KINGSTON, N.Y. — A railcar from the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority has joined the collection of the Trolley Museum of New York, arriving at the museum on Tuesday, April 25.
Car No. 510, built in 1981 by Société Franco-Belge, will be on display when the museum opens for the 2023 season on Saturday, May 6. The car, part of the last group of CQ310 cars delivered to MARTA between 1979 and 1981, is part of a growing number of subway cars, trolleys, and buses from cities throughout the Northeast and Europe to join the museum’s collection.
The museum worked with MARTA and Silk Road Trucking, which delivered the car, for two years to make the donation a reality. It becomes the second MARTA car to be preserved, joining car No. 509, at the Southeast Railway Museum in Duluth, Ga. [see “Georgia museum to preserve original MARTA railcar,” Trains News Wire, Nov. 22, 2022]. Like that car, No. 510 was built as a single car, with cabs at both ends; it and all current MARTA rolling stock is being replaced by a new fleet of Stadler-built equipment [see “MARTA unveils new cars …,” News Wire, Dec. 16, 2022].
In conjunction with the arrival of the MARTA car, the museum’s Port Authorth Trans-Hudson Car No. 143, one of two to survive the 9/11 attacks, has been moved inside the museum building to become part of a revised exhibit to debut on the 22nd anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
