Join PTM staff, volunteers, and members for our Zoom series, Trolleyology! These programs feature Pennsylvania transit history topics and tales of our collection that you can experience from home. Registration is required but free of charge. Donations are welcome and encouraged.
June 19, 2025 – 7 PM ET – Presented by Dr. Rich Allman
Dr. Rich Allman will present “A Feast of Deck Roof Cars,” including black and white photos from Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, West Chester, Philadelphia Rapid Transit, Fairmount Park, Hershey, York, Wilkes Barre, Conestoga, Pittsburgh and Lehigh Valley), as well as photos from Baltimore, Boston, Washington, Brooklyn, Third Avenue and Public Service, plus rapid transit cars in Boston, Chicago, the BMT and Staten Island Rapid Transit.
Rich Allman is a member of several rail organizations, including the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum (#1003) and the East Penn Traction Club which he joined in 1984 and served as president from 1989-1991 and 2001-2003. His traction interests include historical and modern light rail operations worldwide, preservation, collecting photographs, and HO scale traction modeling. Rich is a physician in clinical practice and education, having served on the clinical faculty of Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia since 1992, and was associate director of the residency program in internal medicine. He was medical staff president from 2006-2009 and again from 2015-2016. Rich is currently the lead consultant in clinical ethics at Einstein and also oversees residents in internal medicine in their outpatient experience. Rich is an associate professor of medicine at the Sidney Kimmel School of Medicine of Thomas Jefferson University.
This program will be recorded and available at a later date on the PTM YouTube channel.
Trolleyology presentations will continue on a regular or semi-regular basis. Interested in presenting? Email Kristen at kfred@patrolley.org! We’re specifically looking for programs related to the Trolley Era in general, Pennsylvania transit history, or stories about our collection. Please join our e-mail list to stay up-to-date with program announcements and other PTM news!
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NOTE: This is a virtual event
