Car
143 /"Winnie"
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| • | Built as a single-ended PCC (President's Conference Car) streetcar by St. Louis Car Company in 1945 for (Washington) DC Transit. |
| • | Operated by DC Transit as car 1506 until abandonment of that system in February 1962. |
| • | Bought by Fort Worth's Marvin and Obediah Leonard for their proposed rail shuttle line from their vast parking lot to their downtown department store's basement station via a 1,400-foot subway that opened February 15, 1963. |
| • | The cars body was rebuilt twice and served as a subway car until the line was abandoned on August 30, 2002. |
| • | In February 2003 MATA purchased and trucked the car Dallas and touched down on M-Line tracks at the end of Cityplace Blvd. |
| • | We made modifications to transform Winnie from a subway car back to a streetcar. |
| • | Unfortunately, because of numerous ongoing mechanical failures, as of 2010, 143 has been out of service forseveral years. |
| • | To free up space in our cramped carbarn, on July 21, 2010 Winnie was moved to storage at the DART yars and shops. She will become a test bed for new technologies that may be applied to our ex-Toronto and ex-Dallas PCCs. |
| • | It is not known if Wnnie will ever return to active service.. |
