Rockhill Trolley Museum
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The Rockhill Trolley Museum is located at 430 Meadow Street, Rockhill Furnace, Pennsylvania
, 19 miles (30.6 km) north of the Pennsylvania Turnpike
and 11 miles (17.7 km) south of US 22, the William Penn Highway
.
The museum collects and restores traction equipment (trolley, interurban and transit cars) and operates the Shade Gap Electric Railway to demonstrate the operable pieces of its collection.
The museum is owned and operated by the group "Railways to Yesterday".
The East Broad Top Railroad
is next to the museum.
Rockhill Furnace, Pennsylvania
Rockhill is a borough in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 414 at the 2000 census. It is the site of the East Broad Top Railroad....
, 19 miles (30.6 km) north of the Pennsylvania Turnpike
Pennsylvania Turnpike
The Pennsylvania Turnpike is a toll highway system operated by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States. The three sections of the turnpike system total . The main section extends from Ohio to New Jersey and is long...
and 11 miles (17.7 km) south of US 22, the William Penn Highway
William Penn Highway
The William Penn Highway was an auto trail in the United States, generally running from Pittsburgh east to New York City. It served as the eastern end of the Pikes Peak Ocean-to-Ocean Highway. The William Penn Highway Association of Pennsylvania was organized March 27, 1916 to promote a road...
.
The museum collects and restores traction equipment (trolley, interurban and transit cars) and operates the Shade Gap Electric Railway to demonstrate the operable pieces of its collection.
The museum is owned and operated by the group "Railways to Yesterday".
The East Broad Top Railroad
East Broad Top Railroad
The East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company is a for-profit heritage railroad headquartered in Rockhill Furnace, Pennsylvania, north of Interstate 76 and south of U.S. Route 22, the William Penn Highway. The railroad operates excursion trains on a seasonal schedule.-History:The East Broad Top...
is next to the museum.
Roster
Number | Type | Heritage | Builder | Date | Condition | Notes |
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9 | Snow sweeper | Washington, D.C. | McGuire-Cummings Manufacturing Company McGuire-Cummings Manufacturing Company McGuire-Cummings Manufacturing Company was a streetcar builder based in Paris, Illinois. The company was one of a few suppliers for the Toronto Civic Railways.-Products:* DE DT M - later TTC Class I cars* DE ST snow sweepers... |
1899 | Operating | Originally ran on third-rail power |
10 | Snowplow Snowplow A snowplow is a device intended for mounting on a vehicle, used for removing snow and ice from outdoor surfaces, typically those serving transportation purposes... |
Philadelphia and Western Railroad Philadelphia and Western Railroad The Philadelphia and Western Railroad was a high-speed, third rail-operated, commuter-hauling interurban electric railroad operating in the western suburbs of the U.S. city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. One of its lines is now SEPTA's R100 Norristown High Speed Line; the other has been abandoned... |
Wason Manufacturing Company Wason Manufacturing Company The Wason Manufacturing Company was a maker of railway passenger coaches and streetcars during the 19th and early 20th century. The company was founded in 1845 in Springfield, Massachusetts by Charles Wason and Thomas Wason .... |
1915 | Operating | Retired 1988, last operating trolley snowplow in the United States outside of a museum. |
12 | Tram | Harrisburg Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Harrisburg is the capital of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 49,528, making it the ninth largest city in Pennsylvania... Railways |
Jackson and Sharp Company Jackson and Sharp Company Jackson and Sharp Company was an American railroad car manufacturer and shipbuilder in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The company was founded in 1863 by Job H. Jackson , a tinsmith and retail merchant, and Jacob F. Sharp Jackson and Sharp Company was an American railroad car manufacturer... |
1895 | Inoperable | |
61 | Tram | Philadelphia Suburban | Brill | 1925 | Inoperable | Center door |
107 | Snow sweeper | Scranton Scranton, Pennsylvania Scranton is a city in the northeastern part of Pennsylvania, United States. It is the county seat of Lackawanna County and the largest principal city in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area. Scranton had a population of 76,089 in 2010, according to the U.S... Transit |
Chicago and Joliet Electric Railway Chicago and Joliet Electric Railway The Chicago and Joliet Electric Railway, or C&JE, was an electric interurban railway linking the cities of Chicago and Joliet, Illinois. It was the only interurban between those cities and provided a link between the streetcar network of Chicago and the cities along the Illinois River Valley in... |
1910 | Operating | Steeple-cab |
162 | Tram | Philadelphia and Western | Brill | 1927 | Inoperable | High-speed interurban Interurban An interurban, also called a radial railway in parts of Canada, is a type of electric passenger railroad; in short a hybrid between tram and train. Interurbans enjoyed widespread popularity in the first three decades of the twentieth century in North America. Until the early 1920s, most roads were... car |
163 | Tram | York York, Pennsylvania York, known as the White Rose City , is a city located in York County, Pennsylvania, United States which is in the South Central region of the state. The population within the city limits was 43,718 at the 2010 census, which was a 7.0% increase from the 2000 count of 40,862... Railways |
Brill | 1924 | Operating | Rare curved-sides car |
172 | Tram | CCFP/STCP (Porto, Portugal) | CCFP | 1929 | Operating | Semi-convertible (open/closed) car. |
205 | Tram | Philadelphia and Western | Brill | 1931 | Operating | Only operating Brill bullet |
249 | Tram | CCFP/STCP | Brill | 1904 | Operating | Semi-convertible. |
311 | streetcar | Johnstown Traction Company Johnstown Traction Company Johnstown Traction Company was a public transit system in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States. For most of its existence it was primarily a street-railway system, but in later years also operated rubber-tired vehicles. JTC operated trolley service in Johnstown from February 23, 1910 to June... |
Wason | 1922 | Operating | First car of the museum. |
315 | Tram | Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad The Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad , known colloquially as the "Roarin' Elgin" or the "Great Third Rail", was an interurban railroad that operated passenger and freight service on its line between Chicago, Illinois and Aurora, Batavia, Geneva, St. Charles, and Elgin. The railroad also operated... |
G. C. Kuhlman Car Company G. C. Kuhlman Car Company The G. C. Kuhlman Car Company was a leading American manufacturer of streetcars and interurbans in the early 20th century. The company was based in Cleveland, Ohio.... |
1909 | Operating | Wooden interurban car |
355 | Tram | Johnstown Traction | St. Louis Car Company St. Louis Car Company The St. Louis Car Company was a major United States manufacturer of railroad passenger cars, streetcars, trolleybuses and locomotives that existed from 1887–1973, based in St. Louis, Missouri.-History:... |
Under restoration | 1926 | |
402 | Box motor Box motor A box motor, in railroad terminology, is a self-propelled boxcar, normally powered by electricity and running on an interurban railway or a streetcar line. Many box motors were converted from passenger cars on the systems that ran them, with the seats and most of the windows removed and large... |
Philadelphia and Western | Detroit United Railway Detroit United Railway The Detroit United Railway was a transport company which operated numerous streetcar and interurban lines in southeast Michigan. Although many of the lines were originally built by different companies, they were consolidated under the control of the Everett-Moore syndicate, a Cleveland-based group... |
Operating | 1920 | Double-ended |
710 | Tram | Harrisburg Railways | Brill | 1913 | Inoperable | Semi-convertible. |
1009 | Rapid transit Rapid transit A rapid transit, underground, subway, elevated railway, metro or metropolitan railway system is an electric passenger railway in an urban area with a high capacity and frequency, and grade separation from other traffic. Rapid transit systems are typically located either in underground tunnels or on... car |
Delaware River Port Authority Bridge-line car | Brill | 1936 | Inoperable | Sold to Philadelphia Broad Street Subway for $10,000 following the formation of the PATCO Speedline in 1968. |
1875 | Tram | Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th... Tramways |
Brill | 1912 | Operating | Only operating open car in Pennsylvania Pennsylvania The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to... . |
2743 | PCC streetcar PCC streetcar The PCC streetcar design was first built in the United States in the 1930s. The design proved successful in its native country, and after World War II was licensed for use elsewhere in the world... |
Philadelphia Transportation Company | St. Louis Car Company | 1947 | Operating | Originally broad gauge Rail gauge Track gauge or rail gauge is the distance between the inner sides of the heads of the two load bearing rails that make up a single railway line. Sixty percent of the world's railways use a standard gauge of . Wider gauges are called broad gauge; smaller gauges, narrow gauge. Break-of-gauge refers... . |
19137 | Caboose Caboose A caboose is a manned North American rail transport vehicle coupled at the end of a freight train. Although cabooses were once used on nearly every freight train, their use has declined and they are seldom seen on trains, except on locals and smaller railroads.-Function:The caboose provided the... |
Pennsylvania Railroad Pennsylvania Railroad The Pennsylvania Railroad was an American Class I railroad, founded in 1846. Commonly referred to as the "Pennsy", the PRR was headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.... |
1900s | Not used | N-5 steel | |
C-64 | Freight flat | CCFP/STCP | CCFP | 1933 | Operating | Now used as a track maintenance car. |
D-39 | Tower car | SEPTA | Philadelphia Rapid Transit | 1908 | Operating | Overhead wire maintenance car. |
M-25 | GE 25-ton switcher | Adtranz Adtranz ABB Daimler-Benz Transportation , commonly known under its brand Adtranz, was a multi-national rail transport equipment manufacturer with facilities concentrated in Europe and the USA.... |
General Electric Transportation Systems | 1942 | Operating | Originally owned by United States Navy United States Navy The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S... |
M-100 | Speeder Speeder A speeder is a maintenance of way motorized vehicle formerly used on railroads around the world by track inspectors and work crews to move quickly to and... |
United States Navy United States Navy The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S... |
Kalamazoo Manufacturing | 1945 | Operating | Petrol engine Petrol engine A petrol engine is an internal combustion engine with spark-ignition, designed to run on petrol and similar volatile fuels.... |
X-4 | Cherry picker Cherry picker A cherry picker , is a type of aerial work platform that consists of a platform or bucket at the end of a hydraulic lifting system.- Design :... car |
Rockhill Trolley Museum | 1998 | Operating | ||
X-39 | Caboose | Central of Georgia Railway | Not used | Wooden | ||
BT-1 | Boom truck | Curry Supply Company | GMC | 1981 | Operating | |
Independence Hall | Electroliner Electroliner The Electroliners were a pair of electric passenger train sets operated by the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad, which ran between Chicago, Illinois, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. These streamlined electric multiple unit interurban trains were built by St. Louis Car Company in 1941. Each... |
Philadelphia Suburban | St. Louis Car Company | 1941 | Stored inoperable | Originally Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad The Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad, often called the North Shore Line, was an interurban railroad line that operated between Chicago, Illinois, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, until its abandonment in 1963.- Early history :... No. 803-804 |
Ballast car | Rockhill Trolley Museum | 1999 | In use | |||
Railroad tie Railroad tie A railroad tie/railway tie , or railway sleeper is a rectangular item used to support the rails in railroad tracks... nipper |
Rockhill Trolley Museum | 2000 | In use |