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Pennsylvania's First Operating Trolley Museum
Pennsylvania's First Operating Trolley Museum
The J.G. Brill Company of Philadelphia constructed car 162 in 1927 for the Philadelphia and Western Railroad as its car 62. It was one of eleven identical cars in its class built in three separate orders for the P&W, as…
Car 2743 was acquired by the Museum in 1994. It was in regular service in Philadelphia until the fall of the previous year.
When our museum began searching for this type of car they had been long absent from the American streets. A search turned up several cars in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where it is always warm. These cars were built to United States specifications but were assembled in Rio using Brazilian woods. In 1965 our Museum acquired three of these open summer cars in a joint venture with other museums similar to ours.
The J.G. Brill Co., located in southwest Philadelphia, was the world’s largest and most famous trolley car builder. Brill built car #249 in 1904 and exported it to Porto, Portugal for service. It was originally built as an open platform…
The most ambitious restoration project our museum has undertaken to date is York Railways #163. Built in 1924 by the J.G. Brill car Co. in Philadelphia, 163 is a rare curved-side car.