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Pennsylvania's First Operating Trolley Museum
Pennsylvania's First Operating Trolley Museum
One of the most useful trolleys at our museum is our track service car. Car 64 from Porto, Portugal, was built in the company shops in the 1930’s. According to the Porto trolley museum, some of these cars hauled coal…
This car was traded in March, 2012 to the National Capital Trolley Museum for Iowa Terminal #3. Read all about the trade here. Over a Century of Sweeping Snow! Car #09 was built in 1898 by the McGuire Cummings Manufacturing…
Our museum’s only example of a rapid transit car is from Philadelphia, PA. Car 1009 was built in 1936 by hometown builder J.G. Brill Car Co. It was used on the Benjamin Franklin bridge operating between Philadelphia and Camden, NJ.
Car 315 is an interurban car built in 1909 by the Kuhlman Car Co. of Cleveland, OH, a subsidiary of the J.G. Brill Co. It was built for the Aurora Elgin & Chicago Railroad which was later known as the…
One of the most famous interurban trolleys ever built was the series of Bullet cars used on the Philadelphia & Western Railroad’s Norristown line. Car 205 was built in 1931 by the J.G. Brill Co. in Philadelphia at a cost…