Thank you so much for posting .. My sister , brothers and I grew up on the museum property while it was in its infancy , thanks again for posting it brought a tear to my eye . Bill Bauer Jr .
Hi, Nice, good to see who the volunteers were and what they went through in order to save some of the various types of street cars, looking for and purchasing land. I belong to two other streeetcar museums and have heard tales of looking for a place to be, tales of obtaining the equipment, and most had to travel over the road to get to the museum (this one in Maine, the other outside of Fairfield Ca.) It would be good to eleborate on some things, a mention of Hardship towers, I heard of it, but most probably have no idea what that refers to. Anyway, Nice job, I enjoyed this very much. Thank you Karl J.
That was TOTALLY FANTASTIC !!!!!!! What you gentlemen went through to obtain and run the museum reminds me of what we had to go through starting up a fire explorer post in New York City. It has transformed to one of the emergency services groups. We had to obtain, transport, guard and repair the apparatus, obtain a site. I REALLY enjoyed the documentry, and yes I am a trolley fan. I belong to the Shore Line Electric Railway Museum in East Haven Ct. The museum has many cars and trolleys from New York City. Those members went through the same problems you guys went through. Thank God these early trolley fans had the will and resources to safeguard these cars and not send them to the scrapper. Now younger generations of people can experence what it felt like to ride a trolley. Happy Holidays To All
What a wonderful video of a trolley museum where I have spent a good deal of my adult life attending the bi-annual swap meets of just spending a quiet weekend at. I, like every other museum visitor, have always wondered how this trolley museum came about. Now we know. I have a donated a couple of SP items to the museum in the past. A P.E. crossing buck (still lettered with "Pacific Electric" from the old Colton Yard. And a wooden telephone booth (or box) from El Casco on the SP's Beaumont Hill line. I couldn't think of a better home for my items. Thanks for posting this wonderful video. I subscribed.
Very interesting thanks for sharing this. I'm a long time member of a relative electric railway museum, Western Railway Museum in Rio Vista Junction. I was not aware that your group looked this far north near Stockton. No surprise it was worthy of a look though fact your collection focus a lot of equipment in Southern California, Perris was definitely a much better choice!
Great Video and history. Thanks for looking after BCER 1225. It is now back home in Greater Vancouver totally rehabilitated and taking people on a nostalgic rail trip on parts of the old BCER Fraser Valley Line.
I was born in Artesia in '49 and lived in Bellflower until '76 . My mom told me she took me to visit my aunt in Santa Ana several times from 51-'53 from the P.E depot at Bellf blvd . Also my😢 dad would take us to Long Beach in '57-64 or so and we'd take P.E to L.A and walk to Clifton's cafeteria . The little Bellf. depot has been preserved . 👍
WOW! Phenomenal history. So happy we met you yesterday during the Thomas event and heard part of the story. Thank you for mentioning this video and how to find it. OERM needs it's own youtube channel and this video needs lots more exposure. Too many of us don't know anything about the history of this amazing museum that you and your other 13 partners built. Just amazing!
At 5:38, in a 1955 fantrip, the tracks in the median of Gage Ave (between Avalon Bl & Central Ave) jog around the remnants of a pumping station. However, another pumping station in that median, further east, near Central Ave, made of red brick & white trim, still stood (as I recall) till the early 60s, part of the huge red brick Goodyear Tire plant on Central Ave. Again, the tracks jogged around that small bldg.
This is such a great video, please post more
Thank you so much for posting .. My sister , brothers and I grew up on the museum property while it was in its infancy , thanks again for posting it brought a tear to my eye .
Bill Bauer Jr .
Hi,
Nice, good to see who the volunteers were and what they went through in order to save some of the various types of street cars, looking for and purchasing land. I belong to two other streeetcar museums and have heard tales of looking for a place to be, tales of obtaining the equipment, and most had to travel over the road to get to the museum (this one in Maine, the other outside of Fairfield Ca.)
It would be good to eleborate on some things, a mention of Hardship towers, I heard of it, but most probably have no idea what that refers to.
Anyway, Nice job, I enjoyed this very much.
Thank you
Karl J.
That was TOTALLY FANTASTIC !!!!!!! What you gentlemen went through to obtain and run the museum reminds me of what we had to go through starting up a fire explorer post in New York City. It has transformed to one of the emergency services groups. We had to obtain, transport, guard and repair the apparatus, obtain a site. I REALLY enjoyed the documentry, and yes I am a trolley fan. I belong to the Shore Line Electric Railway Museum in East Haven Ct. The museum has many cars and trolleys from New York City. Those members went through the same problems you guys went through. Thank God these early trolley fans had the will and resources to safeguard these cars and not send them to the scrapper. Now younger generations of people can experence what it felt like to ride a trolley. Happy Holidays To All
What a wonderful video of a trolley museum where I have spent a good deal of my adult life attending the bi-annual swap meets of just spending a quiet weekend at.
I, like every other museum visitor, have always wondered how this trolley museum came about. Now we know.
I have a donated a couple of SP items to the museum in the past. A P.E. crossing buck (still lettered with "Pacific Electric" from the old Colton Yard.
And a wooden telephone booth (or box) from El Casco on the SP's Beaumont Hill line.
I couldn't think of a better home for my items.
Thanks for posting this wonderful video.
I subscribed.
Very interesting thanks for sharing this. I'm a long time member of a relative electric railway museum, Western Railway Museum in Rio Vista Junction. I was not aware that your group looked this far north near Stockton. No surprise it was worthy of a look though fact your collection focus a lot of equipment in Southern California, Perris was definitely a much better choice!
Great Video and history. Thanks for looking after BCER 1225. It is now back home in Greater Vancouver totally rehabilitated and taking people on a nostalgic rail trip on parts of the old BCER Fraser Valley Line.
I was born in Artesia in '49 and lived in Bellflower until '76 . My mom told me she took me to visit my aunt in Santa Ana several times from 51-'53 from the P.E depot at Bellf blvd . Also my😢 dad would take us to Long Beach in '57-64 or so and we'd take P.E to L.A and walk to Clifton's cafeteria . The little Bellf. depot has been preserved . 👍
WOW! Phenomenal history. So happy we met you yesterday during the Thomas event and heard part of the story. Thank you for mentioning this video and how to find it. OERM needs it's own youtube channel and this video needs lots more exposure. Too many of us don't know anything about the history of this amazing museum that you and your other 13 partners built. Just amazing!
Excellent video!!!!!!!
Thanks so much for sharing those memories.
Nice video and big part of history. Hope to visit the soon name to be Southern California Railway museum
Wow, OERM opened on my birthday.
Very nicely done. Thanks, I really enjoyed it.
At 5:38, in a 1955 fantrip, the tracks in the median of Gage Ave (between Avalon Bl & Central Ave) jog around the remnants of a pumping station. However, another pumping station in that median, further east, near Central Ave, made of red brick & white trim, still stood (as I recall) till the early 60s, part of the huge red brick Goodyear Tire plant on Central Ave. Again, the tracks jogged around that small bldg.
At 1:25, it appears to be the 5 line (Eagle Rock-downtown LA-Santa Barbara Ave-Crenshaw Blvd-Inglewood-Hawthorne), but where on that line?
At 8:55 is mention of the LA Chapter of NRHS. What happened to that chapter? There's no NRHS chapter in S Calif now.
On the old MACK truck the fuel pump didn't work and the gas tank was unusable. hahahah, got a love it.
13:18 What happened to the sound?
Interesting YT deletion AI didn't like when i state how they got the 1919 MACK truck street legal.