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| 183
and 189 were built for Dallas Railways in 1913 by St. Louis Car Company.
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| They
are typical Stone and Webster design streetcars, sisters to our operating 186.
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| In
1991 John Landrum discovered the two cars built into a home in Lewisville, a few
miles north Dallas. |
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| The
cars formed the north and south walls of the structure and had been in place since
the early 1950s. |
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| 183
and 189 were in excellent condition; original paint still existed on the sides
of the trolleys that faced the inside of the structure. |
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| Since
the building was about to be demolished, on January 10, 1994, MATA volunteers
went to Lewisville and tore the warehouse down to expose and recover the cars. |
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We moved the cars to temporary storage
at the Ables Machine Movers yard in Denton, TX. |
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| On
March 17, 1994, we transferred the cars to covered storage at the vacant Texas
Instruments Lewisville Plant. Ables loaned us some of their heavy equipment to
expedite the job. |
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| Due
to the TI facility having been sold in 2002, we moved the cars for the third time
- to their current resting place: our open-air storage lot in East Dallas. |
