Appendix Ill: Resources
Beyond this study, there are a
number of other useful places to go for information on streetcars. The
American Public Transportation Association (APTA), the underwriter of this
study, has established a Heritage Trolley Task Force. The task force is in
turn hosted by America's oldest streetcar museum, the Seashore Trolley
Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine. APTA’s Heritage Trolley Task Force has a web
site, which you can locate at www.heritagetrolley.org.
You may contact its Chairman, Mr. Jim Graebner (who is also a consultant on
streetcars, and a good one), at (303) 628-5510. And you may reach the
Seashore Trolley Museum at (207) 967-2712.
Streetcar museums are often an
excellent source of expertise. While museum operations differ somewhat from
the operation of a regular streetcar line, museums have the great virtue of
knowing how to do things cheaply (because they usually don't have very much
money). They can also be helpful in locating (and sometimes providing)
Vintage streetcars that used to run in your city, or models or plans from
which new streetcars can be built to the old designs. Often, they are also
sources for volunteers. Most states have at least one streetcar museum. A
good guide to the streetcar museums of North America is Veteran & Vintage
Transit by Andrew D. Young (Archway Publishing, St. Louis, MO, 1997).
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