Box Motor for Sale

Thanks to Jeron Glander for alerting me to the fact that Texas Electric 507, a freight motor built by St. Louis Car Company in 1907 for Texas Traction, has been listed for sale on Ozark Mountain Railcar. This car is (at least, to my knowledge, still) owned by the City of Waxahachie, which acquired it in 2018 as outlined here. The web page about the plans for car 507 is still visible here, but it appears that priorities have changed. The asking price for the car is $30,000, which doesn't sound very serious, but I can only assume it's negotiable. The car itself is obviously just a body, but appears more solid than a lot of bodies, presumably because it was mostly inside of a barn for many years.

Car 507 is one of just two TE box motors preserved, and may be the better of the two in terms of condition. It would be a shame to see it cut up - another TE box motor was just recently scrapped - but box motors are a tough sell to railway museums.