The MVRTA "Seasonal" Trolleys: While the Xmas Trolley was kept, the MVRTA Marketing Department, headed by Mrs. Virginia King, ex-City Transit of course, came up with additional promotional trolleys. These were the famous Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter trolleys, each professionally decorated by the Blommel Sign Company.

These trolleys graced the local streets for two or three years until the almost-thirty-year-old Marmons became impossible to maintain. The Xmas Trolley lasted until 1988, when it was donated to San Francisco. It is still operated in December there. But the period during which the specially painted trolleys ran is still fresh in many local and far-away observers' minds as a time of exuberate marketing for the public transit cause.

No special painted ETB in 1967

#559 was stored each year until December, when it ran in revenue for one month. Its final year in Dayton as the Xmas trolley was 1988, after which it was donated to San Francisco Municipal Railway, where it survives today as their Xmas Trolley.

M-H #501 was restored in City Railway paint scheme in 1983 by MVRTA to celebrate 50 years of ETB's in Dayton. It was part of the MVRTA historical fleet until about 1988. After a few years on static display in Carillon Park, it was returned to MVRTA, where it remains inoperable.

In 1984 MVRTA restored #515 in City Transit Co's. paint scheme. After a few years use, it was sent to Dayton's Carillon park in trade for #501. #515 is on static display inside the Carillon Park Transportation Building.

All other special seasonal Marmon-Herrington ETB's have been long ago scrapped.

MVRTA's last Xmas trolley, all-white Flyer #942, had special seasonal panels affixed to its sides, had a music system, and served for two or three winters in the mid-90s. It was scrapped with the rest of the remaining Flyers in 1999.

Data from Don Brabson, Edw. O'Meara, and NATTA Databook II.