BRANFORD TROLLEY MUSEUM, Connecticut

ID # 2,033

BRANFORD TROLLEY MUSEUM, Connecticut

No. 1414, former Conn. Co. open bench car, with W. Knickman as motorman, rambles gracefully over Rock Quarry trestle on its journey to East Haven over the Branford Electric Railway.

The Museum consists of over 40 electric railway cars - from horse cars to streamliners. Cool, shady picnicking facilities available. Located just off U. S. 1, Conn. 142, and Conn. Turnpike Exit 51 at East Haven.

SCHEDULE OF TROLLEY OPERATION

Sun. afternoons: April thru Nov. Also Sat. and Hol. afternoons: May 30th thru. Labor Day.

Anscochrome by: Vitaly V. Uzoff

MONTREAL & SOUTHERN COUNTIES RWY.

ID # 2,031

MONTREAL & SOUTHERN COUNTIES RWY.

#9 photographed on May 21st, 1955 at Ranelagh car stop, having just crossed the C.N.R. #9 was built in 1911 as a combine by the Grand Trunk Rwy. In 1934 it was rebuilt into a double end car. The car is now preserved at the Branford Electric Rwy. Museum.

Photo by "Skipper" Clark

Third Avenue Railway System #629

ID # 27,512

BRANFORD TROLLEY MUSEUM
East Haven, Connecticut

No. 629 was built in 1937 by the Third Avenue Railway System and served Manhattan and The Bronx for nine years. In 1949 it went with 39 other New York trolleys to Vienna as postwar aid where they ran until 1966. In 1967 the Austrian Government donated it to the museum, and the journey to Connecticut included a day's exhibition in Central Park. For 3 years the car operated as 4239 in Vienna colors. In 1970 the museum repainted it inside and out, and it returned to operation as Third Avenue 829.

SCHEDULE OF TROLLEY OPERATION FOR VISITORS
July and Aug. - daily; June and Sept. - Sat. & Sun. April, May, Oct., Nov. - Sunday

Descriptive Material for the Branford Trolley Museum

ID # 9,245

Montreal & Southern Counties Railway Trolley #9

ID # 2,032

BRANFORD TROLLEY MUSEUM
East Haven. Connecticut

Convertible trolley No. 1706 was built in 1913 for the Toronto Railway Co. in Canada. In summer one side's panels were removed, and the longitudinal seats inside were replaced by cross benches, transforming 1706 into a semi-open streetcar. Here, with years of restoration work almost completed, it poses
for its portrait (restorer John R. Stevens is at the controls).

SCHEDULE OF TROLLEY OPERATION FOR VISITORS

April. May, Oct., Nov. - Sunday afternoons; June and Sept. - Sat. & Sun, afternoons; July and August - every day.