The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum hosted its annual Trick or Trolley on Saturday and Sunday. The event included holiday activities, face painting, and trolley rides. Costume-wearing children and adults got to trick-or-treat at the tables of local businesses and organizations that were stationed ...
Pittsburgh was both on the ropes and riding high when the 1980s got underway. The steel industry and other types of manufacturing were declining, unemployment was rising and families were looking elsewhere for jobs and opportunities. But even when the region as a whole was absorbing some ...
The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum celebrates old-time transportation while being powered by more contemporary forms of energy. The museum in Chartiers Township has 937 solar panels on the roofs of its Education and Welcome Center and the building where its trolleys are displayed. The museum ...
Jeanine DeBor is following her grandfather’s tracks. “The reason I love this place goes back to my grandfather, Tony DeSensi,” she said Wednesday morning, inside the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum, where DeBor is deputy executive director of the Chartiers Township complex – and where ...
The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum has added another vintage trolley to its collection. The museum announced last week it has acquired Red Arrow No. 83, a suburban streetcar that connected Philadelphia to its western suburbs. The trolley was built in 1932 by the J.G. Brill Company of ...
The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum in Washington celebrated the restoration of Pittsburgh Railways streetcar No. 1138 with a ceremonial rollout of the car on Wednesday. Built in 1937, the car was one of more than 600 delivered to Pittsburgh Railways from 1936 to 1939. The car represented a ...
