The Facebook page of the Seashore Trolley Museum confirms that the CLRV they purchased back in 2020, Toronto Transit Commission 4068, is en route from its three-year storage location at Halton County to Kennebunkport. The car is shown above being winched onto a flatbed truck earlier this week. Seashore has constructed a car-length piece of Toronto-gauge panel track in their bus display area on which to put this car. Car 4068 is the second CLRV to be preserved south of the border, joining car 4034, which moved to the Illinois Railway Museum in 2019 and has likewise been stored on a piece of Toronto-gauge panel track since.
I'm not certain what the long-term plan for car 4068 is. When it was acquired three years ago, a second car, 4133, was also moved to Halton County with the aim of scrapping it for parts for 4068. As far as I know, 4133 is still at Halton County, but I'm not certain whether Seashore still plans to strip it for parts or whether they've decided to make 4068 a permanently static display piece.
As an aside, of the 14 total CLRVs preserved, two more are stored at Halton County on behalf of their owner, the American Industrial Mining Museum aka Buckeye Lake Trolley, until they can be moved south to the States; two have been retained by the TTC; and one is in private ownership in Ontario. That leaves no fewer than six of the cars that have been acquired by Halton County.
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