The Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum is a small railroad museum in Shelburne Falls , Massachusetts , United States .
5-637: The museum (SFTM) is dedicated to preserving and operating car number 10 of the former Shelburne Falls and Colrain Street Railway . This is a combination passenger-baggage trolley car built by the Wason Manufacturing Company of Springfield, Massachusetts , in 1896 and is the last known trolley car from the Shelburne Falls & Colrain Street Railway. In 1992, Marshall Johnson donated car number 10 (which his father had bought and saved when
10-484: Is located in the old Buckland Freight yard. [REDACTED] Media related to Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum at Wikimedia Commons Shelburne Falls and Colrain Street Railway The Shelburne Falls and Colrain Street Railway was a rural trolley line that operated in the western Massachusetts towns of Buckland , Shelburne and Colrain from late 1896 to late 1927. Interchange was with
15-709: The Boston and Maine Railroad and the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad at the south end of the line at the Boston and Maine's Shelburne Falls station, which was on the Buckland side of the village. In 1927, faced with mounting debt, the SF&;C ceased operation and was sold at foreclosure. The line was scrapped in 1928. The only surviving equipment of the SF&C is the 32'9" eight-wheel Combination Baggage-Passenger car #10, manufactured by
20-653: The Wason company of Springfield, MA in 1896. The car has been fully restored to operating condition and today resides at the Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum at the site of the old Shelburne Falls depot. Brass models of this specific car were made by Fomras of Japan and imported to the US. The SF&C bridge across the Deerfield River was not scrapped (as it carried a water main) and was instead restored and turned into
25-452: The Shelburne Falls & Colrain Street Railway shut down, decades earlier) to a small group of people who restored the car back to working order. The museum also has a small assortment of equipment that is not related to the Shelburne Falls & Colrain Street Railway, including an ex- Central Vermont caboose , a Central Vermont handcar , two MBTA PCC cars, and other railroad and trolley equipment. The Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum
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