Among Seashore's impressive collection of pre-1900 streetcars is this 1895 Laconia product, West End Street Railway 235. It survived in service into the preservation era by being readapted for use first as a sand car and then later as a rail grinder. Seashore acquired the car in 1967.

Photographed by Frank Hicks, June 24, 2007.
Added to the photo archive by Frank Hicks, July 6, 2007.
Railroad: Seashore Trolley Museum.

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