April 2000
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Phil Morse, Executive Director Seashore Trolley Museum, 207-967-2712
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It is going to be an exciting summer at the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport Maine as Car #31, the Museum's flagship car turns 100! Car #31 has recently been designated as a "Save America's Treasures" Project and is the car that began the streetcar preservation movement.
The Museum will open for its 61st season on Saturday May 6, 2000. The Seashore Trolley Museum is the world’s oldest & largest museum of "its type". It is home to the "National Collection of American Streetcars", housing trolleys and streetcars that once plied the streets of America’s greatest cities, plus many more from around the world.
New this year, the Seashore
Trolley Museum will offer guided tours daily in July and August. Tours will lead
guests to the Orientation Room for a brief talk about the development and impact
of the streetcar industry (the importance of the Museum and its mission) and
then out on to the 4-mile ride through the Maine countryside in an authentically
restored antique electric trolley car. The Tour continues into the exhibit barns
displaying "a century of streetcars" (1873 - 1973) and through the
Town House Restoration Shop where trolleys are lovingly and meticulously
restored; "where the magic happens".
Groups and families of all ages delight in this fascinating experience and get to relive how our grandparents traveled before the automobile became king. Visitors have an opportunity, for only $40, to “Be-a-Motorman” and drive one of the 20-ton trolleys.
"Take a Ride into Yesteryear" at the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport Maine. The Fare: only $7 for adults, $5 for seniors, and $4.50 for ages 6 to 16 for unlimited rides and full museum access all day. Children 5 and under are free. For additional information on the Seashore Trolley Museum please call 207-967-2800 or visit them on the World Wide Web at www.trolleymuseum.org
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PS. All travel writers are invited to bring their families for the day and “be a motorman”. Please call for details.
The Seashore Trolley Museum has been operated by the New England Electric Railway Historical Society since 1939 as a 501 (c) 3 non-profit educational institution. For additional information on the Seashore Trolley Museum please call 207-967-2800 or visit them on the World Wide Web at www.trolleymuseum.org Seashore Trolley Museum, 195 Log Cabin Road, Kennebunkport, Maine 04046