Photograph from the Old Spaghetti Factory website showing Car 801 in situ.

Diners at Portland’s Old Spaghetti Company restaurant on the South Waterfront can see this Birney Safety Car, acquired in 1919 by the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company. Mounted on standard-gauge trucks, this car mainly saw service on the short Murraymead and Eastmoreland stub lines. When the new “Broadway” cars took over the 800-series numbering in 1932, this car was renumbered as Car No. 24, following the existing numbering sequence of the narrow-gauge Birney cars. This car was retired in 1938, and seems to have been sold to someone in the Mount Scott area.

It was rediscovered, restored and placed in the original Old Spaghetti Factory in downtown Portland in 1969. When the restaurant moved to its current location in 1983, the car was modified again – a fake clerestory roof was added (which Birney cars never had), and for a while it was painted green and cream. The livery is now a more pleasing red and cream, although the typography along the sides of the car is certainly not accurate. The roll signs seem to be original, and the inside of the car has a lovely period ambience.

Other Portland streetcars are at the Newport Beach (No. 611) and Sacramento (No. 809 – modified and shortened) Old Spaghetti Factories in California.

Car 801 in service, running on the Murraymead line.

See also this article from September 1968 explaining how the OSF originally acquired the car: Spaghetti Factory Gets Streetcar*