The Ohio Railway Museum is deaccessioning some items it can no longer care for, and that includes Detroit Street Railways Peter Witt car No. 3876. This is one two surviving standard Detroit streetcars from the mid-1920s. The car is listed for sale for $15,000 at the web site of railroad equipment broker Ozark Mountain Railcar, at
http://www.ozarkmountainrailcar.com/...ilway_3876.htm

The car is presumably located at the Museum in the Columbus suburb of Worthington, Ohio, just off Proprietor's Road.

Photos at the web site show the car to have been given a partial restoration in the 1960's and deteriorated quite a bit since then. It appears to need a new wood-and-canvas roof, upholstery, heavy rust repair to its riveted steel carbody, and probably new wood in its interior. Similar work was done to the surviving sister car at the Henry Ford before that car was sold to Illinois Railway Museum a few years ago.

Is anyone willing to repatriate and restore a 50-foot, 20-ton piece of Detroit history? Probably over $100,000 worth of expenditure would be required to restore the car visually, with more needed to make it runable, if there were 600-volt trolley track and overhead available. The Michigan Transit Museum in Mount Clemens is probably not in a position to take this on. Ideally someone with money, access to a disused secure industrial shop, and friends with metalworking ability, would acquire this car against the time when a place can be found to exhibit it in its home town.