> No museum in its right corporate mind would attempt to build an operating 3rd-rail line, BART-gauge or otherwise. It's just impractical. Look Back East - does anybody have operating LIRR equipment in a museum?

Actually, yes: Warehouse Point (its old name) has an LIRR MP-54 which they used to run on occasion using a trolley pole.

> So: stuffed & mounted is what you get; that can be done by an ordinary museum (say, Niles Canyon or CSRM). Would also say Rio Vista but they seem to have too many internal problems to put together something like a BART car exhibit - you'd probably see one trucked to OERM before Rio Vista could do something.

While possible, getting a BARTD car running on 600v would be a huge undertaking because regauging the trucks is almost insurmountable. Finding a standard gauge truck which a BARTD car would sit on might be within the realms of possiblity. At any rate, "stuffed and mounted" is essentially the only option. Since the volunteers like to run their trains, it would amount to a slow, decaying death (out in the elements).