Rockhill Trolley Museum

The Rockhill Trolley Museum is located at 430 Meadow Street, Rockhill Furnace, Pennsylvania, 19 miles (31 km) north of the Pennsylvania Turnpike and 11 miles (18 km) south of US 22, the William Penn Highway.

Founded in 1960, the museum collects and restores traction equipment (trolley, interurban and transit cars). The museum operates what has been historically referred to as the Shade Gap Electric Railway to demonstrate the operable pieces in its collection. "Shade Gap" refers to the name of a branch of the East Broad Top Railroad, from whom the museum leases it property.

The first car acquired by the museum in 1960 is Johnstown Traction #311. Recent acquisitions include Public Service Coordinated Transport (later New Jersey Transit), Newark, NJ Presidents' Conference Committee (PCC) Car #6 and Iowa Terminal Railroad Snow Sweeper #3.

Johnstown Traction 311, the Rockhill Trolley Museum's first acquisition in its collection.

"Railways to Yesterday Inc." is the corporate name of the organization, and for some years the museum operated under the name directly, until a desire to acknowledge and enhance its relationship with its hometown and help provide mutual promotional support resulted in its new operating name.

The museum season runs from Memorial Day weekend through October and is open additionally for special events during the holiday season, such as Polar Bear Express and Santa's Trolley.

The East Broad Top Railroad is across the street from the museum. The two organizations are not formally affiliated, and tickets are not cross-honored. However, both organizations share volunteers and labor expertise between them. The railroad has not operated public excursions since December 2011 and has operated no excursions since October 2013.

Roster

Number	Type	Heritage	Builder	Date	Condition	Notes
3	Snow sweeper	Emery, Iowa	McGuire-Cummings Manufacturing Company	1911	Operating	Acquired in a trade wherein the National Capital Trolley Museum received Snow Sweeper #09 from the museum
6	PCC streetcar	Public Service Coordinated Transport, later New Jersey Transit	St. Louis Car Company	1949	Operating	Originally Twin City Rapid Transit car #325
10	Snowplow	Philadelphia and Western Railroad	Wason Manufacturing Company	1915	Operating	Retired 1988, last operating trolley snowplow in the United States outside of a museum.
12	Tram	Valley Railways, west of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania	Jackson and Sharp Company	1895	Inoperable
61	Tram	Philadelphia Suburban	Brill	1925	Inoperable	Center door
107	Snow sweeper	Scranton Transit	Chicago and Joliet Electric Railway	1910	Operating	Steeple-cab
162	Tram	Philadelphia and Western	Brill	1927	Inoperable	High-speed interurban car
163	Tram	York Railways	Brill	1924	Operating	Rare curved-sides car
172	Tram	CCFP/STCP (Porto, Portugal)	CCFP	1929	Operating	Semi-convertible (open/closed) car.
205	Tram	Philadelphia and Western	Brill	1931	Operating	Only operating Brill bullet, originally 3rd rail powered
249	Tram	CCFP/STCP	Brill	1904	Operating	Semi-convertible.
311	streetcar	Johnstown Traction Company	Wason	1922	Operating	First car of the museum.
315	Tram	Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad	G. C. Kuhlman Car Company	1909	Operating	Wooden interurban car
355	Tram	Johnstown Traction Company	St. Louis Car Company	1926	Operating
402	Box motor	Philadelphia and Western	Detroit United Railway	1920	Operating	Double-ended
710	Tram	Harrisburg Railways	Brill	1913	Inoperable	Semi-convertible.
1009	Rapid transit car	Delaware River Port Authority Bridge-line car	Brill	1936	Inoperable	Sold to Philadelphia Broad Street Subway for $10,000 following the formation of the PATCO Speedline in 1968.
1875	Tram	Rio de Janeiro Tramways	Brill	1912	Operating	Only operating open car in Pennsylvania.
2743	PCC streetcar	Philadelphia Transportation Company, later SEPTA	St. Louis Car Company	1947	Operating	Originally broad gauge.
19137	Caboose	Pennsylvania Railroad		1900s	Not used	N-5 steel
C-64	Freight flat	CCFP/STCP	CCFP	1933	Operating	Now used as a track maintenance car.
D-39	Tower car	SEPTA	Philadelphia Rapid Transit	1908	not Operating	Overhead wire maintenance car.
M-25	GE 25-ton switcher	Adtranz	General Electric Transportation Systems	1942	Operating	Originally owned by United States Navy
M-100	Speeder	United States Navy	Kalamazoo Manufacturing	1945	Operating	Petrol engine
X-4	Cherry picker car		Rockhill Trolley Museum	1998	Operating
X-39	Caboose	Central of Georgia Railway			Not used	Wooden
BT-1	Boom truck	Curry Supply Company	GMC	1981	Operating
Liberty Liner Independence Hall	Electroliner	Philadelphia Suburban	St. Louis Car Company	1941	Operating	Originally Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad No. 803-804
	Ballast car		Rockhill Trolley Museum	1999	In use
	Railroad tie nipper		Rockhill Trolley Museum	2000	In use

External links

• Rockhill Trolley Museum website