I was on vacation all last week and capped off my trip with a visit to the National Capital Trolley Museum in Wheaton, MD. Many thanks to Eric Madison and Alex Dvoynoy for showing me around the museum! NCTM will soon be moving to a new location perhaps a quarter mile from its current site for a unique reason: its current home is being obliterated by a planned expressway! The lemonade being made out of this lemon is that grants have been obtained to construct a beautiful all-new steel-and-masonry carbarn (already done), visitors center (construction begun) and car repair shop (to be built). The current visitors center (see below right for a photo of one of the displays, in this case a controller that visitors can operate) and carbarn will disappear and all displays and rolling stock will go to the new facilities.
The highlight of my trip was a chance to operate a 1971 PCC car from the Netherlands, shown below left with one of Washington's unusual dispatcher's towers. It was only slightly different than operating the 309!
News and views of progress at the Illinois Railway Museum
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Museum visit: National Capital Trolley Museum
Posted by Frank Hicks at 11:38 PM
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