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The Electric City Trolley Museum is a transport museum located in downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania, next to the Steamtown National Historic Site. [1] The museum displays and operates restored trolleys and interurbans on former lines of the Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad, which are now owned by the government of Lackawanna County [2] and operated by the Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad.
The new tracks and trolley barn are part of a $2 million project financed by capital funds from the county and the state. The barn has space for up to nine trolleys, allowing the county museum to spend more time working to bring defunct cars back to running order. It has a gallery where visitors can observe the process.
A new 2,000-foot extension connects the county's trolley line, the Electric City Trolley Museum, from the Steamtown National Historic Site, Scranton, to a new station and trolley restoration facility, immediately adjacent to the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders stadium, PNC Field, off Montage Mountain Road in Moosic.
Its last trolley car ran in 1954, its lines replaced by buses. [7] Scranton Transit ceased all bus operations on Nov. 15, 1971. [11] It was succeeded in 1972 by the County of Lackawanna Transit System.
The D-L also runs Lackawanna County's tourist trolleys from the Electric City Trolley Museum, under overhead electrified wiring installed on original sections of the Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad that was also purchased by Lackawanna County. It also runs trains on a remnant of the DL&W Diamond branch in Scranton.
The museum will celebrate the 100th birthday of the construction of York trolley 163 at a special ceremony at 10 a.m. Aug. 3. Rockhill Trolley Museum plans birthday party for old York County ...
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In the early 1900s, it stored trolleys that transported Johnson County’s first residents to Kansas City. After cars put the line out of commission, the building became an auto repair shop, a ...