Electric City Trolley Museum

The organization began in the 1960s as the Metropolitan Philadelphia Railway Association, later relocating to Winslow Township, New Jersey, before moving to a 4.5‑acre site in Jobstown, New Jersey. After a 1973 municipal ordinance barred trolley operation, the group renamed itself the Buckingham Valley Trolley Association in 1978 and ran cars on a segment of today’s New Hope Railroad. In 1982 the operation shifted to Philadelphia’s Penns Landing, using the Belt Line Railroad, but development pressures forced multiple moves and led to vandalism at an outdoor Laurel Street site; the museum left Penns Landing in 1996 and settled in Scranton. The Electric City Trolley Museum was formally established in 1999 under the ownership of the Electric City Trolley Museum Association. A 2006 $2 million extension added a 2,000‑foot track and a nine‑car restoration barn, and in September 2017 the museum acquired a large model‑train diorama of Scranton.