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 straight from mines to the company’s electric power plant. Others were used to remove ash from the power plant, and some to haul odd freight–including fish!–between the port and the markets. The sides of the four-wheeled car fold down, allowing easy access to the load.
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