National Capital Trolley Museum

National Capital Trolley Museum PCC 1101 in June, 2000. Photo by Herman Silbiger.

Founded in 1961, the origin of the National Capital Trolley Museum was conjoined with that of the Baltimore Streetcar Museum, but in 1966 the organizations went their separate ways and the NCTM was located at its present site, in Colesville, Maryland. Road construction required its relocation, and in the winter of 2008-2009 the museum moved its collection (and track) to three new buildings. The collection focuses on Washington, D.C., and has the largest collection of D.C. streetcars of any trolley museum. Several cars were lost in a carbarn fire in 2003.

Highlights of the collection:

• Cars 0522 and 0509, 19th Century wooden cars

• Car 1053, pre-PCC streamlined car

• Cars 1101, 1430, and 1470, PCC cars from Capital Transit

• Car 678, New York Third Avenue Railways car from 1939, that served time in Vienna, Austria after WWII

• Car 85, Philadelphia and West Chester suburban streamline car from 1932

• "Foreign" cars from Toronto, Blackpool, Brussels, Berlin, and the Hague

Photo Gallery

Five Random Images
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Links

National Capital Trolley Museum. The web site of the National Capital Trolley Museum, with pictures of its collection and more.

Wikipedia