Fonda Johnstown & Gloversville streetcar 29, shown above in an Owen Dalton photo from a couple of years ago and featured a couple of years ago on this blog, is no more. Marc Glucksman of River Rail Photo alerted me to the fact that it had been scrapped, and Ann from the Walter Elwood Museum in Amsterdam, New York - the streetcar's former location - kindly filled in the details via email. It seems that the car had been privately owned and moved to a spot behind the museum back in 2015. The owner intended to restore the car for display, but this work never commenced and the car's condition steadily deteriorated. The museum was forced to demand the car's removal last year, and the owner - evidently unable to find another site for it - dismantled the car in November. The car was somewhat historic, as the only FJ&G streetcar in existence and a rare Wason pre-Birney single-trucker, but was obviously in poor shape. It has been removed from the PNAERC list.
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