Another fan trip with no information. Looks like a Baltimore car to me.
(Photo credit: TMNY Collection, catalog #6666)
scanned photos and postcards only
The Trolley Museum besides the historic trolley cars also has a collection of photographs, postcards, books and other artifacts. The highlights of these collections are often featured exhibits in our Visitors Center.
The volunteers are still in the process of cataloging the museum's collection of photographs and other artifacts. However, what has been cataloged so far is summarized here:
scanned photos and postcards only
There are a number of photographs in the museum collection which are unlabeled. This web page is a way for all you rail and traction experts out there to help identify them!
If you know anything about these pictures or their location, please let me know so I can update the museum records. Thanks!
Another fan trip with no information. Looks like a Baltimore car to me.
(Photo credit: TMNY Collection, catalog #6666)
A spectacular wreck with no information whatsoever.
(Photo credit: TMNY Collection, catalog #6641)
This would seem to be a fan charter, but the photo is unlabeled.
Possibly Philadelphia?
(Photo credit: TMNY Collection, catalog #4560)
Note the nicely bricked street and the palm trees.
I can discern no markings on the trolley.
One person has suggested Tampa.
Do you agree?
2/23/03 Earl W. Clark Jr. suggests the car is in St. Petersburg FL.
(Photo credit: TMNY Collection, catalog #5055)
This might be a former Philadelphia Suburban horsecar now in Grand Rapids Mich.
Can anyone confirm this?
(Photo credit: TMNY Collection, catalog #2124)
If you click on this you'll see the full picture, but here I've zoomed in on a curious automobile. The picture is dated 1934. What is this car? Duesenberg? Rolls? Auburn?
These were mysteries, but thanks to our diligent readers, they have been identified:
Xian Clere identified this as Northern Ohio Traction & Light No. 1500 shortly after arrival at the Connecticut Trolley Museum.
(Photo credit: TMNY Collection, catalog #6632)
A Montreal Transportation Commission car derailed at the tunnel entrance
(Photo credit: TMNY Collection, catalog #2195)
This is the "Chicago Fire" set in Freedomland USA (a short-lived amusement park in the Bronx, NY)
(Photo credit: TMNY Collection, catalog #486)
From John Swindler:
A nice aerial view of Harrisburg PA,
the trolley intersection is at Market and North 2nd Streets.
(Photo credit: TMNY Collection, catalog #269)
Here are five of Evan's favorite photos in the TMNY collection. Evan has been heading the archives at TMNY for over fifteen years and has personally cataloged thousands of items. His favorate photos are usually ones that show the trolley as part of the everyday life of those who depended on it for daily transportation or otherwise capture a special moment.
(Photo credit: TMNY Collection, catalog #5384)
(Photo credit: TMNY Collection, catalog #4849)
(Photo credit: TMNY Collection, catalog #305)
(Photo credit: TMNY Collection, catalog #6547)