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Pennsylvania's First Operating Trolley Museum
Pennsylvania's First Operating Trolley Museum
For all you snow lovers, Rockhill Trolley Museum received measurable snow! That brought some museum volunteers to campus for one big reason: The chance to run Scranton Snow Sweeper #107 and its brushes for their intended use! Credit to Shannon…
Car #3 is typical of the type of cars used by systems in colder climatesfrom coast to coast to clear snow from tracks located in paved streets. Known as “snow sweepers”, these cars carried large spinning brooms that literally swept…
The Rockhill Trolley Museum (www.rockhilltrolley.org), is happy to announce its participation in an inter-museum exchange of historic vehicles and components between the Branford Electric Railway Association (www.bera.org), the National Capital Trolley Museum (www.dctrolley.org), and the Rockhill Trolley Museum, three of the East Coast’s well-known operating electric railway museums.
The exact origins of very unique Philadelphia and Western Freight Motor #402 remain somewhat unclear. It can be reasonably assumed that the car was constructed around 1920 in the Highland Park shops of the Detroit United Railway and numbered 2010.…
The Rockhill Trolley Museum collection includes two snowsweepers, both of which are quite rare. Snowsweeper #107 is from Scranton, PA, and is a single-truck, four-wheeled car with rotating brooms at both ends. It is a “steeple cab” design with operator…