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Pennsylvania Trolley Museum - Part 2
Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2017 4:12 pm
by G3750
More photos from our little excursion.
This needs just a little TLC.
The flatcar on which it sits is also very old.
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From the ridiculous (above) to the sublime - a private car. The docent was kind enough to let us go inside this private parlor car (meant to be towed). It has been fabulously restored.
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This trolley hauled freight.
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This is a track sweeper! Anyone know what the bristles are made of? Part 3 will show a fully restored sweeper car.
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George
Re: Pennsylvania Trolley Museum - Part 2
Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2017 7:37 pm
by Rufus T. Firefly
G3750 wrote: This is a track sweeper! Anyone know what the bristles are made of?
Cane.
Re: Pennsylvania Trolley Museum - Part 2
Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2017 9:53 pm
by rogruth
George,
I probably should know but can't recall, where is this museum?
(Bad sentence.)
Re: Pennsylvania Trolley Museum - Part 2
Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2017 9:55 pm
by rogruth
George,
No need for an answer. Read out of order.
Re: Pennsylvania Trolley Museum - Part 2
Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2017 10:53 pm
by G3750
Rufus T. Firefly wrote:G3750 wrote: This is a track sweeper! Anyone know what the bristles are made of?
Cane.
Bamboo. Put in water and bent around a shaft and fastened in place. Pretty ingenious.
George
Re: Pennsylvania Trolley Museum - Part 2
Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2017 10:53 pm
by G3750
rogruth wrote:George,
I probably should know but can't recall, where is this museum?
(Bad sentence.)
Washington, PA.
Re: Pennsylvania Trolley Museum - Part 2
Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2017 8:15 am
by Rufus T. Firefly
G3750 wrote:Rufus T. Firefly wrote:G3750 wrote: This is a track sweeper! Anyone know what the bristles are made of?
Cane.
Bamboo. Put in water and bent around a shaft and fastened in place. Pretty ingenious.
I was told cane, but they may be using both names to describe the same thing
Re: Pennsylvania Trolley Museum - Part 2
Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2017 7:53 pm
by webenda
G3750 wrote:Rufus T. Firefly wrote:G3750 wrote: This is a track sweeper! Anyone know what the bristles are made of?
Cane.
Bamboo. Put in water and bent around a shaft and fastened in place. Pretty ingenious.
George
Cane (grass), a term for grasses with woody stalks like bamboo.
Cane (vine), the part of a grapevine in commercial viticulture that supports the new growth of shoots, leaves and grape clusters.
Rattan (palm), a term for roughly 600 species of old world climbing palms.
In 1913 the Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company devised a machine for making snow sweeper brushes out of Rattan.
Should I post the article under
Subway, Elevated, Trolley & Traction Lines?
Re: Pennsylvania Trolley Museum - Part 2
Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2017 8:31 pm
by robert.
Scranton Pa also has a trolley museum. It is open year round. Oct 29 was the last trolley ride for the year. Electric city museum.
Re: Pennsylvania Trolley Museum - Part 2
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 12:40 pm
by Wolf
The Electric City trolley museum may have shut down the trolley rides
a bit early this year..visited on September 21 for a ride (after managing
to go through Scranton on non-running days for several years
).
They informed me that they could not offer rides because a storm
sometime before had blown trees down on the ROW and the wires
were down "in places". They could not give me a date on when
they expected to be up and running again.
It is a nice ride through the tunnel and along the creek. My wife and
I saw deer alongside the trolleycar on one of our trips.
Re: Pennsylvania Trolley Museum - Part 2
Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 10:18 am
by chuck
Nice pictures. Why would a trolley have dishes?
Re: Pennsylvania Trolley Museum - Part 2
Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 10:50 am
by rogruth
Chuck,
I think the dishes are in a private car.
Re: Pennsylvania Trolley Museum - Part 2
Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 12:29 pm
by chuck
Wow, a private trolley. That's what I want for Christmas!