The Rockhill Trolley Museum is located at 430 Meadow Street, Rockhill Furnace, Pennsylvania

Rockhill Furnace, Pennsylvania

Rockhill is a borough in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 414 at the 2000 census. It is the site of the East Broad Top Railroad....

, 19 miles (30.6 km) north of the Pennsylvania Turnpike

Pennsylvania Turnpike

The Pennsylvania Turnpike is a toll highway system operated by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States. The three sections of the turnpike system total . The main section extends from Ohio to New Jersey and is long...

 and 11 miles (17.7 km) south of US 22, the William Penn Highway

William Penn Highway

The William Penn Highway was an auto trail in the United States, generally running from Pittsburgh east to New York City. It served as the eastern end of the Pikes Peak Ocean-to-Ocean Highway. The William Penn Highway Association of Pennsylvania was organized March 27, 1916 to promote a road...

.

The museum collects and restores traction equipment (trolley, interurban and transit cars) and operates the Shade Gap Electric Railway to demonstrate the operable pieces of its collection.

The museum is owned and operated by the group "Railways to Yesterday".

The East Broad Top Railroad

East Broad Top Railroad

The East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company is a for-profit heritage railroad headquartered in Rockhill Furnace, Pennsylvania, north of Interstate 76 and south of U.S. Route 22, the William Penn Highway. The railroad operates excursion trains on a seasonal schedule.-History:The East Broad Top...

 is next to the museum.

Roster

Number	Type	Heritage	Builder	Date	Condition	Notes
9	Snow sweeper	Washington, D.C.	McGuire-Cummings Manufacturing Company McGuire-Cummings Manufacturing Company McGuire-Cummings Manufacturing Company was a streetcar builder based in Paris, Illinois. The company was one of a few suppliers for the Toronto Civic Railways.-Products:* DE DT M - later TTC Class I cars* DE ST snow sweepers...	1899	Operating	Originally ran on third-rail power
10	Snowplow Snowplow A snowplow is a device intended for mounting on a vehicle, used for removing snow and ice from outdoor surfaces, typically those serving transportation purposes...	Philadelphia and Western Railroad Philadelphia and Western Railroad The Philadelphia and Western Railroad was a high-speed, third rail-operated, commuter-hauling interurban electric railroad operating in the western suburbs of the U.S. city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. One of its lines is now SEPTA's R100 Norristown High Speed Line; the other has been abandoned...	Wason Manufacturing Company Wason Manufacturing Company The Wason Manufacturing Company was a maker of railway passenger coaches and streetcars during the 19th and early 20th century. The company was founded in 1845 in Springfield, Massachusetts by Charles Wason and Thomas Wason ....	1915	Operating	Retired 1988, last operating trolley snowplow in the United States outside of a museum.
12	Tram	Harrisburg Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Harrisburg is the capital of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 49,528, making it the ninth largest city in Pennsylvania...  Railways	Jackson and Sharp Company Jackson and Sharp Company Jackson and Sharp Company was an American railroad car manufacturer and shipbuilder in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The company was founded in 1863 by Job H. Jackson , a tinsmith and retail merchant, and Jacob F. Sharp Jackson and Sharp Company was an American railroad car manufacturer...	1895	Inoperable
61	Tram	Philadelphia Suburban	Brill	1925	Inoperable	Center door
107	Snow sweeper	Scranton Scranton, Pennsylvania Scranton is a city in the northeastern part of Pennsylvania, United States. It is the county seat of Lackawanna County and the largest principal city in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area. Scranton had a population of 76,089 in 2010, according to the U.S...  Transit	Chicago and Joliet Electric Railway Chicago and Joliet Electric Railway The Chicago and Joliet Electric Railway, or C&JE, was an electric interurban railway linking the cities of Chicago and Joliet, Illinois. It was the only interurban between those cities and provided a link between the streetcar network of Chicago and the cities along the Illinois River Valley in...	1910	Operating	Steeple-cab
162	Tram	Philadelphia and Western	Brill	1927	Inoperable	High-speed interurban Interurban An interurban, also called a radial railway in parts of Canada, is a type of electric passenger railroad; in short a hybrid between tram and train. Interurbans enjoyed widespread popularity in the first three decades of the twentieth century in North America. Until the early 1920s, most roads were...  car
163	Tram	York York, Pennsylvania York, known as the White Rose City , is a city located in York County, Pennsylvania, United States which is in the South Central region of the state. The population within the city limits was 43,718 at the 2010 census, which was a 7.0% increase from the 2000 count of 40,862...  Railways	Brill	1924	Operating	Rare curved-sides car
172	Tram	CCFP/STCP (Porto, Portugal)	CCFP	1929	Operating	Semi-convertible (open/closed) car.
205	Tram	Philadelphia and Western	Brill	1931	Operating	Only operating Brill bullet
249	Tram	CCFP/STCP	Brill	1904	Operating	Semi-convertible.
311	streetcar	Johnstown Traction Company Johnstown Traction Company Johnstown Traction Company was a public transit system in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States. For most of its existence it was primarily a street-railway system, but in later years also operated rubber-tired vehicles. JTC operated trolley service in Johnstown from February 23, 1910 to June...	Wason	1922	Operating	First car of the museum.
315	Tram	Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad The Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad , known colloquially as the "Roarin' Elgin" or the "Great Third Rail", was an interurban railroad that operated passenger and freight service on its line between Chicago, Illinois and Aurora, Batavia, Geneva, St. Charles, and Elgin. The railroad also operated...	G. C. Kuhlman Car Company G. C. Kuhlman Car Company The G. C. Kuhlman Car Company was a leading American manufacturer of streetcars and interurbans in the early 20th century. The company was based in Cleveland, Ohio....	1909	Operating	Wooden interurban car
355	Tram	Johnstown Traction	St. Louis Car Company St. Louis Car Company The St. Louis Car Company was a major United States manufacturer of railroad passenger cars, streetcars, trolleybuses and locomotives that existed from 1887–1973, based in St. Louis, Missouri.-History:...	Under restoration	1926
402	Box motor Box motor A box motor, in railroad terminology, is a self-propelled boxcar, normally powered by electricity and running on an interurban railway or a streetcar line. Many box motors were converted from passenger cars on the systems that ran them, with the seats and most of the windows removed and large...	Philadelphia and Western	Detroit United Railway Detroit United Railway The Detroit United Railway was a transport company which operated numerous streetcar and interurban lines in southeast Michigan. Although many of the lines were originally built by different companies, they were consolidated under the control of the Everett-Moore syndicate, a Cleveland-based group...	Operating	1920	Double-ended
710	Tram	Harrisburg Railways	Brill	1913	Inoperable	Semi-convertible.
1009	Rapid transit Rapid transit A rapid transit, underground, subway, elevated railway, metro or metropolitan railway system is an electric passenger railway in an urban area with a high capacity and frequency, and grade separation from other traffic. Rapid transit systems are typically located either in underground tunnels or on...  car	Delaware River Port Authority Bridge-line car	Brill	1936	Inoperable	Sold to Philadelphia Broad Street Subway for $10,000 following the formation of the PATCO Speedline in 1968.
1875	Tram	Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...  Tramways	Brill	1912	Operating	Only operating open car in Pennsylvania Pennsylvania The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to... .
2743	PCC streetcar PCC streetcar The PCC streetcar design was first built in the United States in the 1930s. The design proved successful in its native country, and after World War II was licensed for use elsewhere in the world...	Philadelphia Transportation Company	St. Louis Car Company	1947	Operating	Originally broad gauge Rail gauge Track gauge or rail gauge is the distance between the inner sides of the heads of the two load bearing rails that make up a single railway line. Sixty percent of the world's railways use a standard gauge of . Wider gauges are called broad gauge; smaller gauges, narrow gauge. Break-of-gauge refers... .
19137	Caboose Caboose A caboose is a manned North American rail transport vehicle coupled at the end of a freight train. Although cabooses were once used on nearly every freight train, their use has declined and they are seldom seen on trains, except on locals and smaller railroads.-Function:The caboose provided the...	Pennsylvania Railroad Pennsylvania Railroad The Pennsylvania Railroad was an American Class I railroad, founded in 1846. Commonly referred to as the "Pennsy", the PRR was headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....		1900s	Not used	N-5 steel
C-64	Freight flat	CCFP/STCP	CCFP	1933	Operating	Now used as a track maintenance car.
D-39	Tower car	SEPTA	Philadelphia Rapid Transit	1908	Operating	Overhead wire maintenance car.
M-25	GE 25-ton switcher	Adtranz Adtranz ABB Daimler-Benz Transportation , commonly known under its brand Adtranz, was a multi-national rail transport equipment manufacturer with facilities concentrated in Europe and the USA....	General Electric Transportation Systems	1942	Operating	Originally owned by United States Navy United States Navy The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...
M-100	Speeder Speeder A speeder is a maintenance of way motorized vehicle formerly used on railroads around the world by track inspectors and work crews to move quickly to and...	United States Navy United States Navy The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...	Kalamazoo Manufacturing	1945	Operating	Petrol engine Petrol engine A petrol engine is an internal combustion engine with spark-ignition, designed to run on petrol and similar volatile fuels....
X-4	Cherry picker Cherry picker A cherry picker , is a type of aerial work platform that consists of a platform or bucket at the end of a hydraulic lifting system.- Design :...  car		Rockhill Trolley Museum	1998	Operating
X-39	Caboose	Central of Georgia Railway			Not used	Wooden
BT-1	Boom truck	Curry Supply Company	GMC	1981	Operating
Independence Hall	Electroliner Electroliner The Electroliners were a pair of electric passenger train sets operated by the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad, which ran between Chicago, Illinois, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. These streamlined electric multiple unit interurban trains were built by St. Louis Car Company in 1941. Each...	Philadelphia Suburban	St. Louis Car Company	1941	Stored inoperable	Originally Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad The Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad, often called the North Shore Line, was an interurban railroad line that operated between Chicago, Illinois, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, until its abandonment in 1963.- Early history :...  No. 803-804
	Ballast car		Rockhill Trolley Museum	1999	In use
	Railroad tie Railroad tie A railroad tie/railway tie , or railway sleeper is a rectangular item used to support the rails in railroad tracks... nipper		Rockhill Trolley Museum	2000	In use

External links

• Rockhill Trolley Museum website