This site provides an overview of vintage trolley operations in North America. From these pages you can visit the impressive variety of systems now in regular operation, as well as learn about proposals for new systems. Each page contains links to websites covering the individual systems, so additional information is always close at hand.
New information is being added continuously, so please check back regularly.
For purposes of this web site, a vintage trolley is a regularly-scheduled operation using genuine historic or replica electric railway cars in an urban environment, which is operated independently from an established railway or trolley museum. The cars run on rails and operate electrically from overhead wires or from a mobile generator. We won't be completely strict with this definition, but we do think you'll appreciate reading about all of the locations covered. A vintage trolley operation strives to provide an authentic historic trolley experience that mixes urban transportation with visitor entertainment. In many cases, the vintage trolley lines are operated as part of the local transit system, and in other cases by a local non-profit organization, or by some combination of the two.