2010 Trolley Pageant - Updated

This year's Trolley Pageant was another great success, and featured the débuts of four of our recent acquisitions from Trolleyville: CA&E cars 319, 409, and 460, and the Vera Cruz open car #19.

We'll be adding more pictures as we go along. Here are two submitted by Randy and Betty Anderson:

For the pageant, we had a three-car train of CA&E steel cars. We ran the three wood cars together on the main line, but split them up for the pageant. Frank ran the two blue cars, and I had the 319.





Some taken by Frank:

At left, it could be Batavia Junction but it's actually 50th Avenue during the morning. At right, six cars line up very nearly in order of construction. What a sight!





Left, Julie Johnson operates the three-car steel train on the car line to queue up for the pageant. Right, the very first public run for our (new) three-car wood train loads at the station while in the far right distance, the three-car steel train rounds Barn 2 and crosses the east switch.



And several submitted by Andrew Cornillie:


The three wood cars waiting on Schmidt siding before the pageant.

Interior of the 319

And the 409 and 431 at 50th.









And here is the three-car steel train: 409, 431, and 460, being operated by Julie Johnson. You have to see it in person. It is stunning.

And the Vera Cruz open car!

Andy Sunderland, motorman.