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These are US Traction Museums and Historical Groups. They are broken up by State in Alphabetical order.

• US States A-C

• US States D-N

• US States O-Z

US States A-C
State	Icon	Museum Name	Comments
AZ		Old Pueblo Trolley	Out of Tucson. It operates on city streets to the University using a streetcar from Japan.
AZ		Phoenix Trolley	They operate a very short trolley line close to downtown Phoenix during the winter.
AK		Fort Smith Trolley Museum	Part of a historical center. It has a virtual museum on their web site
CA		Western Railway Museum	Also known as Rio Vista. This large museum is located near the SF Bay Area. They have everything from trolleys to steam locomotives
CA		San Francisco Cable Car Museum	This is a working museum, here the cable machinery is clearly seen that propel the cable cars up the famous hills.
CA		The Orange Empire Railway Museum	This a large museum of electric, diesel and steam in Perris CA near LA. They have everything from trolleys to steam locomotives
CA		San Jose Historic Trolleys	Their cars operate on San Jose's light rail line through downtown.
CA		Market Street Railway	The group that supports the historic streetcars in San Francisco that operate on the F-Market Line.
CA		California Trolley and Railroad Corporation	They operate the trolleys at the San Jose Historical Museum (Kelley Park). They are also restoring an SP Baldwin steamer.
CA		Travel Town	This transportation museum is located within Griffith Park in LA
CO		Fort Collins Municipal Railway	A group that runs original Birney cars on a portion of the original Fort Collins right-of-way.
CO		Denver Rail Heritage Society	Operators of the Platte River Trolley in Denver
CO		Pikes Peak Historical Street Railway Foundation	Groups working on bringing streetcars back to Colorado Springs.
CT		The Connecticut Trolley Museum	Out of East Windsor CT, between Hartford and Springfield. Also known as Warehouse Point.
CT		Shoreline Trolley Museum	This large traction/transit museum is located near New Haven, CT. The museum has also been called Branford.
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US States D-N
State	Icon	Museum Name	Comments
IA		Midwest Electric Railway Association	This museum operates trolleys for the Old Threshers Reunion every Labor Day weekend.
IL		Illinois Railway Museum	One of the largest traction/transit/railroad museums in the US. It is based out of Union, IL near Chicago.
IL		Shore Line Interurban Historical Society	This group promotes the history of transit in the Chicago area.
IL		Chicago ''L''.org	This site gives a lot of history behind the old "L"
IL		Fox River Trolley Museum	Museum west of Chicago has interurbans, trolley cars and "L" cars/
LA		New Orleans Riverfront Streetcars	This line was just re-gauged and is connected to the transit streetcar line via Canal St.
ME		The Seashore Trolley Museum	This it probably the largest traction museum in the US. They are located in Kennebunkport Maine
MA		The Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum	This is a newly formed museum group near Springfield, Mass. They operate a newly restored former Shelburne trolley combine #10.
MA		Lowell National Historical Park	This living museum includes replica streetcars in operation.
MN		Minnesota Transportation Museum Inc.	They operate Como-Harriet Streetcar Line as well as a steam RR and a steamboat. The streetcar line links Lake Calhoun with Lake Harriet, using former Twin Cities equipment.
MO		Museum of Transportation	This St. Louis Museum operates streetcars along with a huge assortment of Railroad equipment.
MD		Baltimore Streetcar Museum	Baltimore's former transit operator saved virtually one of every car class that they ever operated, leaving this museum with a great interpretation of Baltimore's transit history.
MD		National Capital Trolley Museum	The streetcar museum near Washington DC in Wheaton Maryland
NY		The Electric Railroaders Association, Inc.	This is a nationwide group, but focuses mainly on NY Traction.
NY		New York City Model Transit Association	A group that models NY's subways
NY		The Trolley Museum of New York	Located in Kingston along the Hudson River. They are planning to add overhead to their line.
NY		New York Transit Museum	If you love historic subway cars, this is the place to go. It's even in a former Subway Station in Brooklyn.
NC		Charlotte Trolley Museum	They own 4 trolley cars, one operates on trackage in Charlotte
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US States O-Z
State	Icon	Museum Name	Comments
OH		Northern Ohio Railway Museum	This museum is building a new car barn to help house their collection. They own mostly traction equipment, from the Ohio area.
OR		Astoria Downtown Trolley	Schedule for the Riverfront trolley in Astoria, OR. They use a San Antonio trolley # 300.
OR		Oregon Electric Railway Historical Society	Operators of the Willamette Shore Trolley, and the Oregon Electric Railway Museum
OR		Willamette Shore Trolley	Tourist trolley line between Lake Oswego and Portland
OR		Oregon Electric Railway Museum	The new museum location is under development at Brooks, 12 miles north of Salem.
PA		Electric City Trolley Museum	Located in Scranton next to the NPS Steamtown site.
PA		Pennsylvania Trolley Museum	This large group is located near the Steel City of Pittsburgh feature PA Broad Gauge traction equipment.
PA		Rockhill Trolley Museum	This museum is located next to the famous East Broad Top Railroad.
PA		East Penn Traction Club	This is a group that does trolley modeling.
TN		Memphis - The Trolley	This vintage line uses mostly Portugal's Brill cars which runs on the Mid-America Mall in downtown Memphis.
TX		El Paso Streetcar	This group is trying to bring back streetcars to El Paso.
TX		McKinney Avenue Transit Authority	Operates restored streetcars along original streetcar tracks on Dallas's McKinney Ave.
WA		Issaquah Valley Trolley	This is a new trolley ride just outside of Seattle.
WA		The Yakima Valley Trolley	This group will be operating trolleys again in Yakima.
WI		East Troy Electric	A former Interurban operation that has been preserved and still carries freight as well as being a museum!
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