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Twin State Gas & Electric No. 8 was built by Wason in 1917 for use on the utility's only traction property, the Brattleboro Street Railroad. It incorporated all the economies plus a few added austerity features resulting from World War I conditions. No. 8 had served in secondary service as a tool shed on a farm in South Dummerston, Vermont, and the carbody was donated to the museum in 1957 by Maud and Charles Taft. This incomplete car is the museum's only representative of Vermont, whose largely rural environment led to early abandonment of that state's relatively few street railways.
History from Historic Cars: The National Collection at the Seashore Trolley Museum by Ben Minnich
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