Scout Workshop: BSA Environmental Science

Pennsylvania Trolley Museum 1 Electric Way, Washington, PA, United States

This merit badge workshop is open to any youth in 6th – 12th grade and is designed to help BSA scouts meet requirements for the Environmental Science merit badge. We will be […]

$20.00

Scout Workshop: BSA Weather

This merit badge workshop is open to any youth in 6th – 12th grade and is designed to help BSA scouts meet requirements for the Environmental Science merit badge. We will be […]

$20.00

Scout Workshop: BSA Communications

This merit badge workshop is open to any youth in 6th – 12th grade and is designed to help BSA Scouts meet requirements for the Communications merit badge. We will be covering […]

$30.00

Scout Workshop: BSA Electricity

This merit badge workshop is open to any youth in 6th – 12th grade and is designed to help BSA Scouts meet requirements for the Electricity merit badge. We will be covering […]

$20.00
Event Series Trolleyology

Trolleyology: Frank Who?

Frank Sprague is an unsung electrical genius who was born in Milford, Connecticut.  People traveling today in modern trolleys/streetcars/trams are doing so courtesy of his inventions, and anyone taking a train into Grand Central Terminal in New York can see another of his inventions, from 1903, in daily use.  To find out more about this remarkable man and his influence on modern transport, join Shore Line Trolley Museum volunteer Tom Laurenson on August 29th.  And what could be the connection between Frank Sprague and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art?  Find that answer too!

Free

Event Series Tour Guide Training

Tour Guide Training

We're expanding!  The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum will soon be moving to the new Welcome and Education Center, opening Fall 2023. With the move, visitors will get to experience the Museum […]

Event Series Tour Guide Training

Tour Guide Training

We're expanding!  The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum will soon be moving to the new Welcome and Education Center, opening Fall 2023. With the move, visitors will get to experience the Museum […]

Event Series New Operator Training

New Operator Training

Pennsylvania Trolley Museum 1 Electric Way, Washington, PA, United States

Join the volunteer team at the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum as a trolley operator! This fall, the museum is offering two classes for those interested in educating visitors about the Trolley […]

Event Series New Operator Training

New Operator Training

Pennsylvania Trolley Museum 1 Electric Way, Washington, PA, United States

Join the volunteer team at the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum as a trolley operator! This fall, the museum is offering two classes for those interested in educating visitors about the Trolley […]

Scout Workshop: BSA Railroading Merit Badge Workshop

This merit badge workshop is open to any youth in grades 6th – 12th grade and is designed to help BSA scouts meet requirements for the Railroading merit badge. We will be […]

$20.00
Event Series Trolleyology

Trolleyology: Cemetery Transit: A History of Death Riding the Rails

Transportation and the cemetery have been linked for centuries, from 19th-century ferries carrying the dead in New York City to early 20th-century funerary street cars in Mexico City. Every city had to find a way to move its departed citizens to their final stop, such as Pittsburgh's Citizens Passenger Railway Horsecar, which in 1859 established a route between Fifth Avenue and a cemetery. This online talk led by Allison Meier, the author of Grave (Bloomsbury, 2023) and a cemetery tour guide, will chronicle these surprising connections between the dead and transit both in the United States and around the world, including a look at some historic curios like the London Necropolis Railway and presidential funeral trains.

Free
A Collection of Nearly 50 Cars and Counting

support our mission to keep the trolley era alive