Oregon Electric Railway Museum
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The Oregon Electric Railway Museum is the largest trolley museum in the Pacific Northwest.
It is owned and operated by the Oregon Electric Railway Historical Society in Brooks, Oregon on the grounds of Antique Powerland.[1]
The original museum opened in the early 1960s in Glenwood, Oregon. The current museum opened in Brooks in 1996. The museum consists of about one mile of mainline track with overhead. There is a four track carbarn to store the international collection of streetcars.
The trolley fleet includes
- 2 Portland Council Crest Brill streetcars
- Portland Brill master unit
- Portland built interurban
- Blackpool England double-decker tram
- Vancouver, B.C. BCERwy interurban
- Sydney, Australia, 'Breezer' streetcar
- Porto, Portuguese single-truck streetcar
- Los Angeles "yellow" car
- 2 San Francisco PCC's
- San Francisco Boeing LRV
- Hong Kong double-decker tram
- Portland snow sweeper
- 3 electric locomotive "steeple cabs"
- 3 types of trolley buses
The museum is open from May through October with trolley operations on weekends. The big event of the year is the annual steamup during the last week of July, first weekend of August. Thousands of riders use the trolley during these two weekends.
[edit] References
- ^ Oregon Electric Railway Museum (Trolley Museum). Trainweb. Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
