I visited there in the 80's. After hours, I was given the special treat of driving Phila. & West Chester (Red Arrow) #62 and North Shore Line # 420. The last car shown is a "Differential Dump" car.
I've been to this awesome museum so many times that I've totally lost count --- probably well over a dozen! :D 1:40 Morrison Hill Station is the only known surviving waiting-station from the old Portland-Lewiston Interurban line. 2:38 Track-laying machinery for bending rails and tamping tie-ballast. 5:30 Back in the late '80's when I first visited this museum, they didn't have this track-loop at Talbott Park which allowed for simply turning around and heading back the way they'd come, and so they had to just stop at the end of the track that had been usably built so far, flip the seat-backs so that the seats now faced the opposite direction, and then drive the trolley back using the controls at the opposite end of the car. Most of the trolleys in the museum's collection have identical front ends and reversible seats like this; one of the few that do not is the "Golden Chariot", seen at 14:35, and which has controls only at the front end. So before the loop-track was added at the far end of the line, this car had to actually be driven backwards to return to the museum headquarters, with the passengers all riding backwards (because the seat-backs were rigidly attached and therefore not able to be flipped around to make the seats face in the opposite direction), and the power-pole extending out over the seats instead of out over the back. This last feature was uniquely pleasurable in that you could easily hear the pole "singing along" (i.e., making a musical-buzz humming sound from the electrical sparks) on the overhead wire just a few yards above your head, and the metallic electric-guitar-like "twang" of the wire as the pole passed underneath each of the supports that held up the wire, momentarily releasing its upward pressure on the taut wire and then catching it again. :D 10:33 "Meserve's Crossing" was named after the farming-family that would always be let off there when returning home at the end of the day. :D 15:55 The first trolley car that was museum-preserved in the **entire world** --- this is the 'original" or "kernel" car that the entire "surrounding" museum was "built around". A number of young men who had loved to ride this trolley to and from Old Orchard Beach had heard that it was going to be scrapped, and so they pooled their money and bought the car for $150.00. That was back in 1939, and look how truly gigantic the museum and its collection have grown in the past 85 years! :D
Very enjoyable Harrison! And a bit different too! I got a kick out of the air whistle that trolley you rode had, a nice surprise! Thanks for posting this one!
Really nice...I first rode an open car like the one you were on,and it may have been the same one,back in 1964 at the museum.Have not been there in about five years and hope to go visit soon.
GREAT VIDEO. Enjoyed the ride.
I visited there in the 80's.
After hours, I was given the special treat of driving Phila. & West Chester (Red Arrow) #62 and North Shore Line # 420.
The last car shown is a "Differential Dump" car.
I've been to this awesome museum so many times that I've totally lost count --- probably well over a dozen! :D
1:40 Morrison Hill Station is the only known surviving waiting-station from the old Portland-Lewiston Interurban line.
2:38 Track-laying machinery for bending rails and tamping tie-ballast.
5:30 Back in the late '80's when I first visited this museum, they didn't have this track-loop at Talbott Park which allowed for simply turning around and heading back the way they'd come, and so they had to just stop at the end of the track that had been usably built so far, flip the seat-backs so that the seats now faced the opposite direction, and then drive the trolley back using the controls at the opposite end of the car. Most of the trolleys in the museum's collection have identical front ends and reversible seats like this; one of the few that do not is the "Golden Chariot", seen at 14:35, and which has controls only at the front end. So before the loop-track was added at the far end of the line, this car had to actually be driven backwards to return to the museum headquarters, with the passengers all riding backwards (because the seat-backs were rigidly attached and therefore not able to be flipped around to make the seats face in the opposite direction), and the power-pole extending out over the seats instead of out over the back. This last feature was uniquely pleasurable in that you could easily hear the pole "singing along" (i.e., making a musical-buzz humming sound from the electrical sparks) on the overhead wire just a few yards above your head, and the metallic electric-guitar-like "twang" of the wire as the pole passed underneath each of the supports that held up the wire, momentarily releasing its upward pressure on the taut wire and then catching it again. :D
10:33 "Meserve's Crossing" was named after the farming-family that would always be let off there when returning home at the end of the day. :D
15:55 The first trolley car that was museum-preserved in the **entire world** --- this is the 'original" or "kernel" car that the entire "surrounding" museum was "built around". A number of young men who had loved to ride this trolley to and from Old Orchard Beach had heard that it was going to be scrapped, and so they pooled their money and bought the car for $150.00. That was back in 1939, and look how truly gigantic the museum and its collection have grown in the past 85 years! :D
There was a PCC L car from Boston built in 1957 that ran on the Orange Line.
Very cool ride along video from the museum. We enjoyed watching and have a great upcoming weekend.
Very enjoyable Harrison! And a bit different too!
I got a kick out of the air whistle that trolley you rode had, a nice surprise!
Thanks for posting this one!
Awesome 😎
Really nice...I first rode an open car like the one you were on,and it may have been the same one,back in 1964 at the museum.Have not been there in about five years and hope to go visit soon.
I was there 2 weeks ago and it is a piece of history , definitely a great museam
#4 is at the Connecticut electric railway in wherehouse point Ct. and is still in operation last I knew..
I've been going there since i was 7, i'm 60 now eeeeeek lol i know the place very well
I rode on a Montreal tour car at the museum at Windsor Locks, CT about 30 years ago so maybe it's the same car or there is one more out there.
I think it may still be there! There are 2 restored I believe.
@@NorthCountryTrains I remember a guy at Windsor Locks saying that 4 were built.
When's the m427 video of that day coming?
Not for a while
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