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3 unusual facts about Seashore Trolley Museum


Seashore Trolley Museum

In the 1950s, a diesel-powered electric generator was used to allow the cars to move under their own power.

While most are from New England and other areas of the United States, trolleys from Canada, Australia, Japan, Germany, Hungary, England, Scotland, Italy, and several other countries are also in the collection.

Todd Glickman

Since 1988, he has been an officer and docent at the Seashore Trolley Museum of Kennebunkport, ME, most recently serving as an Instructor for the Museum's operating fleet of streetcars, rapid transit vehicles, and historic buses.


Cincinnati Car Company

Cincinnati Car Company ceased operations in 1938, but several of its original streetcars are preserved, for instance at the Saskatchewan Railway Museum, Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal and the Seashore Trolley Museum.

Jewett Car Company

Brooklyn Rapid Transit streetcar 4547, built in 1906, sees regular operation at the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine.


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