Penn\u00adsyl\u00adva\u00adnia Trol\u00adley Mu\u00adseum in Chart\u00adiers, Wash\u00ading\u00adton County, houses early 20th cen\u00adtury pub\u00adlic trans\u00adpor\u00adta\u00adtion that need tender lov\u00ading care.<\/p>\n
Ev\u00adery\u00adbody vis\u00adit\u00ading on the week\u00adend sees the charm\u00ading uni\u00adformed op\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtors and gift shop work\u00aders. But dur\u00ading the week is when the magic hap\u00adpens, and it’s dirty work. There’s a con\u00adstantly evolv\u00ading list of which trol\u00adley needs what main\u00adte\u00adnance and when. If a part needs to be re\u00adplaced, they just can’t or\u00adder one from a cat\u00ada\u00adlog. There are no trol\u00adley parts stores. The needed part must be sal\u00advaged, adapted or cre\u00adated.<\/p>\n
Former West Penn Rail\u00adways No. 832 plied the com\u00adpany’s Val\u00adley Lines from New Kens\u00ading\u00adton to Aspin\u00adwall un\u00adtil the 1936 flood wreaked havoc on the line, push\u00ading ser\u00advice into ex\u00adtinc\u00adtion. The car was trans\u00adferred to the West Penn lines in West\u00admore\u00adland and Fay\u00adette coun\u00adties, where its ser\u00advice life ended.<\/p>\n
It has been un\u00adder res\u00adtora\u00adtion for sev\u00aderal years. The body has been rec\u00adre\u00adated and painted in the dis\u00adtinc\u00adtive West Penn or\u00adange. Match\u00ading color for his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal ac\u00adcu\u00adracy is im\u00adpor\u00adtant. For you Pitts\u00adburgh Rail\u00adways Co. fans, those PPC cars that closed out the com\u00adpany’s ser\u00advice aren’t just red and cr\u00e8me. They’re Moun\u00adtain Ash Scar\u00adlett and Pi\u00adca\u00addor Creme, thank you. You can find pris\u00adtine res\u00adtora\u00adtions of the trol\u00adley your grand\u00adpar\u00adents rode to Down\u00adtown at this mu\u00adseum.<\/p>\n
The Penn\u00adsyl\u00adva\u00adnia Trol\u00adley Mu\u00adseum is at 1 Mu\u00adseum Road, just off North Main Street in Chart\u00adiers, across from the Washington County Fair\u00adgrounds. It is open Fri\u00addays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Satur\u00addays and Sun\u00addays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Santa trol\u00adley rides are Dec. 5, 6, 12 and 15. 724-228-9256. www.pa\u00adtrol\u00adley.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n Penn\u00adsyl\u00adva\u00adnia Trol\u00adley Mu\u00adseum in Chart\u00adiers, Wash\u00ading\u00adton County, houses early 20th cen\u00adtury pub\u00adlic trans\u00adpor\u00adta\u00adtion that need tender lov\u00ading care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":2140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15,187],"tags":[],"coauthors":[52],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/06\/SS_20151125radTrolleyLocal05-4.jpg?fit=2600%2C2105&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2141,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions\/2141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}