Trolley No. 130
Dated about 1865
"Horsecar No. 55 of Rochester City & Brighton R.R.
Drawn by one horse, it carred 20-30 people, and met steam trains at Pittsburg depot and made connections from Rochester to Irondequoit Bay. Built 1867 by the John Stephenson Co., of N.Y.C., it is the only existing 'bobtail' in the U.S. On loan by the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences to the Magee Transporation Museum, Bloomburg, Pa., Interstate 80, Exit 34."
Dated about 1960
Llewellyn Bros., Inc., 21-23 Franklin St., Wilkes-Barre, PA
No number
Note: the Magee Museum closed in 1972. The whereabouts of this horsecar is not known.
This is the kind of electric trolley that was used in Monroe County in the 1890s.
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