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PHOTO OF THE DAY

The Seashore Trolley Museum, Father's Day, June 2009.

Each day in 2023 I will be posting one of my favorite photographs from the past.

[trustevil]

Seashore trolley museum

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Only 4 of these trolleys exist and the Museum is lucky to have such a beautiful and unique piece of history. One worker was putting on the finishing touches of a stunning open-air trolley was Montreal. We started our tour in the restoration barn where several trolleys were being restored. Doug was a walking encyclopedia of trolley history as well as very enthusiastic about the Museum. I was very fortunate to be able to receive a private tour of the Museum by Doug, a long-time member and trustee of the Museum. It is actually one of the largest electric railway museums in the world! Over the past-half century, hundreds of volunteers and several paid employees have restored trolleys for the enjoyment of museum visitors. The Museum was started in 1939 by Ted Santarelli, John Amlan and Gerald Cunningham who rescued car #31 from the Biddeford & Saco Railroad for $150 and moved to its current location. The Trolley Museum is located on a former trolley park called Talbot Park. The trolley ran in and around the city of Boston and was acquired by the Museum in 1954. My second ride of the day was on the Boston Elevated Trolley No. The trolleys were often used to shuttle Yale football fans between the railroad station and the stadium. The trolley was built in 1901 and ran through 1948 when the New Haven streetcar service discontinued. This train operated on the Red Line for one month in 1974.I began my trolley ride through Talbot Park on the Connecticut Company 303, a bright yellow and red open-air trolley. Department of Transportation commissioned new “State of the Art” trains to demonstrate new technologies. Many of the museum’s newer acquisitions bear the scars of deferred maintenance that continue to affect transit systems to this day: Decommissioned MBTA vehicles await restoration at the Seashore Trolley Museum. “A lot of the pieces, back in the day, were painted with lead paint or have asbestos flooring,” says Orlando. While many of the Museum’s vehicles have been impeccably restored, many others are still awaiting restoration. In fact, one of the first things visitors see on arrival is the huge copper-clad headhouse from the former Northampton station on the Orange Line, which was abandoned with the rest of the Washington Street elevated railway in 1987: Remnants of the Northampton elevated Orange Line station on display at the Seashore Trolley Museum. “It’s not a formal arrangement, but when something’s about to be taken offline, because we have so many contacts at the T, we can make arrangements to acquire vehicles and equipment when they’re about to be taken out of service,” says Orlando. In a phone conversation with Streetsblog earlier this week, Katie Orlando, the museum’s executive director, said that the museum has enjoyed “a great partnership over the years” with the T and its employees. The museum’s collection includes transit vehicles from all over the world, but most of its artifacts are from New England – including a lot of donated equipment from the MBTA. Louis in 1897, at the Seashore Trolley Museum. Several large carbarns house dozens of restored streetcars, including this 1897 Boston streetcar, whose roll sign suggests that it once ran on parts of the modern-day Green Line: Car 396 from the Boston Elevated Railway Company, built in St. Note the roll sign on the train above: “Lebanon-Malden,” a route that’s still served to this day by the MBTA’s 106 bus. streetcar: A few streetcars from the Seashore Trolley Museum’s collection, like this 1924 train from the Boston Elevated Railway Co., have been restored to the point where they can take passengers on a short 1.5 mile out-and-back ride into the woods on a restored section of the Atlantic Shore Railway. In the summer of 2020, the author brought TransitMatters Executive Director Jarred Johnson and his then-five year-old daughter for a visit to the Seashore Trolley Museum, where we rode this 1924 Boston Elevated Railway Co.

#Seashore trolley museum free

There, a small army of volunteer transit enthusiasts – including many current and retired employees of the MBTA – spend their free time restoring and repairing the world’s largest museum collection of mass transit vehicles.Īnd when the museum is open to visitors, volunteer conductors offer rides on historic streetcars along the museum’s electrified 1.5-mile demonstration line, a segment of Maine’s defunct Atlantic Shore Line Railway. It’s an unusual final destination for any mass transit line, but for more than 80 years, decommissioned streetcars, buses, and trains from all over the world have retired to the Seashore Trolley Museum on the rural fringes of Kennebunkport, Maine.

[train-of-the-day]

Train of the day is: Siemens/Schlick/Halske "Old lady" of the Budapest Millennium Underground! ( X )

Only one of such cars is still in operation(number 11 above), but only on specific nostalgia events. They received many refurbishments since their first years in operation, and none resemble the originals' looks 100%. After 70 years, they were scrapped, and got replaced by Ganz MillFAV(fun fact:the make doesn't have an official name!) articulated units. A few other units beside number 11 were also saved after the replacement of the cars in various museums: -Number 12, Hannoversches Straßenbahn-Museum -Number 18, Seashore Trolley Museum, Kennebunkport, Maine (donated by Brno Museum of Technology) -Number 1 & 19, Földalatti Vasúti Múzeum (images from the inside)

[yz]

Australian tram at the Seashore Trolley Museum. Kennebunk, Maine. 2014.

Built in 1925. Retired in 1960.

[briansolomonauthor]

Technicolor Trolley

Yesterday we paid a visit to Maine’s Seashore Trolley Museum, where I photographed former Wheeling Traction Company car 639 under wire. Painted in the classic ‘Traction Orange’ this featured an old advertisement for a movie filmed in ‘Technicolor’. A while back, one of my Irish friends asked if I’d gotten used to digital photography, I replied, “I still haven’t gotten used to Color!” These��

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Seashore Trolley Museum in Maine... The largest trolley museum in the world!

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Mysterious White Creature Identified As Young Albino Porcupine. The fluffy critter had baffled staff at Maine’s Seashore Trolley Museum.

FRED HESSLER/SEASHORE TROLLEY MUSEUM VIA AP

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I believe that these are all related to or somehow derived from the Seashore Trolley Museum in Maine.My father rarely missed a yearly visit and these pix were his. Car #434 is from Dallas. The open cars are from Haverhill, Mass. If I understand the terminology one of them is a medium sized 16 bench car while the other is a truly large 24 bencher. That is Plymouth Station but Plymouth where ? Not England & not Vermont. Maybe from the Cape. Was the Mayflower met by a trolley ?

[airmanisr]

Eastern Mass. Street Railway 4387 at Tower C by Jeff Terry Via Flickr: Seashore Trolley Museum, Kennebunkport, Maine

[little-things-make-us-happy]

Fun museum to visit with the dog! #seashoretrolleymuseum #maine #mainetravel #travelwithdogs #dogtravel #petfriendly #petfriendlytravel #dogfriendly #trolley #bus (at Seashore Trolley Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/CO6SqxohsxD/?igshid=kfn118zci5s2

[someenchantedcentury]

The U.S .D.O.T.'s experimental SOAC (State-of-the-Art Car) seen here at the PATCO yard in Lindenwold, New Jersey in August of 1976. The car was tested in revenue service on the rails of six transit agencies around the country between May 1974 and January.1977. The train is now on permanent display at the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine.

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