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From: wjm@whuxl.UUCP (MITCHELL)
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Subject: RR Museums
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Date: Fri, 26-Oct-84 13:14:31 EDT
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The museum in Branford, CT is the Shoreline Trolley Museum (formerly the
Branford Electric RR Association).  They have a large collection of ex-BMT
equipment from NYC as well as much New Haven trolley equipment.  It is about
75 miles north-east of NYC, not too far from I-95 (and there are signs giving
directions from the Interstate).  You can also take Metro North or Amtrak trains
to New Haven and then take a local bus to the museum (I think its the F-2 line).

For those of you in Southern California, you haven't been neglected since you
can visit the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris (off of I-15E about 90
miles from LA and 90 miles from San Diego).  Their collection specializes in
LA area trolley equipment, and they also have cars from San Francisco, San
Diego, and New Orleans.  They also have operating diesel main line railroad
equipment.

Both of these museums are Operating museums, and you can ride the equipment on
weekends and on holidays.
Interurbans published a book "Trolley to the Past" which I bought from the
OERM bookshop (admitted vested interest - I'm a member of OERM) that describes
all the operating trolley museums in the US and Canada.

For you GG-1 fans in the Midwest, Union RR Museum has a GG-1.  I'd like to know
if it is operational, and if so how did they do it - string up 11KV catenary
and put in a frequency changer (GG-1's were designed to run on 25Hz, and 60Hz
upsets their digestion :-)), or modify the GG-1 to run on 600 vdc??
Also, on the subject of GG-1's, I wish NJTransit would keep several fixed up for
fan trips.
Regards,
Bill Mitchell