COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Incredible images of the historic trolley from the old Spaghetti Warehouse building show it being transported through Downtown.
The photos and videos were sent to NBC4 by Rickenbacker Woods Foundation Executive Director Michael Aaron.
After being extracted from the structure in Franklinton on Monday, the trolley was moved to a secure facility on Wednesday. It will eventually sit on a site near the boyhood home of Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, a World War I fighter pilot, where it will be featured in an exhibit honoring African American inventor Granville T. Woods.
Historian and RWF board member Doreen Uhas Sauer shared more about Woods in an email to NBC4.

“The prolific inventor was born in Columbus, lived part of his life on Livingston Avenue … worked in the early decades of the fast-moving Industrial Revolution in Ohio on electrical patents which made railroad (and trolley) systems possible and, most importantly, safer,” wrote Sauer. “The trolley connects Livingston Avenue neighborhoods — known as the Trolley District for the early appearance of them in the city — and links a unique system of transportation which brought citizens and visitors out to Driving Park to watch Eddie Rickenbacker, inventor and mechanic extraordinaire, race an auto against an airplane.”
The foundation is seeking $20,000 in an online fundraiser to cover moving and storing the trolley until it can be permanently fastened to a platform on the grounds at 1334 E. Livingston Ave.
RWF previously secured $500,000 of federal funding through the city through a Community Development Block Grant to build a park that will house the trolley, creating an educational space highlighting Woods’ contributions to transportation and communication technology.