KINGSTON, N.Y. --- PATH car 143 was the last train in the World Trade Center PATH station before the Twin Towers collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001.

“This train was abandoned; it really was the last train," said Kingston Trolley Museum President Erik Garces.

It made its way to the Kingston Trolley Museum Wednesday after sitting in an airline hangar at John F. Kennedy International Airport for the last eight years. It was one of two PATH trains found at the site with minimal damage.

"They left Hoboken at 8:42 a.m.," said Shore Line Trolley Museum President Alan Zelazo of East Haven, Conn., where the second PATH train car is kept. "When it probably left the second station in Pavonia, Newport, was probably when the buildings got hit. So it basically left in peacetime and ended up in a war zone."

Car 143 is a physical time capsule of September 11. Original advertisements from during that time adorn the walls. Port Authority employees evacuated all crew and riders that morning. The five additional cars that were behind Car 143 were crushed underneath the collapsing World Trade Center towers.

"It was something of a miracle that they survived in a little spot where there was just no damage," Garces said.

The train was hauled into the Museum, but engineers were unsure if they train would move on its wheels.

"It was a real question when it got here: Would the wheels spin? Beause the wheels hadn't spun since September 11, 2001,” Garces said. "So when we wheeled it here, that’s the first time in 15 years it’s been moved."

Officials with the Trolley Museum say they're excited they were able to bring the car to the Hudson Valley.

"It creates a niche for the trolley museum to celebrate an event which will commemorate one of the worst disasters in the history of the United States," Kingston Trolley Museum Board Member Nancy Riseley said.

"This is an incredible gift from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey," Garces said. "It's the kind of gift that's a game changer for our museum, because it puts us on the map and it gives the people who live in the area in the Hudson Valley ... now they've got someplace to come and reflect on the September 11 events."

The museum plans to add an additional building for a 9-11 memorial in a few years.