Once a familiar sight in the City of Brotherly Love, this so-called "Nearside" car from Philadelphia is one of the trolleys of yesteryear preserved at the Seashore Trolley Museum at Kennebunkport, Maine. No. 6618 was built by J. G. Brill of Philadelphia in 1912. Because its trucks were designed for the city's track gauge of 5 ft. 2 1/4 in., they had to be rebuilt so the car could be operated on Seashore's standard (4 ft. 8 1/2 in.) gauge trackage. "World's Oldest and Largest Electric Railway Museum."
Collection of Matthew D. Cosgro
Image > Postcard > Printed > Chrome
Object ID 9304005348, Recorded 2022-01-24
Storage Location: Postcards - Box 2
Photographer: Peter Bach
Printer: Dexter Press, Inc.
Publisher: John Stern
Date, Image Taken: Unknown Date
Postmark: Not postally used.
Location, depicts: Kennebunkport, Maine
Location, was published at: New Rochelle, New York
Location, was printed at: West Nyack, New York
Subject, Business: Seashore Trolley Museum