Nostalgia & History > Tandy (Leonard's) subway shops in Ft.Worth

Nov 81
A few shots at the shop area.
The Tandy Center Subway was originally built by Leonard's Department Store in 1963 from its parking lot to the store (0.7 miles).
Leonard's received 15 PCC cars from the Washington DC transit system.
Tandy took over in 1967.
They acquired some PCC cars from Boston - a few of which are shown in storage.
I'm not sure if any PCC cars were operating when I was there. The boxlike cars were built from some of the PCC units.
Operations ended in 2002.

Gary

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Thanks for the look at this interesting piece of history.  Amazing they had that many cars for the short distance, here's a background from Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_Center_Subway

Rich

Wonderful post. Prior to this I have never seen photos from the shop area.
Bob

Those cars were heavily used.  Bad mistake the city of Ft Worth made in not taking over this trolly with its huge parking lots.

The rail line was a clever solution to Leonard's problem.

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I was fortunate to ride this operation when on a trip to ride the Heartland Flyer many years ago.  Bummer it's gone.  Certainly a unique transit system. 

Stan Hunter
Fair Oaks, CA

The location of this operation was key to its success.  While you got out in Leonard's store you had excellent closeness to several other Dept stores, and the court house.  Jurors used it heavily.  The tunnel is still there today.

I have a ground switch throw mechanism from the Leonard's Subway, acquired it when it was abandoned.

Was there a fare for riding?

Interesting that a department store would, I assume,
have a railroad department.