More Removals

Thanks again to Wesley Paulson, who has reached out to more people to dig up answers to questions about cars on the list! The result, for today, is two more removals.

The first is Groton & Stonington 106, a double-truck wedge plow built by Taunton in 1906 that's shown above in a photo I took back in 2007. Thanks to Richmond Bates of the Seashore Trolley Museum for confirming that car 106 - or what was left of it - is no longer there, and hasn't been around for some time. The car is presumed scrapped and has been taken off the PNAERC list. In theory, this was an historic piece - one of only three Taunton snow plows preserved and the only double-trucker (now only two Taunton plows remain, both double-truck Brooklyn cars at Branford). In practice, though, there obviously wasn't much left of the car.

EDIT: Many thanks to Paul Schneble, who dug up more information on this history of G&S 106. It turns out that it wasn't built by Taunton: it was built in the company shops by Marquardt Brothers of Groton, CT, in 1908 as express car 1, and apparently became plow 106 later. Seashore initially acquired the car as a representative Taunton product, but when its actual origins were discovered, the primary reason for keeping it evaporated and the car was later disposed of.

The other removal is the car shown above, Philadelphia PCC 2131, which David Lippincott says was sold by the Pikes Peak Historical Street Railway to a rancher in Oklahoma a few years back. The image above dates to 2018 and is from an eBay listing - read more here - so now we know what ended up happening to the car. I've taken it off the PNAERC list, but who knows, maybe it will show up on the non-preserved electric cars list at some point, if I find out where it ended up. In the meantime, PPHSR has several other Philadelphia PCCs in better shape in storage at their site.