Historic trolleys for transit use.......

Kenneth Cotton · **Posted:** Mon Jul 07, 2003 12:20 pm

Somewhere there is a historic trolley group that is providing transit service under contract to a transit agency.Does anyone know who it is and how to contact them? thaks in advance!

kbcotton@flash.net

G. Jenista · **Posted:** Mon Jul 07, 2003 1:05 pm

> Somewhere there is a historic trolley group
> that is providing transit service under
> contract to a transit agency.Does anyone
> know who it is and how to contact them?

McKinney Avenue Transit, in Dallas Texas, does it, I believe, for DART. Http://mata.org

hi_plain@yahoo.com

dave · **Posted:** Mon Jul 07, 2003 1:07 pm

San Francisco, too.

Dave

irondave@bellsouth.net

Ken Middlebrook · **Posted:** Mon Jul 07, 2003 2:17 pm

Our organization leases five of our restored trolleys to the local transit authority for operation in downtown San Jose.

If you have a specific question, email me offline.

Ken Middlebrook
California Trolley and Railroad Corporation

http://WWW.VTA.ORG/schedules/SC_920.html
kamiddle@rockwellcollins.com

Ted Miles · **Posted:** Mon Jul 07, 2003 9:40 pm

The Seashore Trolley Museum is running one of their cars on National Park Service track at Lowell,Massachusetts this summer.

More on this at the Seashore web site.

ted_miles@nps.gov

Robert J. Reich · **Posted:** Tue Jul 08, 2003 9:55 pm

> Somewhere there is a historic trolley group
> that is providing transit service under
> contract to a transit agency.

In Portland, OR, restored historic trolleys are run on the light rail line for the public on specified days.

RJReich@aol.com

Brian Norden · **Posted:** Tue Jul 08, 2003 11:22 pm

> In Portland, OR, restored historic trolleys
> are run on the light rail line for the
> public on specified days.

I think that those are replica cars not actual historic trolleys.

Brian Norden

bnorden49@earthlink.net

C.Wylde · **Posted:** Wed Jul 09, 2003 11:10 pm

Check our RYPN contributor, John Smatlak's Website for substantial information on several trolley operations nationwide.

North American Vintage Trolley Systems
wyld@sbcglobal.net