Mount Pleasant
Double-truck open car #1718 was built by Brill for Rio de Janeiro, and after retirement was brought to the United States.  It was acquired by the Midwest Electric Railway Museum in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa from the Magee Trolley Museum in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania when the latter museum collapsed in the mid-1970's after sustaining devestating hurricane damage.  Car #1718 operates every year during the Old Threshers' Reunion, and is shown in MERM's barn.
April 20, 2002
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