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| 122
was built to a standard American design by the J. G. Brill Co. of Philadelphia
in 1909 for export to Porto, Portugal. | | •
| Rosie
is similar to early trolley cars that once operated in Dallas.. |
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| 122
was retired from service in Porto in 1978. | | • | MATA
Co-founder Phil Cobb saw 122 operating in the San Francisco Trolley Fair. He bought
the car and had it transported to Dallas. | | •
| Rosie
is the smallest car in the M-Line fleet. | | •
| She
was extensively overhauled in MATA's shop in 1990-1992. |
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| Rosewood
Properties and the Crescent, #122's sponsors, named her the "Crescent Rose." |
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| M-Line
operators began to referring to her as "Rosie," and soon the nicknaming
of our trolleys spread to the rest of the fleet. |
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| • | 186
was built by the St. Louis Car Co. for Dallas Consolidated Electric Street Railway
in 1913. | | • | She
served for 43 years in Dallas before being retired in 1956 when the streetcar
system was abandoned. | | • | She
was stripped of her running gear and electrical wiring and sold to a private individual
who used her for a hay barn in far North Dallas. | | • | Ed
Landrum, one of MATA's founders, acquired the car in 1979 and cosmetically restored
her. | | • | 186
was originally displayed in the Texas Sports Hall of Fame in Grand Prairie, Texas.
| | • | When
the museum closed, Ed removed 186 and donated it to MATA. |
| • | MATA
restored the Green Dragon to running order in 1989. | | • |
186
once actually ran on McKinney Avenue on the SMU line. Since SMU students fondly
called her "The Green Dragon," it seemed appropriate to restore that
nickname to the car.
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| Built
in 1925, 369 was in continuous service in Melbourne, Australia for six decades
before being purchased by the M-Line in 1986. | | •
| Matilda
arrived in Portland, Oregon by ship and was then trucked to Dallas. |
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| Acquired
in running order, Matilda only required cosmetic modifications to give her a more
North American appearance. | | •
| 369
is the M-Line's largest trolley and is popular as a charter car. | | • | 369
is the M-Line's only center-door trolley car in operation. |
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| Matilda
has a unique interior configuration with longitudinal seating at each end, and
transverse seating in the middle. |
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| 369
is divided into three compartments and has beautiful interior woodwork. |
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| Having
come from "Down Under," it was only natural to nickname her "Matilda."
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| Car
636 was part of an order for 25 trolley cars for the Dallas Railway Co. from the
J. G. Brill Co. | | •
| Petunia,
built in 1920, is a "Birney Safety Car," (or Birney, for short) named
after its designer, Charles O. Birney of the Stone & Webster Co.
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| The
design's numerous operational and safety improvements over earlier trolleys permitted
one man operation, thereby reducing operataing expenses. |
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| Ed
Landrum restored 636 and donated it to MATA. |
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Ed and John Landrum, Frank Schultz and Dean Smith designed and built 636's current
8-foot-long truck using parts from the extra Melbourne trucks purchased along
with Car 369. | | •
| Petunia
was named, so the story goes, for "her petite size and generally sweet nature."
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