Old-timey transit on display at Trolley Museum’s annual Anything on Wheels! event
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Sarah Wells, dressed as Rosie the Riveter, steers the snow sweep trolley during the parade Saturday afternoon. Parades showcasing work cars took place throughout the weekend as part of the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum’s Anything on Wheels event.
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This 1957 wooden boat was on display during the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum’s Anything on Wheels event Saturday and Sunday, where the water vehicle counted because, “it’s on wheels,” laughed CEO and executive director Scott Becker.
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“They said it was anything on wheels,” laughed Jeremy Rosenwald, of Canonsburg, as he steered his remote-control truck during the annual Anything on Wheels event Saturday afternoon.
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Rafael Leal-Santiesteban, 2, is all smiles as he watches model trains and trolleys chug-chug by inside the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum's event room with his parents Emily and Sandro Leal-Santiesteban. The family, of Crafton, enjoyed the Anything on Wheels event Saturday.
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Julian Kozeo, 4, points to a classic car while his mother Alicia Kozeo and baby brother Lucas, 3 months, follow. Au pair Saneli Siwe snaps a photo of another vintage vehicle, far left.
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Classic cars lined the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum grounds all weekend as part of the annual Anything on Wheels event, which drew car lovers, trolley enthusiasts and history buffs of all ages from Washington County and beyond.
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Crowds watch as Pennsylvania Trolley Museum volunteers demonstrate a work car fixing cable lines during the parade Saturday afternoon.
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Crowds watch the trolley parade from the comfort of an old trolley car Saturday during the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum's Anything on Wheels event.
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Elexa Cecchetti, 5, and her deer Summer take the wheel in a brand-new, never-been-used-in-service UPS truck during the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum’s Anything on Wheels event. Cecchetti, of Upper St. Clair, spent Saturday at the museum grounds with her parents Ashlie and Elmo Cecchetti and two younger siblings: Ellie, 4, and Elmo, 2.
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"All aboard!" Or, in this case, it's all offboard, as Anything on Wheels attendees exit the trolley after a Saturday afternoon ride on car 27 at the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum.
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Trolleys and boats and cars, oh my!
All the wheely things were on display this weekend, during the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum’s annual Anything on Wheels event.
“What’s kind of neat about the event is we feature all kinds of transportation, all kinds of wheel transportation,” said Scott Becker, CEO and executive director of the museum. “We have firetrucks here. We have a brand new UPS truck that’s never been used in service. We have a 1957 wooden boat that’s on a trailer – it’s on wheels, so it’s anything. It’s really a lot of fun.”
Along with ogling shiny classic cars, enjoying entertaining kids games and delicious food truck eats, the event offered people the chance to tour the Trolley Museum’s updated exhibits and check out the restoration shop, where volunteers demonstrated how old trolley cars are brought back to life and maintained on-site.
“We have 22 trolleys that actually operate,” said Becker. “That’s like a small-town real trolley system from the old days.”
Working trolley cars were on parade several times throughout the two-day event. Crowds piled into a charming trolley car to watch the parade, narrated by volunteer Bruce Wells.
“This is a lot more than we normally tell people, what people get from the average visit,” said Wells, who explained that the orange Port Authority Transit car M210 was built in 1940 and, though a work car, newer than some of the more streamlined cars in operation at the time. “That’s (educating) my goal, always.”
The Kozeo clan, of Upper St. Clair, had fun following Julian Kozeo, 4, from vintage vehicle to vintage vehicle.
“My favorite fancy car is a convertible,” Julian Kozeo said.
His mother, Alicia Kozeo, said it was the family’s first time at Anything on Wheels.
The Pittsburgh Garden Railway Society set up a fantastic model train display inside the events room, and people popped in and out throughout the weekend to admire the handcrafted buildings and motorized cars chugging along the tracks.
“He is really into trains and cars,” smiled Emily Leal-Santiesteban, whose son Rafael, 2, pointed with a smile to the model display.
From model trolleys to rides on the real deal and all wheeled transportation in between, the Anything on Wheels event was, Becker hoped, fun for all.
“We have events like Bunny Trolley … and Santa Trolley, those are designed for families with young children. We still get a lot of families. This event is really for everybody,” he said. “We’re living history. We bring history to life. The trolleys connected us and we’re doing history that connects us.”
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