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Museums: Prototype Electric Operation.

Museums and Tourist Railroads with Electric Rolling Stock. by Larry Ede

Symbols:
M = Museum
D = Display
R = Ride
E = Electric only
O = Electric plus Diesel and/or Steam

1. Old Pueblo Trolley Museum
PO Box 1373
Tucson, Az. 85702
(520) 792-1802
DRE
All trolleys - 1912 Los Angeles, 1935 Belgium,
1951 Toronto PCC, 1953 Kyoto, Japan,
Misc. Work Cars
2. Fort Smith Trolley Museum
2121 Wolfe Lane,
Fort Smith, Ar. 72901
(501) 783-0205
DMRO
Trolleys - 10, 205, 221, 225 Fort Smith right &
Traction, 50 Hot Springs Street Railway, 1545
Kansas City Public Service
3. Travel Town Museum
3900 W. Chevy Chase Dr.,
Los Angeles, Ca. 90039
(213) 662-5874
DMRO
1544, 1902 Steeple Cab, Pacific Electric
4. Orange Empire Railway Museum
PO Box 548,
2201 South A Street,
Perris, Ca. 92572
(909) 943-3020
DMRO
418,  498, 717, 1624, 1925 Pacific Electric-
Shops - 3165 Los Angeles Transit Lines -
665, 1160, 1201, 3100 Los Angeles Railway -
19 Kyoto, Japan Street Railway
5. Poway-Midland Railroad
PO Box 1244,
Poway, Ca. 92074
(619) 486-4063
DMRO
1894 Narrow Gauge Los Angeles "Yellow
Car" Trolley.
6. Western Railway Museum
5848 State Highway 12
Suisun City, Ca. 94585
(707) 374-2978
DMRO
Motor 7 Central Calif Traction Co. -
Freight motor 1001 San Francisco Oakland
Terminal - Freight Motors 652, 654. Interurban
1005, 1020, Birney 62, Sacramento Northern,
Wooden Interurbans from the Peninsular Rly. And
Petaluma & Santa Rosa - "Bay Bridge' articulated
units, 182 and 187 Key System Streetcars 271,
362, 987 - "Crandic" Interurban 111, S.F. Muni
Street cars 178, 1003, 1012, 1153 - Blackpool
"Boat" car 602, Millbrae, W2 tram 648.
7. San Francisco Municipal Rly.
949 Presidio Ave.,
Room 238,
San Francisco, Ca. 94115
R
Historic collection of electric streetcars from San
Francisco and seven foreign counitics. Single truck
"California" configuration 578 built in 1895 - Munui's
first car double truck 1- Muni 130 - Muni PCC
1006, 1040 - St. Louis PCC 1704 - Johnstown, Pa.
351 - Hmnburg, Germany 3557 - Oryol Russia 106
- Milan, Italy Peter Witt 1834 - Blackpool England
boat tram 228 - Hiroshima, Japan Kobe 578 -
Osaka, Japan Hankai 151 - Porto, Portugal 187 -
Melbourne, Australia NZ #496 - Muni line car
0304 and flat car C1 - 14 PCC cars from Philadelphia, Pa - 3 PCC cars frorn San Francisco
(double ended)
8. Kelly Park Trolley
1600 Senter Rd.,
San Jose, Ca. 95112
(408) 287-2290
DRO
Porto, Portugal 154 - Sacramento 35 - horse drawn trolley.
9. Pikes Peak Historical Street Rly.
Foundation, Inc.,
PO Box 544,
Colorado Springs, Colo. 80901
(719) 475-9508
DMRE
9 SE Pennsylvania Transportation Authority PCCs
(Phila) 1947 - Los Angeles Rlys PCC 1943 -
Colorado Springs double truck 1901 Laclede Car
Co. - Ft. Collins Municipal Rly. single, truck 1919
Birney
10. Platte Valley Trolley,
2200 7th St.1
Denver, Colo. 80211-5215
(303) 458-6255
RE
1977, built in 1986 as an authentic reproduction of
open air Brill cars, a built-in diesel electric generator
provides power - Denver and Intermountain
Interurban 25.
11. Ft. Collins Municipal Rly,
PO Box 635,
Ft. Collins, Co. 80522
(970) 224-5372,
RE
21 A 1919 American single Birney safety car.
12. Shore Line Trolley museum
17 River St.,
East Haven, Ct. 06512-2519
(203) 467-6927
MRE
Connecticut Co. open car 1414 - Conn. Co.
suburban 193 - Montreal double truck 2001. -
Johnstown lightweights 356 and 357 - Brooklyn,
N.Y. convertible 4573 -Third Ave. Rly. 629
13. Connecticut Trolley Museum
PO Box 360,
East Windsor, CL 06088-0360
(860) 627-6540
MRE
60 pieces of rolling stock - Connecticut Co. 65, 355,
840, 1326, - Montreal Tramways 4, 2056, 2600,
Rio De Janeiro 1850 - Chicago Transit Authority
4284, 4436 - Illinois Terminal 451.
14. Fox River Trolley Museum
PO Box 315,
South Elgin IL. 60177-0315
(847) 697-4676
DRE
20 Chicago, Aurora & E40n 1902 Interurbans -
4451 Chicago Transit Authority - 5001 Chicago
Rapid Transit - 715 Chicago, North Shore &
Milwaukee - 6101. 6012 St. Louis Rapid Transit
cars.
15. Illinois Rly. Museum,
PO Box 427,
Union, IL 60180
(815) 923-4391
DMRO
300 pieces of rail equipment - Midwestern
interurbans and street cars - Chicago Elevated cars -
North Shore, South Shore, Chicago, Aurora &
Elgin and Illinois Terminal Interurbans.
16. National New York Central Railroad
Museum
PO Box 1043,
Elkhart, Indiana, 46515,
(219) 294-3001
DMO
NYCentral L3a 3001 - Penna. RR. GGI 4882.
17. French Lick, West Baden & Southern
Railway,
PO Box 150,
French Lick, In. 47432
MRO
313 Porto, Portugal Trolley
18. Indiana Transportation Museum
PO Box 83,
Noblesville, Indiana 46061-0083
(317) 773-6000
DRO
Electric trolleys & locomotives
19. Iowa RR Historical Society
11th & Division Sts.
PO Box 603,
Boone, la. 50036
(515) 432-4249
1 (800) 626-0319
MDRO
Charles City & Western 50 - Chicago,
South Shore and South Bend 106.
20. Mason City & Clear Lake Electric
Rly. Historical Society
PO Box 956,
Mason City, Ia. 50401-0956
MDRE
Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee interurban
727 - 1948 PCC - Wooden trolley car - electric
sweeper - 5 steeple cabs.
21. Mdwest Electric Rly., Old Threshers
Reunion,
Mt Pleasant Ia 52641
(315)385-8937
MRE
3093, 3226, Boston Meta PCCs - 4476 Toronto
PCC - 1718, 1779 Narragansett open cars from
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
22. Seashore Trolley Museum
PO Box "A",
Kennebunkport Me. 04046-1690
(207) 967-2712
MDRO
200 pieces of rolling stock - horse cars, city cars,
Interurbans, rapid transit cars, work equipment
23. The B&O Railroad Museum,
901 West Pratt St
Baltimore, Md. 21223-2699
(410) 752-24090 .
MDRO
3 electric locomotives - 2 electric mu cars.
24. Baltimore Streetcar Museum
PO Box 4881,
Baltimore, Md. 21211
(410) 547-0264
MRE
554, 1896 single truck summer car - 1050, 1895
single truck closed car - 264, 1900 convertible cars -
1164, 1902 double truck summer car - 2328 double truck closed car - 6119, 1930 Peter Witt car 7407, 1944 Pullman Standard PCC cars.
25. National Capital Trolley Museum
PO Box 4007,
Silver Springs, MD 20914
(801) 384-6088
MRE
678 New York City - 352 Johnstown - 120 Graf,
Austria - 955 Dusseldorf, Germany - 5954 Berlin Germany - 6062 with trailer 7802 Vienna, Austria -
766, 1053, 1101, 1540 Washington D.C. Sweepers 07, 51 and work cars 0509, 0522, Washington, D.C.
26. Lowell National Historic Park
67 Kirk St, Two circa
Lowell MA 01852
(508) 970-5000
DRO
1901 open air trolleys - one circa
1919 closed trolley.
27. Michigan Transit Museum
PO Box 12,
Mt. Clemens, MI 48046
(810) 463-1863
DMO
1929 Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee
Interurban - Detroit Street Rly. PCC 268 -
Chicago 'Transit Authority elevated cars 4442,4450.
28. Lake Superior Museum of
Transportation
506 W. Michigan St
Duluth Mn. 55902
(218) 733-7590
DMO
Milwaukee Road boxcab - 2 Portugal trolleys.
29. Minnesota Transportation Museum
PO Box 17240, Nokomis Station
Minneapolis, Mn. 55417-0240
(612) 228-0269
1-800 711-2591
MRE
10 Mesabi Rly Co. - 78 DSR - 265 Duluth
Street Rly. - 322 TCRT PCC - 416 TCRT - 1300
Twin City Rapid Transit
30. Museum of Transportation
3015 Barrett Station Rd.,
St Louis, Mo. 63122
(314) 965-7998
DMO
9 electric locomotives including General Electric's
#1 - Now York Central 113 - P
Railroad 4700 - thirty interurbams.
31. New York Transit Museum
130 Livingston St, 9th Floor,
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11201
ME
Eighteen completely restored subway and elevated
cars dating from 1903
32. Martisco Station Museum,
PO Box 229,
Marcellus, N.Y. 13108
(315) 488-8208
MRO
One Pennsylvania GGI
33. Trolley Museum of New York,
PO Box 2241,
89 East Strand,
Kingston, N.Y. 12402,
(914) 331-3399
MRE
Seven Rapid Transit Cars - eleven trolleys - one
interurban
34. Carillon Historic Park
2001 S. Patterson Blvd.,
Dayton, Oh. 45409-2023
(937) 293-2841
DO
Kuhlmann Co. interurban - Brill summer trolleys
35. Trolleyville, USA,
7100 Columbia Rd.,
Olmsted Township, Oh. 44138
(216) 235-4725
MRE
Two Brill Veracruz open summer trolleys -'I'hree
wooden and five steel heavyweight Interurbans -
two lightweight Interurbans - double ended PCC -
three boxmotors.
36. Oregon Electric Rly Museum,
PO Box 308
Lake Oswego, Ore. 97034
(503) 222-2226
MRE
503, 506 Porland - 1607 Portland Rly Light &
Power - 1118, 1159 St. Louis - 1187 Now South
Wales - 1304 British Columbia Rly - 1318 L.A.
Rlys - 1445 East Side Rlys.
37. Altoona Railroaders Memorial Museum
1300 Ninth Ave
Altoona Pa. 16602
(814) 946-0834
MO
Pennsylvania GG1 4913
38. Rock Hill Trolley Museum,
460 Paul Ave.,
Chambersburg, Pa. 17201
(717) 263-3943
MRE
162 York Rip. - 172 Porto, Portugal - 249 Brill -
311 Johnstown - 315 Chicago, Aurora & Elgin -
1875 Rio Do Janeiro - 205 Philadelphia - 402
Philadelphia & Western - others.
39. Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
Box 15,
Strasburg, Pa. 17579
(717) 687-8628
DMO
B1 switcher - GG1 4935 and 4800 - E44 electric - others
40. Pennsylvania Trolley Museum
1 Museum Road,
Washington, Pa. 15301
(412) 228-9256 .
DMRE
Pittsburgh 3756 - Philadelphia Rapid Transit 5326 -
Now Orleans 832 -'Philadelphia Suburban Transit
66 and 73 - Pittsburgh Rlys 1711.
41. Age of Steam Railroad Museum
PO Box 153259
Dallas, Tx. 75315-3259
(214) 428-0101
DMO
Pennsylvania GG1
42.. McKinney Ave. Transit Authority
3153 Oak Grove Ave.,
Dallas, Tx. 75204
(214) 855-0006
DRE
122 Oporto, Portugal - 186, 636 Dallas - 369
Australia - 332 North Texas Traction - 4613, 4614
Toronto - in storage 754,183, 189 and 323.
43. Virginia Museum of Transportation,
303 Norfolk Ave.,
Roanoke, Va. 24016,
(703) 342-5670
DMO
Electric locomotives and trolleys including a PCC
from Washington, a City of Roanoke trolley and a
D.C. Transit trolley.
44. Metro Transit
Seattle, Wa.
(206) 684-2046
DRE
6 street cars - 5 class W2 trains
45. Yakima Electric Railway Museum
PO Box 649,
Yakima Wa. 98907-0649
(509) 575-1700
RE
Line car "A" - freight motor 298 - Trolleys
21. 22 - Oporto, Portugal Brill cars 1776, 1976.
46.East Troy Electric Railroad,
PO Box 556,
Waukesha, Wi. 53187
(414) 548-3837
MRE
Chicago, South Shore & South Bend 9, 11, 30 -
Beverly Shores 24 - Ravenswood 25 - open car
21 - Chicago Transit Authority 4420 - Duluth/
Superior 253 - Philadelphia PCC 2185 -Toronto
PCC 4617 - Freight locomotive L8 and L9.
47. Heritage Park Historic Village,
1900 Heritage Drive SW,
Calgary Alta. T2V 2X3, Canada
(403) 259-1900
DRO
14 & 15 Calgary Municipal Rly.
48. Halton County Radial Railway,
RR2,
Rockwood, Ont. NOB 2KO, Canada
(519) 856-9802
DRE
327 four wheel open car - 55 single truck
closed car - 2890 Ottawa - 2424 Witt 4000 PCC,
Toronto Transportation Commission - 107 Montreal
and Southern Counties Interurban - 1326 Toronto
Railway Company - 8 heavy Interurbans, London &
Port Stanley.
49. Canadian Railway Museum
120 St. Pierre St.,
Saint-Constant Quebec, J5A 2G9, Canada
(514) 632-2410
MRO
1959 Montreal streetcar - 3 Montreal Tramways
open observation trolleys - and others.
50. Western Development Museum
PO Box 185,
50 Diefenbaker Dr.
Moose Jaw, Sk. S6H 4N8, Canada
(306) 691-0511
RDMO
1929 Streetcar double truck, built by Ottawa
Preston.
51.Feather River Rail Society,
PO Box 60,
Portola, Ca. 96122
DMO
Kennecott Copper Mines center cab switcher.
A. Deer Lodge, Montana Milwaukee Road "Little Joe"
B. Harlowton, Montana Milwaukee Road single "Pelican" as switcher

 


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