During the Seashore Trolley Museum’s recent Annual Meeting, museum leaders and members recognized one of the museum’s longest serving leaders, President & CEO James D. Schantz by renaming one of the museum’s trolley display carhouses in his honor. The James D. Schantz Highwood Carhouse is home to 20 preserved and restored transit artifacts […]
Seashore Trolley Museum will join museums nationwide again this season in the Blue Star Museums initiative, a program that provides free admission to currently-serving U.S. military personnel and their families this summer. The 2023 program will begin on Armed Forces Day (Saturday, May 20) and ends on Labor Day weekend (Sunday, September 3). Find […]
All aboard! We are opening for our 84th season on Saturday, May 6th from 9:30AM-4:30PM and will be open weekends in May, and Wednesdays-Sundays from June 1st through Halloween. Experience history in motion on interactive trolley rides on the museum’s private heritage electric railroad, which once served as a portion of Maine’s Atlantic […]
Sign-ups are now open for our 2023 Railway Operations Training! Volunteer to operate trolleys for our guests this season at the world’s first and largest electric railway museum. The first part of our new operator training is four, 2-hour Zoom classes. We are offering these classes on either Mondays or Tuesdays. Group one classes […]
Seashore Trolley Museum’s Model Railroad Building Construction Underway Seashore Trolley Museum recently broke ground on what now will be a $3.2M construction project to exhibit one of Maine’s largest HO-scale railroad layouts. The model railroad depicts the Maine Central Railroad in the 1940s-60s and is being relocated from Jonesport, Maine thanks to a […]
Support Boston Elevated Railway No. 5821 Today! Today is GivingTuesday, a global generosity movement and day of giving. Seashore Trolley Museum is raising funds on GivingTuesday to repair both trucks on Boston Elevated Railway No. 5821. No. 5821 has been part of our operating fleet for several years. Perhaps you even took a ride on 5821 […]
Click here to download our 2023 Trustee Application. To Our Members and Supporters: We invite shareholding members in good standing and community supporters who can demonstrate they will meet and exceed all Trustee roles, expectations, and goals to apply for a Trustee position on the Board of Trustees. The application period for the position […]
Take an adventure to Seashore Trolley Museum on Saturday and Sunday September 17th and 18th for a meet and greet with Clifford, from the PBS KIDS series Clifford The Big Red Dog. Hop on a trolley and take a ride on the museum’s heritage railway to take photos with Clifford The Big Red Dog. […]
All aboard! Join Seashore Trolley Museum for a fan favorite — Ice Cream Night! This summer tradition is held every Wednesday in July and August from 5:30PM-7:30PM. Guests are treated to a special evening trolley ride on the museum’s heritage railway through their 350-acre campus AND an ice cream sundae with all the fixin’s! […]
Seashore Trolley Museum will join museums nationwide again this season in the Blue Star Museums initiative, a program that provides free admission to currently-serving U.S. military personnel and their families this summer. The 2022 program began on Armed Forces Day and ends on Labor Day. Find the list of participating museums at arts.gov/bluestarmuseums. Blue Star Museums is an initiative […]