Two Cars for Rockhill

Back in November, it was reported here that two cars from the Middletown & Hummelstown were headed to the Rockhill Trolley Museum. Those cars both headed to Rockhill Furnace today and were unloaded this afternoon. Thanks to Joel Salomon of RTM for the photos and update! The first car, shown above after being un-tarped, is Lewistown & Reedsville 23, a unique and historically significant center-entrance car that ran most of its service life very close to Rockhill Furnace. The second car, shown below on the Silk Road trailer, is York Railways 162. This is a Brill-built curve-sider identical to car 163, already restored and operational at RTM, and the museum evidently intends to preserve car 162 as a house to depict post-service uses of electric car bodies.

With this transfer, the collections of both RTM and M&H stand at 22 cars on the PNAERC list. The M&H collection will continue to shrink, though; a few of the basket cases are intended for scrapping, while some other cars will likely go to new homes at other trolley museums.