The Seashore Trolley Museum is underway with its "fourth round of re-homing" and in addition to the South Shore car and Long Island Rail Road car mentioned here back in July, there's a third car that's available: MBTA 3283, a line car built in 1949. Car 3283 is pretty unremarkable; it's the only car on the list built by Henry Dow, but Dow wasn't a car builder, it was a local company that (if I recall correctly) mostly built houses. The most interesting thing about the car is probably the story, on Seashore's deaccession listing, about its involvement in a major head-on collision with another work car in 1969 that killed a man and injured 16 more, in part the result of the crews of both cars having been drinking. Ah, the good? old days...
Regardless, the car arrived at Seashore in 2007 and ran briefly before it was sidelined with electrical issues. If you're interested in 3283, there's a catch: Seashore is keeping the trucks, motors, and electrical equipment. Only the body is available. With the market for line car bodies pretty slim, this car will mostly likely end up scrapped, but only time will tell for sure.
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