A Full Day of Action at the Seashore Trolley Museum

During our visit to the Seashore Trolley Museum, we were treated to a full day of unexpected non-stop action! After over a year of having limited staff on-site, it was their reorganizing day, and many cars in both the active and static collection were being switched around the site, allowing us to see a great moving display of both fully restored cars, and cars which normally would only be on static display.

[@ericschwartz3559]

2:27, I love those old rusty 1960s red line trains moving at the museum for the first time since being retired from revenue service 25 years ago. I like seeing old nostalgia videos of red line trains back in the early 90’s and seeing the 14s running before they were replaced by the stainless steel 1800’s in the mid 90’s.

[@StSeiyaFan]

I remember riding on those old MBTA Red Line trains when they were in service back in the day, in fact I’ve been to the trolley museum years ago

[@ericschwartz3559]

2:15, Why hello old friend. RTS 8400!!! 😃 I miss seeing them on the real roads going through the crowded, busy and bustling streets with Boston traffic around the greater downtown Boston area. Rest In Heavenly Peace 1985-2009 and 1994-2017.

[@luislaplume8261]

There goes the Orang Line L train that me and my late mother took on a trip to Boston on the weekend back circa 1978. It looked like it was a part of the Chicago L train lines but longer and had outside hung doors not blinker doors. Both were the PCC TYPE L trains.

[@Quacks0]

12:34 "Houston, we have a problem..." :P :D P.S. You're "problem" was that your contact-pole came off the overhead wire --- 600 volts of fireworks-sparks up there! :P

[@ericschwartz3559]

3:26, orange line 1100s. Built in 1957 and retired in 1982.

[@鉄道とおこぷれ大好きチャンネル]

I enjoyed video

[@northpennvalleysteamrailroad]

That’s neat! Where is it located?

[@nathanw7114]

Kennebunkport, Maine.

[@Quacks0]

@@nathanw7114 Yes, on the Log Cabin Road, the entrance of which is off of U.S. 1, at the traffic light at the bottom of a long hill in downtown Kennebunkport, just past the Tradewinds Cafe, and right before Antiques USA. Super-nice place to visit (I've been there so many times --- well over a dozen by now, I reckon --- that I'd totally lost count), and from what I've always seen, they'll generally let you in for free if you just want to look around; all you need a ticket for is the main-line ride --- the station-to-trolley-barns shuttle-car is free, as is being able to stroll the grounds, check out the exhibit-barns, and go look around inside the museum :D

[@NYCS19339]

​@@Quacks0I was there last Sunday. I think you need a ticket to enter the main grounds now, but it includes unlimited trolley rides on the equipment running that day.

[@Quacks0]

@@NYCS19339 I wouldn't know. Again, nobody might ask if you have a ticket if you don't actually try to ride the main-line trolley. A lot of it probably has to do with how many other people are there (i.e., if there are sizeable crowds present, the staffpeople might not even notice "little ol' you" if you just quietly mingle in with everyone else who's wandering about), the weather (i.e., if it's drizzly or foggy --- and so the museum would not likely be attracting all that many visitors, anyway --- they probably won't even enforce ticket-sales if you merely want to stroll around), and so on. Also, if you just saunter unobtrusively in on the road that goes by the outside of the main complex instead of going in through the visitor's center, they might not fuss at you. Plus if you are bringing a friend to show him/her around and point out your favorite spots/exhibits --- especially if this other person is either a small child, elderly, or visibly disabled in some way, like having a cane or thick glasses --- , just pleasantly mention to the ticket-counter attendant that you've been there a number of times before (and as "proof", I simply show them a page from my photo album that has the actual previously-bought tickets displayed there), and that you'd just like to give your friend a guided tour; so far they have always accepted that reason from me, and allowed us both in for free. :D

[@ericschwartz3559]

Hard to think that these cars’ replacements were still in revenue service when this video was shot in 2021. 😮 The hawker siddeley 1200s were built between 1979 and 1981. They are expected to finally retire in early 2023 by the order of 152 new CRRC 1400 series cars from China, being built in Shanghai, Changchun and in the United States in Springfield, Massachusetts.