photos in this post from this page), is South Shore 32. It's a typical coach from that railroad, built by Standard Steel in 1929, and given how many identical cars are preserved elsewhere, it's not particularly significant. It's in rough shape, and all of its underbody electrical equipment was removed when it was moved to Seashore in the 1980s, but it's complete insofar as all of the equipment is on hand.

The other car is somewhat rarer: Long Island Rail Road 4137, an MP54A1 commuter MU car built by AC&F in 1930. This car is complete, though I don't think it has run at Seashore and it too is in rough shape (though I believe its steel roof has held up better than the canvas one on car 32). There aren't too many LIRR electric cars preserved: only five right now, of which one other besides this car has also been deaccessed by its owner.

It makes a lot of sense for Seashore to deaccess these cars. Neither has ever run in Kennebunkport, as far as I know, and given their huge size neither is a good candidate for normal operation at Seashore in the future. With luck, one or both cars may even find a new home elsewhere.