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Seashore trolley museum
Seashore trolley museum









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.

seashore trolley museum

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. 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. Because dogs are part of the family, we are always dog friendly.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. From the omnibus, to electric streetcars, buses, light rail vehicles, and rapid transit cars, we’ve got them all. It includes examples from the timeline of public transportation. Our vehicle collection represents the evolution of public transportation. All of our visitors experience a powerful connection to the past at Seashore Trolley Museum. Riding on a private railroad, in antique streetcars with uniformed crews is memorable. We also welcome individuals, families, school groups, tourists and historians. Transit enthusiasts and professionals around the world know about the museum.

seashore trolley museum

Our visitors learn about, and gain a new appreciation for, the role public transportation. Our exhibits and guides call attention to the technological, aesthetic, and historically significant characteristics of our collections. Seashore Trolley Museum proudly continues the legacy of its founders by maintaining and sharing our world-class transit collections and knowledge with you. The National Streetcar Museum at Lowell, MA is a satellite of New England Electric Railway Historical Society’s Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine. New England Electric Railway Historical Society was established in 1939 in Kennebunkport, Maine. We preserve knowledge, context, and resources for future generations by collecting, restoring, operating, and exhibiting significant public transit vehicles and artifacts. New England Electric Railway Historical Society shares powerful connections between the past and present. This organization has no active opportunities.įind volunteer opportunities from thousands of organizations that need your help.











Seashore trolley museum