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[quote user="Simon Reed"] Help! Does anyone have a current roster for MATA, preferably including the origins of each car?I've struggled for a long time on various search engines for this information and can't find anything, so any help will be much appreciated.Thanks.[/quote]According to a report that was presented to the American Public Transit Association meeting in 2000, the Memphis trolley fleet consisted of 19 restored trolleys. It included seven 19-seat wood-body vehicles and seven 52-seat metal-body vehicles. Two of the seven 19-seat vehicles were manufactured by the Brill Company in 1912. The other five were previously built and operated in Oporto, Portugal and date from the 1920s to 1940s. All seven of the 52-seat vehicles originated in Melbourne, Australia. These vehicles are believed to date from the 1920s to 1940s.  This information is nearly eight years old, so undoubtedly there have been changes in the composition of the fleet.  But the website features one of the Brill cars and one of the Aussie cars, so they are probably still running.   A sister Melbourne car runs on the McKinney Avenue Trolley Line in Dallas.  It is named aptly Matilda.  The McKinney Avenue line also operates a Brill car and one of the Oporto cars.  I lived in Melbourne, Australia from 1999 to 2004.  It has the most extensive tram (streetcar) system in the Southern Hemisphere.  It is quick, comfortable, dependable, and economical.  I used it every day to get to and from work.
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