Pennsylvania Trolley Museum, Railway museum in Chartiers Township, US.
The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum is a railway museum housing roughly 50 historic streetcars and electric railway vehicles from the 20th century. The vehicles are arranged on a network of tracks where visitors can both tour the collection and take rides through the countryside.
The museum was founded in 1953 and has been collecting streetcars from different eras and cities ever since. What began with just a handful of vehicles on a former railway line grew over the decades into the collection that exists today.
The museum displays streetcars from various American cities, showing how people once traveled by public transportation in their daily lives. Visitors can still ride in these vehicles today and experience the way passengers once moved through cities.
Visitors can take guided tours of the maintenance buildings and ride trolleys on multi-mile routes that travel through the surrounding landscape. Wearing comfortable shoes and allowing plenty of time is helpful if you want to experience both the indoor tours and the trolley rides.
In 1984, television personality Fred Rogers visited the museum and rode a historic Philadelphia trolley, with the experience later featured in his show. This appearance introduced the collection to a nationwide television audience.
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