Until now, six cars had been listed as owned by NTHT, though the organization does not seem to have owned any of its own property, meaning the six cars were all scattered around the greater Fort Worth area on various other people's properties. Two of the six cars, Tandy Subway 1 and 4, have been scrapped. These two squared-off body rebuilt PCC cars had been stored in a parking lot in Fort Worth and had been offered for sale (see here), but found no takers and have now been cut up. Intriguingly, there may only be one "Winnebago" Tandy car left, the car McKinney Avenue owns and now has stored out of service. Two others, numbers 3 and 6, are on the PNAERC roster as being stored in Brookville, PA, but these may have been scrapped for parts already - I haven't been able to get confirmation one way or another.
The other four cars that were owned by NTHT are all ex-Northern Texas Traction car bodies which, evidently, still exist, and have presumably not been moved from their respective storage locations. There are two streetcars in Azle, Texas, northwest of Fort Worth; a freight motor in Benbrook, Texas, southwest of Fort Worth; and a double-truck Birney on private property within the city of Fort Worth. The PNAERC list has been updated to remove the two scrapped Tandy cars and to list the ex-NTT cars as being under private ownership in their respective locations. Any further information on the condition of these cars, or plans for their future, is always appreciated.
Marty Leonard has one of the Winnebago cars. It is being stored at the TRWD shops.
ReplyDeleteWell, that's interesting! Do you by any chance know which TRWD facility that is, and/or what car number? One of the cars that was in the parking lot in Fort Worth had been owned by the Leonard family, I believe.
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