September 2000
NEWS
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Contact: Peter Folger, President & Curator, Seashore Trolley Museum, Business (207) 967-2712,
Res.: 207-283-8902, Cell: 207-450-4766, Public 967-2800, folger@gwi.net
Press Contact: Greg Burke of IMS-21, (207) 985-1766, greg@ims21.net
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the Seashore Trolley Museum
September 30 & October 1:
The Seashore Trolley Museum is proud to announce the second annual Pumpkin Patch
Trolley. The weekend of September 30th & October 1st, the Museum
will provide trips in antique electric streetcars to Meserve's Crossing on the
old Atlantic Shore Line Railway Route. Once there, museum patrons may pick their
own pumpkins. One pumpkin will be available free for each paid admission.
Electric streetcar rides to the "pumpkin patch" will run on the hour
from 11:00am until 2:00pm. In keeping with tradition, museum visitors will be
given a "baggage claim check" to transport their pumpkin back to the
station.
Visitors then continue their ride through the Maine
woods to Talbott Park, the end of the line. During the Talbott Park trolley
ride, the Museum's former Portsmouth, Dover & York Mail and Express car #108
will deliver the pumpkins back to the Visitor's Center and upon presentation of
the "baggage claim check" to an attendant the visitor and pumpkin are
reunited.
The car used in transporting the pumpkins is an
electric railway United States Mail car built in 1904. It was used to carry the
Mail in York County, Maine until 1912 and it is one of the Museum's ten Maine
Trolley Cars on the National Historic Register.
Visitors to the Seashore Trolley Museum during this
special Pumpkin Patch Weekend will enjoy the everyday low admission price of
just $7.00* for all day rides for adults, $5.00* for seniors and $4.50* for
children 6-16, under 6 are free. Access to Exhibition Barns, an Orientation
Room, Restoration Shop, Museum Store and Snack Bar are all included with
admission. For an additional fee of $40.00 one can even learn to "Be A
Motorman" and operate an antique electric streetcar. “Experience History
In Motion" at The Seashore Trolley Museum. *Sorry, special family passes
and other passes are not valid for this event.
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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