Navy submarine sound traction action Wrote:
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> From my 16K TRS-80 Color Computer Wrote:
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> > I forgot about that Seal Beach car. OERM
> should
> > have taken it.
> >
> > I guess OERM is not the trolley-centric museum
> it
> > once was.
>
> Why? For another chicken shack? Ex-Newport line
> seal way is a perfect place for that mess.
>
> Bigger fish to fry at the potato cave.
>
> Fire up 314!
> [www.railwaypreservation.com]
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I knew that there was a big kerfuffle over this car in Seal Beach a couple of years ago, and I'm glad to see some folks have stepped up to help. The situation seemed uncertain for a while.

I can also understand why OERM would think twice about acquiring this car for their collection, as it is in reality a completely stripped and gutted "shell" that is sitting on what appear to be some old leaf spring caboose trucks, which was going to be dumped in the ocean to create a sand reef.

So other than being a last unique example of this sort of car, it would need everything from trolley poles, to controllers, to traction motors, and new trucks, to be found and/or made new, and then reinstalled in a complete rebuild, to ever make it part of any "operable" collection.