| 2002 LCCA Annual Convention - Trolley Museum & Pittsburgh History Center |
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| About the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum |
As buses and automobiles began to replace streetcars more than a half century ago, a small group of people with a dream came together to form an organization dedicated to collecting, preserving, exhibiting and interpreting the historical significance of urban and interurban mass transportation
The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum has evolved over the past 50 years from a handful of volunteers and a few trolleys to over 600 members and currently 45 trolleys preserved a its museum in Washington, Pennsylvania. It is unique in that visitors actually experience the Trolley Era first hand by riding the Museum's beautifully restored streetcars for a scenic three-mile ride into the past.
Click on this link to get more information about the museum and the work they are doing to preserve the history of trolleys and streetcars.
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PENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY MUSEUM
The LCCA arranged to take the conventioneers from the convention hotel in Pittsburgh to the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum located in Washington, Pennsylvania and the History Center in downtown Pittsburgh
There were two separate trips offered and both included a lucheon at the Spaghetti Warehouse. The excursion started with a bus ride from the convention hotel to Washington where the tour members were able to walk through the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum and take a ride on operational trolleys.
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The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum tour guide provides historical information on the 832 New Orleans streetcar prior to giving the tour group a ride |
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LCCA Conventioneers tour the opeating car barn where the restored cars are open for display |
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A view of Trolley 1711 - Pittsburgh - Low floor car built in 1925 and operated until 1953. This car returned to Pittsburgh in 1976 and again in 1987 to operate for special events on the lines of PATransit. |
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This view features two of the restored cars in the car barn. On the left is car 5326 - Philidelphia and on the right is car 14 - Philadelphia Suburban |
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One of the tour groups waits for their ride while the first group disembarkes |
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The tour guide describes the features of one of the operational high-speed trollyes prior to leaving the loading area |
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After being instructed on how to operate a trolley, Past President Al Otten, takes a try |
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Al at the controls of streetcar 832 - New Orleans. This streetcar was used in service between 1923 and 1964 for New Orleans Public Service, its most famous duty being on the "Desire" line. It was featured in a 1947 Life magazine article when Tennessee William's play first oprned on Broadway |
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