Seashore Trolley Museum's 75th anniversary

[rcdrye]

This is a repost from my post on Train's "Steam and Preservation" forum, since the folks here also appreciate stuff like this...

For the 75th Anniversary of the July 5, 1939 founding of the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport Maine, the Museum ran an expanded version of the annual trolley parade.  All of the cars operated with their own motors. Here's the lineup:

• Biddeford and Saco (Maine) 31, 11 bench open JG Brill 1900
• Atlantic Shore Line 100 freight locomotive, Laconia 1906
• Portsmouth Dover and York 108 RPO/Baggage  Laconia 1896
• Boston Elevated 5821 Type 5 JG Brill 1924
• Connecticut 1160 Closed "bowling alley" Stephenson 1906
• DC Transit 1304 prewar PCC St. Louis Car 1941
• CNS&M 755 Silverliner coach Standard Steel 1930
• Twin Cities 1267 city car TCRT Snelling Shops 1907
• New South Wales Govt Rys (Sydney) 1700  Meadowlark Mfg 1926
• Wheeling 639 curved-side lightweight Cincinnati Car 1924
• Dallas 434 Stone & Webster city car American Car Co. 1914
• Connecticut 303  15 Bench open JG Brill 1901
• Connecticut 838 15 Bench Open J M Jones 1905
• Boston Elevated 396 open-platform "box" Wason 1896
• Cleveland 1227 Center Entrance Kuhlman 1914
• Chicago 225 Old Pullman  Pullman 1907
• Baltimore 144 Peter Witt Brill 1930
• MBTA 0621/0622 Blue Line Rapid Transit Hawker-Siddeley 1978
• Manchester Street Ry "City of Manchester" director's car Griggs Carriage 1898
• MBTA 3283 Line Car Henry E Dow Body Co. 1947
• MBTA 5106 Snowplow (from type 2) Everett Shops (St. Louis 1908)
• Oshawa Ry 300 Baldwin-Westinghouse 50 ton steeple cab
• Eastern Massachusetts 4387 Semi-convertible Laconia 1918
• Brooklyn 4547 convertible Jewett 1906
• Montreal 2 sightseeing car  Montreal St. Ry 1906
• Lehigh Valley Transit 1030 ex Indiana RR 55 "High-Speed" American Car 1931

In the middle somewhere was the Pettibone Swing Loader from the MBTA.

 

[KCSfan]

What an impressive lineup! At 75 years of age I expect this is one of, or possibly the oldest operating railroad museums in the US.

Mark