SLR #309 after rebuilding for service under 3000 vdc wires

Originally SLR 1000, this extraordinarily tiny boxcab is the sole survivor of a class of locos tiny enough to fit onto Boston Elevated trackage (The SLR 1000s were designed to fit the Boston Elevated gauge because both the Boston Elevated and the SLR thought that through running of parcel freight might happen, but it never did and the only time a 1000 ever ventured onto the elevated was to deliver mu cars.)

When the PV&T coverted the SLR to 3kvdc, most of the 1000s went to scrap, but the class engine instead went to the Portland shops and was rewired for 3kvdc, emerging like you see it here without 3rd rail shoes or a trolley pole, but with pilots attached to the trucks, corner steps, an all weather driver’s window, a pan (on a platform to reach uuuuuup to the PV&T height overhead), new roof-mounted lights, bell, and horns, and finally a spiffy blue & white paint scheme.

#309 as a museum exhibit

It stayed in service after this rebuilding until 2018, when it went to the historical fleet in Saint-Constant, PQ. There, it was rebuilt back to (more or less) how it looked when it was first shipped, including the link & pin couplers it had at that time.

It is not currently operational.

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    Mon Oct 25 23:07:02 PDT 2021