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| Former DC Transit PCC on display at One City Place (300 Throckmorton Street) in Ft. Worth, Texas. |
Following the abandonment of street cars in Washington in 1962, the now surplus equipment was disposed of in a variety of ways including scrap, sale and donation. Multiple former DC Transit PCC cars made their way down to Fort Worth to serve on a newly built subway that shuttled shoppers at Leonard's Department Store from the parking lots to the store itself. The first of these new "subway" cars was Leonard's M&O Subway #1, former Capital Transit 1560, shown here on display at One City Place in Ft. Worth, Texas.
The car served on Leonard's M&O Subway (later the Tandy Subway after the Tandy Corporation purchased Leonard's) until sometime in the late 1970s or early 1980s, after which it was slated to be cut up for scrap. William Haffner, a former Tandy employee, heroically stepped in to save the car which was dangerously close to being scrapped. It was relocated to a farm, where it sat for more than 20 years, before finally being restored and placed on display in Ft. Worth. The complete story of how the car was saved is on display along with the #1 in a small Leonard's/Tandy museum at One City Place, 300 Throckmorton Street, Ft. Worth, Texas. Admission is free; check the building website for hours.
Some information included here is from the following sources:
http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?sel_owner_once=DC+Transit&sel_loc_state=Texas&sel_match_fld=&sel_match_val=&sel_range_fld=&sel_range_low=&sel_range_high=&sort_dir1=ASC&sort_dir2=ASC&pagelen=200&sel_submit=SUBMIT
Exhibit Displays, One City Place, 300 Throckmorton St, Ft. Worth, TX
National Capital Trolley Museum
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