The Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennybunkport, Maine is the largest trolley museum in USA and one of the best museums I have ever visited (which I've now done twice). The museum is a fairly large outdoor facility with several buildings full of both restored and save-but-not-yet-repaired equipment. They also offer rides on restored trolleys, have a model train building, and host special events from time to time!
When I went to the museum in 2018 they had a good mix of rolling stock and trolleys around the public area of the campus. But, in 2024, most of the assorted rolling stock was tucked away into places the public could not see it so easily.
Here's a collection of photos from both my visits.
I have recreated a few of the pieces that the museum has in their collection, in 1:24 scale (or around there).
When I went to the museum in 2018 they had a good mix of rolling stock and trolleys around the public area of the campus. But, in 2024, most of the assorted rolling stock was tucked away into places the public could not see it so easily.
Here's a collection of photos from both my visits.
I have recreated a few of the pieces that the museum has in their collection, in 1:24 scale (or around there).
- My Piko 25-ton switcher engine is as close as I could get to a model of the museum's switcher, without doing serious reworking to the factory-made Piko shell.
- My pump car, which is a kit I built from Ozark Miniatures, is painted in the same colors as one the museum has stored in their B&M Railroad Tapleyville Station.
- My MRRRCo cars and LHRR flatbeds are all inspired by MRRRCo #8, which the museum owns.
