By Dan Hilborn
Published June 7, 2006
The restoration of the historic 1912 Interurban tram No. 1223 took another step closer to completion recently when city council gave approval to begin construction of a new $711,000 building to house the historic rail car inside Burnaby Village Museum.
The new tram display building will be located near the restored Parker Carousel, which was built in the very same year as the tram and underwent a similar community restoration project.
A non-profit group, Friends of Interurban 1223, is now in the final stages of the tram's restoration project, which is taking place in a city-owned warehouse on Royal Oak Avenue.
Volunteers and donors have given the car new brass luggage racks, restored the original cherry wood windows, refurbished the wooden seats and hung new leather straps in the car.
The vehicle was one of the original railcars that plied the old Interurban route between Vancouver and New Westminster before the system was closed in 1958.
Burnaby will pay for the tram display building using money from its casino gaming fund.
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