The National Collection of Streetcars captures a vehicle from almost every major U.S. city that had streetcar service. From the northern woods of Maine to the pristine coast of California, the city streets of Detroit to Dallas, the collection has a little of everything. Within the National Collection is the largest collection of vehicles from any one city - Boston. Supplementing the National Collection is our International Collection with streetcars from every corner of the globe.
From newest to oldest - a historic line-up of East Boston (Blue Line) subway trains
Around the Museum grounds, not just in the carbarns, are examples of mass transit both found on rails and on the roads. See trains that you'd find under the streets of New York City or over the streets of Boston on the long-gone elevated railway. Our growing collection of buses and trackless trolleys capture the progress of mass transit since the end of streetcar service in cities.
Atlantic Shore Line Railway Locomotive #100
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Follow the restoration process to completion of Seashore Trolley Museum's hometown piece, an electric locomotive from the railway that the Museum's demonstration railway is laid upon.
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U.S. Department of Transportation's State-of-the-Art Rapid Transit Cars
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These futuristic looking subway cars were a test of new technology and designs to bring a renaissance to the transit systems of our country's biggest cities in the 1970s.
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Washington D.C. 6481: Civil Rights Exhibit
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King Middle School in Portland and Maine College of Art students, moved by Claudette Colvin's brave defense of Civil Rights, share Colvin's story through their artwork.
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