Seashore Trolley Museum 75th Birthday

[rcdrye]

Seashore was the first transit museum - as distinct from railroad museum - of any kind.  Biddeford and Saco 31 arrived on the site of the current entrance around July 5, 1939.

[daveklepper]

Is not Seashore the original railway preservation musuem other than possibly the B&O in Baltimore?

[rcdrye]

While it isn't steam, it's definitely preservation...

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.