April 2000
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Contact: Phil Morse, Executive Director, Seashore Trolley Museum, (207) 967-2712, Public 967-2800
Press Contact: Greg Burke of IMS-21, (207) 985-1766, greg@ims21.net
The Seashore Trolley Museum will open for its 61st season this Saturday May 6, 2000. 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.
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".
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.
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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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 at www.trolleymuseum.org Seashore Trolley Museum, 195 Log Cabin Road, Kennebunkport, Maine 04046