Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum

The Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum is a small museum dedicated to preserving and operating Car number 10 a combination passenger-baggage trolley car made by the Wason Manufacturing Company of Springfield, Massachusetts in 1896. Car number 10 is the last known trolley car from the Shelburne Falls & Colrain Street Railway. In in 1992 Marshall Johnson donated car number 10 (which his father had bought and saved when the Shelburne Falls & Colrain Street Railway shut down) to a small group of people who restored the car back to working order. The Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum is located in the old Buckland Fright yard. The Museum also has a small assortment of equipment that is not related to the Shelburne Falls & Colrain Street Railway like 0-4-0T Baldwin steam locomotive, an ex-CV Caboose, a Central Vermont handcar, and other railroad and trolley equipment. You can find more information about the museum at there web site www.sftm.org

article by: Rowan C. de la Barre