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Pennsylvania's First Operating Trolley Museum
Pennsylvania's First Operating Trolley Museum
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…
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.