Here's another offering from Kansas City, MO. This retired PCC single-ended trolley is located at 426 Delaware Street and West Fifth.
Kansas City Public Service #551 was supposed to be made into Trolley Tom's Ice Cream, then into a MadeinKC store. It doesn't seem as though either happened but the trolley is still on public display. Here are the details, some pictures, and links to more pictures and more information.
Built in 1947 by the St. Louis Car Company, car #551 was in service for the Kansas City Public Service from that year until 1957. It then went to Toronto, San Francisco, and the Western Railway Museum in Rio Vista, CA, respectively. In 2006, it was returned to Kansas City and placed on display outside of the Kansas City Union Station until 2016. Here are rrpicturearchives.net pictures from its Kansas City Union Station days.
For this car's "Facts and Figures" and full dates and details of prior ownership, check out this BERA link. (It hasn't been updated to include the fact that Trolley Tom's Ice Cream never seemed to get off the ground.)
Here are some screen caps from Google Maps using June 2018 images -- they show the side and a bit of the rear. I got a chuckle from the use of the railroad ties that support the rails. Unfortunately, it is no longer covered and there is some visible rust and damage to the front doors:
Here's a news story from 11 September 2017 about the car's move from Union Station to its new location and the intention to use it as an ice-cream parlor. Photos include the cranes used to lift and remove it from Union Station, a vintage PCC car photo, and a nice shot of a current street car passing #511.
That story was followed by this story from 30 October 2018 saying that a MadeinKC shop was going to open there. The MadeinKC website makes no mention of this location, so I'm guessing that fell through as well.
Lastly, here's a Google Maps view that shows the brick building that the trolley is next to -- this building, not the trolley, contains a popular ice cream shop. That would have made for some stiff competition had Trolley Tom Ice Cream ever become reality.
One final note: This car traveled the Country Club route, which if I understand the geography correctly, was were the interurban car restaurant (Streetcar Named Desire Restaurant) featured in the prior post was located.
The KPSC logo found on the side of #551:
Tomlinson Run Railroad
