The front cover of the September 1956 issue of Trains Magazine.
It features a nice write-up by David A. Strassman of the early years
of the Seashore Trolley Museum.
Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine, will be celebrating its 85th anniversary in 2024. I have started digging into the early-year archives of the Museum, in search of stories we may post next year. I asked Museum Historian, Richmond Bates if he might check on some files. He did and in doing so, made a suggestion to me to consider looking for the September 1956 issue of Trains Magazine. That issue features a story about the early years of the Museum.
I went online and found one for sale through eBay. It arrived today. Enjoy :)
Page 51 - the photo in the bottom right-hand corner looks to me as
it might be longtime Seashore member, Donald Curry.
The image of 1906 Los Angeles Railway No. 521 was split in half by
the page crease...scroll down for the non-split but with a crease.
The image of the 1926 MTA Motor, side-dump No. 3608 also
was split in half by the page crease...scroll down for the
non-split but with a crease.
Image of 521 with the page crease.
Image of 3608 with the page crease.
Richmond shared with me a copy of a page from the November 1956 Trains Magazine that has two, Letters to the Editor, by the then, Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the New England Electric Railway Historical Society (owner of Seashore Trolley Museum), (Rev.) Alexander Hamilton and Charles Brown, one of the eight Founders of the Museum in 1939.
Page from the November 1956 issues of Trains Magazine.
Richmond also shared with me a page that has an article about the very early years of the Museum, but it has no markings showing what magazine or the date. I'm going to see if I can locate the source. Context leads me to believe 1945, maybe 1946.
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