Trolley Museum
Sunday, May 18th, 2008
WASHINGTON, PA – Today was a quick trip down to the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum. “Trolley’s aren’t strange!” you may say, and I guess you would be right, but I’ve got a strange obsession for public transportation. Busses, trains, trolleys, I love them all. I get really excited when I have the opportunity to take public transit to wherever I’m going. I feel grown up and important. I think it may have something to do with being a kid and my gram taking me to the city on a bus. It was always a big deal.
The Pennsylvania Trolley museum is on the small side, and the basic tour earns you a ride on the trolley and a tour of a couple of the restored trolleys. For an extra fee, however, you can get the once daily tour of the car barn which has a big ol’ bunch of trolley’s in differing states of disrepair. I kinda like the 50’s style trolleys (surprise, surprise) more than the earlier ones. And we only got to board 2 trolleys other than the one that meanders about the grounds. I would have like the opportunity to wander on my own, but since this is pretty much a volunteer only establishment there are no docents to yell at you for climbing on an antique in the process of being restored.
