Gated Entry

Twin City Rapid Transit Co.1267 (Minneapolis and St. Paul ) at Seashore Trolley Museum

The "gate cars" of the Twin Cities Rapid Transit Company were prominent in Minneapolis and St. Paul for a long period. One of these gate cars is No. 1267, built by TCRT in its Snelling Shops in 1907. The H-6 series to which Car 1267 belongs, was the last production at TCRT's old 31st and Nicollet shop before the famed Snelling facility opened, but the line was moved in mid-production and was resumed with Car 1266 in September. The car was donated to Seashore in 1953 by Fred Albin Ossanna, Twin Cities Lines' controversial president. Ossanna had recently acquired the company via a hostile takeover and was then in process of liquidating the assets. It would go down in history as the largest dismantlement of a streetcar system over the shortest time. Some 400 miles of track and 700 streetcars were abandoned and scrapped in favor of diesel buses over a 22 month period. No. 1267 is a single end car, which can be operated from the front end only, and is arranged for rear entrance and exit. At the rear of the car are wide steps and a large platform with folding wire gates instead of doors.