Seashore Trolley Museum, Kennebunkport, ME

The Seashore Trolley Museum is the largest and oldest museum of mass transit vehicles.  In 1939, the Biddeford and Saco Railroad began purchasing motor buses to replace their trolley cars, and the formation of the museum was born.  Led by Harvard Graduate Theodore Santarelli, a group of railfans purchased a single trolley to preserve for posterity for $150.00 and it was moved to Log Cabin Road in Kennebunkport, ME. The group merged with another group of railfans who purchased a trolley from the Manchester and Nashua Street Railway. 

During World War II the museum was temporarily put on hold due to many of its members enlisting and the conversion of trolleys to buses stalled.  After the war the conversion to buses resumed causing a mass influx of trolleys for the museum’s collection.

As of 2010, the museum houses over 260 vehicles from all over the United States as well as trolleys from as far away as Japan and Australia.  The collection has expanded to include locomotives, buses, and even state of the art rapid transit railcars.