Pennsylvania Trolley Museum
Pennsylvania Trolley Museum
For old and young, we're tons of fun!
The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum began in 1954 with three trolleys and a dream. Today, that dream is a reality. We now display a collection of more than 50 cars with over a dozen in operating order, have over 150 regular volunteers, and receive over 30,000+ visitors each year. With your support, we can continue to fulfill our mission to keep the Trolley Era alive for generations to come.
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So cool. And showing how streetcars, and rail in general, is effective and efficient and fun.
I lived on the street behind the brentwood loop. W. Bellecrest Avenue. Now it's a bus turnaround with a financial business.
Old routes before and after
Thanks Phil for your transportation knowledge!! Wow - that Bellevue House!
Beautiful looking intro! It would be good to promote that PCC trolley's were not slow. Some section of the track should allow them to go full out zippy! The Washington DC's, Georgetown Glen Echo trolley route 20, a PCC streetcar on its on right-of-way, would hit about 60 mph.
I love it! It was fascinating watching this video from a poles-eye view. Seeing the view of the wire and the pole as it goes through the various parts of it while moving from side to side during turns and especially as it goes through all of the frogs without missing a beat, was really special. That could never be duplicated with pantographs, it is only a unique part of trolley car lore. I also liked how we could see the coming tracks and know that there will be frogs that the pole will pass through. However, we didn't get to see the actual car that the pole was on, but it looked like the pole had the springs which remain horizontal when the pole is raised. Maybe next time, you can place the camera in front of the pole looking up so that we see the trolley wheel or shoe actually in contact with the wire as it goes along and passing through the frogs, etc. Thanks for a great video.
Tom, excellent presentation I am very intetested in interurban power generation My great grand father was a stationary engimeer, and worked at the power house in medway Ohio. I am interested in your substation pictures. I know the substation in arcanum, Ohio.
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It's Smithfield Street, not Avenue. I visited Pittsburgh many times, for two weeks at a time, filming the street car lines on color movie film. I recorded many sad last rides as well as the lines in general. I started filming in the 1960s. I'm 79 years old now. And sadly a home-bound,.quite ill invalid now. By the way, the PCC cars are now running on Rt. 15 Girard Avenue in Philadelphia. Trolleys are now running again to the rebuilt Westmoreland Loop on Richmond Street after 13 years !!
This is so fantastic! I wish you would do several open lectures on this here in Cincinnati. Too much to take in all in one sitting.
Me gustaría saber si puede existir alguna información sobre el constructor de coches del 1er tranvía español puesto en servicio entre Carcagente a Gandía en 1864, muy cerca de mí
John Engleman actually was a motorman for the Philadelphia streetcar system.
My God, these were private companies. Yes if they needed equipment they would rent it out . The whole idea was to make money.
Is there any information or pictures available with the Erie railroad in Dunmore?
Fabulous video thank you 😊
I taking Ride at steamtown
Very good Video and I like it
One in Johnstown Pennsylvania
To answer what I think the man was being asked. Between Philadelphia & Columbia PA it was the Philadelphia & Columbia RR that met the Eastern Division for the PA Canal System on up to where Appalachian Trail crosses NS tracks for Canal to run north to the Poconos, as a Aqueduct was built to cross the Susquehanna River to at Clark's Ferry onto the Juniata Division of PA Canal to reach Duncannon PA to meet Plane 10 of Allegheny Portage RR that Planes 10 to 6 went up along Old U.S. 22 to Plane 6 that took canals down to Plane 1 at Bethlehem Steel in Johnstown as Waterstreet is Canal out to where Little Conemaugh River met Stoney Creek to have the Western Division of Canal service serviced the Bolivar out through Blairsville going through Conemaugh Dam serving Saltsburg to Schenley PA in Armstong County crossing a burst aqueduct over the Allegheny between PA 128 to Butler Junction going under the Lineville and PA 356 leading down through Natrona that was known as East Tarentum through Brackenridge down along Old PA 28 pulling right along the Highland Park Bridge going under 15th Street and Park to cross Main & Canal where Church is today for PRT's past PAT routes 1 & 91 going through the warehouse exiting onto Canal Street where Cemetary was fund near Super K as Canal serviced Allegheny City terminus at where PNC Park is today. Canal also crossed Aqueduct where the Pittsburgh Fort Wayne & Chicago RR is at dried up canal at AMTRAK/Greyhound Pittsburgh. The between information was PA Canal and was filled in by Western Pennsylvania RR west of Johnstown PA and became PRR's first mainline before the cut at Derry PA Yard which is New Derry is Derry PA Westmoreland County to service Latrobe, Greensburg onto PAT now PRT's 2nd current mainline onto State 1 & 2 of East Bus Way that is to be pushed into Pitcairn Yard.
Federal and State Senators need to be pushed to suspend services between Thorndale and Melvern Yard to have AMTRAK & SEPTA allow tracks between Thorndale Station or both Thorndale Station to Paoli to be suspended to allow investigation for these bodies to be removed. During the find of the first 7 bodies of which some were sent back to Ireland many more are suspected to be under existing tracks between Melvern through the Duffy's cut at Sugartown Curve at Sugartown & King at the site where the first 7 bodies were found. The remaining are suspected to be under the active tracks as again 57 Irish workers were at that site including a woman. Some of the men tried to escape and were hunted down between the work shanny west to Downingtown Station. Again this is a ongoing murder site and AMTRAK and SEPTA won't suspend services as Kraft's contracts out to SEPTA to do route between Coatsville as SEPTA has bus services between SEPTA's Victory 69th Street Terminal with other connection to Center City.
Adding at PRR's & Pennsylvanian and Keystone Trains along U.S. 30 Lancaster Pike we are going over murdered men from Irland as when the Philadelphia & Columbia RR was being built Mr. Duffy hired 57 Irish men as their was also a woman from Irland of which only 7 bodies were recovered from the Melvern Yard, Frazer to Downingtown Station. Currently there's a ongoing murder investigation going on at Duffy's Cut from area of Melvern Yard west to the Downingtown Station. Currently Mr. Watson and his Brother with the help of IEBU local and Michelada University with others are working to get approval of SEPTA and AMTRAK to do removal to remove the rest of the bodies that were murdered during a Cholera outbreak. Many of the bodies are under the active SEPTA and AMTRAK tracks between Melvern Yard out to the Downingtown Station, not shore about the Thorndale Station as it is also in Downingtown. Duffyscutproject.com
Correction to Levittown/Tullytown as its PRR's 7 Trenton Local.
Regarding the location in Beaver at 16:10. The stone faced building in the center with the peaked facade still exists, albeit without the facade, as do the buildings on either side. It is 570 Third St. The furniture store and the building to the left were replaced. The photographer is standing on the SE corner of Third St and College Ave, looking NE.
If I end up back in the 'Burgh, I'm gonna darken your doorway. Would love to volunteer. You have a great organization and I love to see the streetcars I remember from my childhood.
Looking forward to coming down tomorrow for the volunteer meet&greet.
Excellent program!
These things were way ahead of their time. Beats the hell out of the automobile as an effective mode of transportation.
90lb rail is not a problem if maintained.
This was a great presentation! I've had many questions about these railways for years and you answered most of them. It was very thorough and enjoyable. Thank you for putting this together and for all the comments as well.
I worked in those subway surface car tunnels back in the 1990’s and out of all of the underground tunnels in the city those tunnels are the worst maintained with broad street tunnels being a close second.
Excellent talk with superb images showing transit in their urban environments. Only visited Toronto twice (1973 and 2012) so saw the last of the PCC's and nearly the last of the CLRV's. Now you have light rail in the regions so, if I ever manage to return, there will be lots more for me to see.
A presentation that is better than excellent by a better than excellent presenter and a better than excellent host.
Excellent presentation!
The presenter could not be understood for much of this video. His coughing into the microphone didn't add much to his presentation.
Sadly I missed the PCC era in Pittsburgh, but I am loving the slide show, and how colorful all of the PGH Trolleys were, I honestly thing the only thing that has really come close is the Pride Light Rail car, to what they were doing back then. I did see a tone of Green cars on the Boston T. Jersey didnt have anything when I was growing up
All I can say is WOW!
As always, an excellent talk with some superb colour photos. Thank you.
I'''m glad my friend Jon McGrew called my attention to this fascinating video. The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum is to be congratulated for what they have preserved and display about this old and significant era of domestic transportation!
Philadelphia's funeral car was the Hillside, not Hillsdale. In the chat at the end of the program, I later saw where George Gula mentioned that fact. The Atlantic City and Shore Railroad Company had a funeral car called the Absequam, built by the John Stephenson Works in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1906. The car had a compartment for the casket and the upper windows were stained glass. It was numbered 120 and unlike the other cars which were originally painted Tuscan Red and later orange and cream, it was painted green and cream. In 1924, when funeral car service ended on the "Shore Fast Line", the car was rebuilt as a parlor car. During WWII, it was converted to a straight coach. The car was burned and scrapped in 1948 when buses replaced trolleys on the Atlantic City - Ocean City trolley line. I have photos of the car, promotional leaflets and newspaper ads advertising funeral car and later parlor car service. By the way, doesn't Boston's Mattapan - Ashmont trolley line go through a cemetery? Also, was Allison Meier expecting a blizzard? What was with those ear muffs?
It's one thing to clarify points of information or add other useful information to a presentation. It's a completely different matter to mock the presenter and her choice of headset.
About 29:45 : The PE PCCs were not stored until after the subway closed in mid-1955. I am interested in how the Shaker Heights PCCs performed, because the PE ones rode badly on open track. Some say it's because the couplers on both ends made them unbalanced. Others says it was because PCCs were designed for smooth rigid track.
Are there any maps available for Washington trolley lines circa 1950?
The South Shore is adding additional track between Michigan City and Gary. So it will be faster to get to Chi by train. I haven't ever been on a train as a passenger. I am going to try it the next time I want to make a trip to the Dunes park or maybe Chi. I remember my grandparents talking about the interurban here in Indpls. and I see the old track on US40 pop the asphalt up when it freezes some years. Now they bus company is trying to put a dedicated lane where the Interurban rode. they should put a train in instead. Buses are too big. There is an elevated train at the hospital complex downtownn and I was hoping they would expand it. I do prefer to drve but not always.
Thank you for producing the video. Did the Hecla store become a Red and White Store?
The Harmony Line ran in a northeasterly direction through what is now the Fox Run neighborhood of Cranberry Township. The right of way can be seen heading northeasterly from the intersection of Rowan Road and Old Farm Road. The right of way is also visible from the east side of old Route 19 a few yards past the Burger King. I 79 interrupts the right of way but it is visible from the east side of I 79 to Fox Run.
Great presentation!
Saw one of the green cars on Woodland Ave a few weeks ago and it really threw me off before remembering the maintenance facility. Thought I had somehow ended up at an old house off of Girard! Looking forward to accessible trolleys that aren't older than me. The history is fascinating as I rely mostly on the trolleys to get around.
Well done, PTM! What an excellent venue.
Enjoyed the video, thanks! I was watching specifically to see the Bradford Woods Station (Bradford?) but I didn't see it. The video goes from talking about the Wexford Station and then to jumps to Warrendale.... but no Bradford Woods?
I remember as a Boy Scout camping in a "park" in Bradford Woods that was supposedly on the Trolley Line. It had a pond/lake, pavillion if I believe.
North on rt8 allison park just before mccully rd there a yellow building supposedly built around a harmony line car