As part of METRO Rail’s grand opening festivities, the Phoenix Trolley Museum displayed historic Car #116 in downtown Phoenix, at the Convention Center, and next to Collier Center, on Third Street.
Car #116 sits at Collier Center, 27 December 2008
Car #116 at Phoenix Civic Plaza
Our thanks to Western Towing for making the display possible. They made the impossible look easy.
Western Towing moves Car #116 -- 3:30am
Printable flyer (click)
On Saturday, December 27, 2008, we will be displaying Car #116 on Third Street between Washington and Jefferson in downtown Phoenix, a few feet from where it historically operated.
Come visit us at Valley Metro’s light rail opening party and step back in time as we step forward into the future. 9am to 5pm in Downtown Phoenix. Ride the new light rail system and we will see you there!
Full-Color Special Souvenir shirts will be available — Don’t miss out!
The Bashas‘ Shop and Give program is again underway. Please consider supporting the Museum in this way by registering your Thank You card at a check out of the one of the stores. This is something that needs be done every year; but once done, you are good from September to March.
In the 2007 season, the Museum received about $150.00, and that was with just a few members participating. This is an easy way to help us — We hope you will make this an even bigger success this year.
Directions: Link your Bashas’ “Thank You” card at a store check-out by telling the cashier that you want to link your card to The Phoenix Trolley Museum (that’s the name under which the museum is registered). You will also need to give our group ID number, which is 24713. You only need to do this once — 1% of all your purchases from then until March will go to the museum.
I would like to once again suggest that members also sign up for a VISA card from National City in the E-Scrip program.
Whenever you use this card, for any kind of purchase or service, 5% (on purchases from $1.00 to $2,000) of the cost benefits the museum. (1% of purchases from $2,000 to $40,000 and 2% of purchases of more that $40,000). In two months last year one person contributed $75.00 to the museum and this year the contribution so far is $125.00.
You can apply for the card–which is a regular VISA card–using only one of the following methods:
The museum is registered as Phoenix Trolley Museum and the Group ID# is 500016445.
Phoenix Trolley Hats! With an Arizona Street Railway Museum emblem.
For mail order delivery, send check or money order to: Ron Nadarski,10012 E. Elmwood Ct., Sun Lakes, AZ 85248 (be sure to add shipping as above).
Get yours today!
The ASRM patch on the hats
Generations before the first track of Phoenix’s new light-rail system was laid, an electric-ran system carried Phoenix residents throughout the city. It ran for six decades, from 1887 to 1948…
“During the time of the original streetcar, it went everywhere worth going,” said Ernie Workman, president of the Phoenix Trolley Museum.
Officials at the museum, as well as a former streetcar driver, hope the opening of a new light-rail system on Dec. 27 will spark interest in the old trolley system by reminding locals that a public rail system once flourished in Phoenix…
Placing new Trucks (wheelsets) under #116, August 2008:
Jacking the car
On the pneumatic jack
Car mounted on trucks
Jana Bommersbach, in the May 2008 Phoenix Magazine, visited the Phoenix Trolley Museum and here is what she wrote:
I’m sitting on a brown leather bench seat, in front of large wood-casement windows in Trolley Car 116, and it isn’t hard to imagine Old Phoenix…
Most of Phoenix doesn’t even know this town had a thriving trolley system for 61 glorious years – from 1887 to 1948. Think about that. When this town still had nothing but dirt streets and adobe buildings, it had a mass transit system for the few folks who lived here. As the city grew, so did the lines, allowing the trolley to boast: “It comes every 10 minutes and goes everywhere worth going.”