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Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum

About Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum

The Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum is a small railroad museum in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, United States.

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 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 is located in the old Buckland Freight yard.

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  2. CV 4015 and Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum carbarn, September02CV and Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum carbarn, SeptemberPi.1415926535 · CC BY-SA 3.0
  3. MBTA 3299 at Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum, September03MBTA at Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum, SeptemberPi.1415926535 · CC BY-SA 3.0
  4. MEC 901 (BAR 230) at Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum, September04MEC (BAR ) at Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum, SeptemberPi.1415926535 · CC BY-SA 3.0
  5. Shelburne Falls freight house, September05Shelburne Falls freight house, SeptemberPi.1415926535 · CC BY-SA 3.0
  6. Rear of Shelburne Falls freight house, September06Rear of Shelburne Falls freight house, SeptemberPi.1415926535 · CC BY-SA 3.0

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