Pennsylvania Trolley Museum - Part 2

[G3750]

More photos from our little excursion.

This needs just a little TLC. The flatcar on which it sits is also very old.

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From the ridiculous (above) to the sublime - a private car. The docent was kind enough to let us go inside this private parlor car (meant to be towed). It has been fabulously restored.

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This trolley hauled freight.

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This is a track sweeper! Anyone know what the bristles are made of? Part 3 will show a fully restored sweeper car.

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George

[Rufus T. Firefly]

This is a track sweeper! Anyone know what the bristles are made of?

Cane.

[rogruth]

George,
I probably should know but can't recall, where is this museum?
(Bad sentence.)

[rogruth]

George,
No need for an answer. Read out of order.

[G3750]

This is a track sweeper! Anyone know what the bristles are made of?

Cane.

Bamboo. Put in water and bent around a shaft and fastened in place. Pretty ingenious.

George

[G3750]

George,
I probably should know but can't recall, where is this museum?
(Bad sentence.)

Washington, PA.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

This is a track sweeper! Anyone know what the bristles are made of?

Cane.

Bamboo. Put in water and bent around a shaft and fastened in place. Pretty ingenious.

I was told cane, but they may be using both names to describe the same thing

[webenda]

This is a track sweeper! Anyone know what the bristles are made of?

Cane.

Bamboo. Put in water and bent around a shaft and fastened in place. Pretty ingenious.

George

Cane (grass), a term for grasses with woody stalks like bamboo.
Cane (vine), the part of a grapevine in commercial viticulture that supports the new growth of shoots, leaves and grape clusters.
Rattan (palm), a term for roughly 600 species of old world climbing palms.

In 1913 the Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company devised a machine for making snow sweeper brushes out of Rattan.
Should I post the article under Subway, Elevated, Trolley & Traction Lines?

[robert.]

Scranton Pa also has a trolley museum. It is open year round. Oct 29 was the last trolley ride for the year. Electric city museum.

[Wolf]

The Electric City trolley museum may have shut down the trolley rides
a bit early this year..visited on September 21 for a ride (after managing
to go through Scranton on non-running days for several years ).
They informed me that they could not offer rides because a storm
sometime before had blown trees down on the ROW and the wires
were down "in places". They could not give me a date on when
they expected to be up and running again.

It is a nice ride through the tunnel and along the creek. My wife and
I saw deer alongside the trolleycar on one of our trips.

[chuck]

Nice pictures. Why would a trolley have dishes?

[rogruth]

Chuck,
I think the dishes are in a private car.

[chuck]

Wow, a private trolley. That's what I want for Christmas!