At one time in North America there were tens of thousands of miles of interurban electric railways. They were built primarily as people movers but some did carry freight as well. Within cities the electric cars could operate on the street railways but once in the country they had their own rights of way and could and did attain speeds up to 90 miles per hour . "Clinton" is one of a very few sleepers used on Interurban lines. Usually the distances between cities were too short to warrant overnight sleeper service. By 1937 the improved road system and the automobile had forced most interurbans out of business. However a very few struggled on into the mid 1950's.

The rounded ends on this car enabled them to negotiate the tight curves found on Interurban lines. Clinton was one of the first steel sleepers on the PGE and soon became a familiar sight at the rear of passenger trains. Prior to this the railway had operated with wooden sleepers purchased from the Oregon Electric Railway in 1925 and the sleeper Garibaldi which had come from the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic line in 1934.

In 1965 the PGE sold Clinton to Maynard Laing of Seattle who stored it at Snoqualmie WA.. In 1993 it was donated to the West Coast Railway Heritage Park through the generosity of the Estate of Mr. Maynard Laing. In late 1994 the car was brought home to Squamish.