Category: Restoration Work

Help Support PTM’s Parts for the Future!

Posted onAuthorRoger DuPuis II

The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum has been fortunate to acquire many spare parts for its fleet of historic streetcars over the years and provide inside storage for these parts.

Thanks to the help of the Middletown & Hummelstown Railroad (M&H RR), the Friends of Philadelphia Trolleys, other trolley museums, CicKo Transportation, and Alex Paris Contracting, FPT also has acquired Red Arrow “80 car” 83, as well as many rare spare parts that will be a great help in restoring and maintaining its fleet of historic Philadelphia streetcars.

The museum also recently acquired many parts from PTC/SEPTA sweeper C-121 and PTC/SEPTA PCCs 2095 and 2725. These parts will help the museum eventually restore and operate Red Arrow Car 83, PRT Standard Car 2282, PTC 8042, and SEPTA PCC 2723.

The M&H RR is almost 200 miles away from PTM and hundreds of hours of volunteer and paid staff time have been devoted to this project over the past year.

All of the allocated parts have been relocated to PTM and are safely stored indoors. Most of the museum’s costs have been met, but $4,000 still needs to be raised to cover all of its costs.

Please consider donating to this important project that will help to keep PTM’s trolleys running! Please see the attached flyer if you are interested in donating.

SEPTA PCC rebuild project continues

Posted onAuthorRoger DuPuis II

The talented staff at SEPTA’s Woodland Shops is in the process of giving the Girard Avenue cars a new lease on life, as documented in this post.

Bill Monaghan and Roger DuPuis visited the shops this week to see several of the current projects up close. This selection of photos from their visit should give you a sense of how much work is going into the cars.

SEPTA PCC III 2332 came out of the paint booth on March 9 at Woodland and can be seen in some of these photos. While there is still work to be done to complete the car (wiring, reinstallation of overhauled trucks, interior finishing), the body work and paint job are stunning.

We included the outdoor shot of 2326 to help convey the condition of some cars on arrival. The ghostly white car, meanwhile is 2328 (that’s its stripped interior you also see), while the green car with no number and disassembled side panels is 2322. Another car, 2337, can be seen up on jacks. Other items of interest seen here are a pair of shiny anti-climbers waiting to be installed and air conditioning roof pods undergoing refurbishment.

We’ve rounded out the album with LRV 9074 glistening in a flawless coat of white paint as it awaited reinstallation of various fittings — testament to the quality of work being done at Woodland.

We hope you will enjoy these photos as a glimpse behind the scenes at a critical part of maintaining trolley service in Philadelphia.

A banner day for C-145 restoration

Posted onAuthorRoger DuPuis II

On March 2, 2019, Baltimore Streetcar Museum and Friends of Philadelphia Trolleys members started working on Matthew E. Nawn’s Eagle Scout project to renovate 1923 Philadelphia Rapid Transit sweeper car C-145.

On July 11, 2020, we installed the last piece of the tongue and groove on the sides of the car, a major milestone in the effort. Members of the group are seen here celebrating the occasion.

The project is not yet finished, however. If anyone would like to make a donation, please click on the donation button here on our website.

Thanks to everyone who has donated and participated in this worthwhile effort!