Electric City Trolley Station and Museum

This week, our Off Campus Art News blogger, writes about her recent trip to the “Electric City Trolley Station and Museum”. She shares photos and different things that she did at the museum. This is also Ellies farewell post. Thank you, Ellie! #Marywood

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Edwin stopped in front of the desk and folded his hands, waiting for acknowledgement. It was time, the wait was over. Edwin has dealt with these damn exhibits for far longer than he wanted to and finally his escape was within sight.

It was a rare visit for Nicky, his procrastinated return after a prolonged and self-induced isolation. The museum has always been a second home to him, a family in its own right that had welcomed him in from the very beginning, but it’s been hard to even grasp the idea of returning lately.

Nicky wanted to blame his schedule— Between an abundance of school assignments and extracurriculars, he’s hardly had enough time to breathe, let alone the energy to stay up with the exhibits all night.

But the truth was that Nicky couldn’t face the museum.

He’s spent weeks mulling over everything he was told, and he tried— he really did— to forget what Edwin had said. The voice lingered in the back of his mind every time he spoke to an exhibit until each interaction was stained by a now constant dulling roar of hateful words: *They don’t like you, they can’t stand spending time with you. You’re bothering them.*

Nicky might have avoided the museum forever too if Larry hadn’t started getting concerned.

The subtle strains of music whispered from his headphones. Nicky tapped along to the beat on the board game box balanced precariously on his knees.

Unaware of Edwin’s presence, Nicky thumbed through an instruction manual, and he didn’t notice Edwin until he looked up to change the song playing. He halted the swivel chair’s spins, putting a foot on the ground.

For several long beats, Nicky stared dumbly at Edwin, blinking owlishly. He waited for him to speak, to say anything, and when he didn’t, Nicky pulled his headphones off. “Hey, Edwin! Can I- Can I help you with something?”

You like trains, I like trains, I wanna share with you a train that connects us more than one would think!

This little adorable 2' Českomoravská Kolben-Daněk locomotive, built in 1940!

One of the final locomotives built by CKD before it became BMM during the occupation.

And somehow, it made its way from Europe, to California, then over to Indiana. And when it arrived at the Hesston Steam Museum in Indiana in the 80s or 90s, they checked it over and found chalk marks on the inside of the boiler from when it was built.

It had never been steamed before!

Anyway hehe wanted to share an adorable little loco Ive seen and ridden behind

RIDDEN BEHIND?? I'M INCREDIBLY JEALOUS!! AND SUCH PRETTY LIVERY....

And it was THAT fresh? Sounds like a successful attempt at saving it from use/dismantling by the nazis, though I see that the story behind it is a complete mystery with only speculations around...still, very interesting!! :3c

Trolley stop

*Edwin followed the map Nicky had given him all the way to the Ancient Egypt display which is where he found the tomb. This was where Ahkmenrah supposedly was. He looked inside but saw no one else and walked past the jackals, walking to the tablet hanging in the wall.*

Ahk suddenly appears behind the stranger in his tomb. “Hello, may I help you?” Ahk quietly greeted the new person.

@ptrolley this is just a silly little drawing I made (time-lapse under cut)

Fox River Trolley Museum, Rolling Stock

Pennsylvania Trolley Museum

The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum, located in Washington, Pennsylvania, is a renowned railway museum dedicated to the preservation and operation of streetcars and trolleys. Stepping into this museum is like taking a ride into the past, where visitors can not only admire the exhibits but also touch and even ride in them. With its vast collection of historic trolleys…

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PHOTO OF THE DAY

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

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Streetcar at Night on ET160 Comparative Scans

Streetcar at Night on ET160 Comparative Scans

Last night I made two scans of an ET 160 (Tungsten balance) Ektachrome slide. This film was designed for use with incandescent lighting. I exposed this slide as part of sequnece of night images at the Connecticut Trolley Museum in East Windsor, CT in December 1993. The first scan was using an Epson V600 flatbed scanner powered with Epson Scan 2 software. The second was using a Nikon LS5000…

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*Losing things was a running theme for Edwin and he had spent the better half an hour trying to track down either the Guardian or his son. Unfortunately for Nickolas, Edwin found him first. He entered quietly, not saying anything as he crept further into the room and leaned over the couch much like he had a week or so ago. He peeked past Nicky’s shoulder to see what he was working on.*

Unlike the past few days, Nicky had ditched the museum entry room in favour of avoiding excessive foot traffic and shielding prying questions in order to give his full attention to an ongoing project. He was alone, sitting in blissful white noise of fervent pencil scribbled across paper and the occasional hum that escaped past his lips, leg bouncing with excited energy and jostling the old notebook in his lap.

Nearly done.

He straightened up, little pops crawling up his spine after being hunched over his work for so long, and Nicky peered at the page. Then, as a final thought, he signed his name at the bottom.

It was only when he turned to grab the card that Nicky finally noticed he had an audience. He jumped, pencil flying out of his hand. “Holy— Edwin!”

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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.

Yellow car

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Joe Oliver.

We met at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis today.

He told me some of his story.

He’s 84 years old.

He’s the Vice President of the Memphis Railroad and Trolley Museum.

He’s a great storyteller.

”When I was growing up, I was fascinated by trains, we were sharecroppers and a train would always come through,” said Joe in an interview with Kym Clark on Action News 5 in Memphis. (https://www.actionnews5.com/2021/04/20/star-stories-history-behind-memphis-railroad-trolley-museum/?outputType=amp)

“And one thing I would always notice about my dad when the train would blow its whistle, he would always look at his watch. Because the train was always on time.

And I would see that train go by and of course, there I’d say, ‘I wonder where that train go.’

So, now since I had this opportunity I can show young people where trains go and what they do.

And it creates such a fantasy for the kids.

They just, they enjoy it over and over and over again they never get enough of it.

And old guys, like myself, we enjoy it.”

He was born in 1938.

There I was, wandering through the museum, looking and listening for a deeper understanding of the Civil Rights Movement, and the Civil Rights Movement found me.

And told me a story.

Think about it.

Joe Oliver LIVED through the Civil Rights Movement.

He was a LIVING story of the Civil Rights Moving.

He enjoys trains.

He teaches folks about trains.

One of the great songs from the Civil Rights Movement is about trains.

So people get ready there's a TRAIN a comin'

You don't need no baggage, you just get on board

All you need is faith, to hear the diesels hummin'

Don't need no ticket, you just thank the Lord.

I’m on board the train.

I hear the diesels humming.

Because of you.

And all the courageous, committed, creative, caring people like you.

When you told me your story, I could hear Fannie Lou Hamer singing.

When you shook my hand, I could feel the long sun up to sun down days of your sharecropping days.

When you looked into my watery blue eyes, I could see Ella Baker teaching.

As I walked away from you, I could hear the train whistle blowing.

I looked into my own heart, listened to it, and knew you’d come by me right on time.

I just thank the Lord.

And you.

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