The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum in Washington PA is a time-machine all its own.  From when you get out of your car in the gravel lot to when you leave, it's like you're in the 1940s or 1950s.

Trolley # 5326 (above), built over 80 years ago in 1923, ran in West Philadelphia until 1957.

The westbound trolley tracks and turn-around look like they did fifty years ago--and I'll be you can't name one Class I railroad with tracks that look that good!

Looking in the trolley barn, you see maintenance going on like a day out of the 1940s...starting with a trolley parked over a workpit getting a new set of brakes...

...to a diesel locomotive, used to retrieve impaired electrical trolleys off the line, undergoing a complete piece by piece overhaul...

...to a ballast dumping self-propelled maintenance of way trolley ready to go drop another load of rip-rap stone along the right-of-way.

I'd like to say a special thanks to David who, while working on restoring "Ugly", the diesel locomotive, answered a lot of questions for me on trolleys and trolley restoration.  Also, Jack and Nick on the loading platform  made me feel right at home.  The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum is one of the few railroad museums I've been to where the railfan visitor is accepted as an equal; not a paid ticket at the door!