Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum
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Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum is a museum in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 136 m. Pocumtuck Mountain stands 561 m to the north-northwest, 4.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Bridge of Flowers, a attraction 0.2 miles away. Route 112 Scenic Byway passes 0.8 miles off.
The story
The Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum is a small railroad museum in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, United States. The museum (SFTM) is dedicated to preserving and operating car number 10 of the former Shelburne Falls and Colrain Street Railway. This is a combination passenger-baggage trolley car built by the Wason Manufacturing Company of Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1896 and is the last known trolley car from the Shelburne Falls & Colrain Street Railway. In 1992, Marshall Johnson donated car number 10 (which his father had bought and saved when the Shelburne Falls & Colrain Street Railway shut down, decades earlier) to a small group of people who restored the car back to working order. The museum also has a small assortment of equipment that is not related to the Shelburne Falls & Colrain Street Railway, including an ex-Central Vermont caboose, a Central Vermont handcar, two MBTA PCC cars, and other railroad and trolley equipment. The Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum is located in the old Buckland Freight yard.
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Wikidata Q7493322, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
How to reach it
- 0.8 mi off the Route 112 Scenic Byway
- 0.5 mi off the Mohawk Trail - MA, National
- 11.8 mi off the Connecticut River Byway, National
- 17.6 mi off the Molly Stark Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Salmon Falls Potholes · 1 mi
- view to west · 2 mi
- Bissell Bridge Falls · 7 mi
- Overlook · 10 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Veterans Memorial Field: 0.3 mi
- Ball Park: 2.5 mi
- Field Field: 5.7 mi
- Belding Memorial Park: 5.8 mi
- Hillside Park: 6.7 mi
- Goodnow Hill: 0.8 mi
- West Mountain: 1.0 mi
- Massamet Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Johnson Hill: 1.5 mi
- Massaemett Mountain: 1.8 mi
- Bee Hive Kiln: 7.6 mi
- Poet's Seat Tower: 7.8 mi
- Cellarhole: 8.1 mi
- Cellarhole: 8.2 mi
- Gardner Homestead Cellarhole: 9.2 mi
- Buckland Historical Museum: 2.7 mi
- Memorial Hall Museum: 8.0 mi
- Great Falls Discovery Center: 9.4 mi
- Kemp-McCarthy Memorial Museum: 10.4 mi
- Browning Bench Agricultural Museum: 10.4 mi
- Greenfield Money Tree: 5.9 mi
- AISC Steel Sculpture: 17.9 mi
- Jack Leaman: 17.9 mi
- Julius Erving: 17.9 mi
- John Calipari: 17.9 mi
- Just Roots Community Garden: 7.1 mi
- North Garden: 16.7 mi
- South Garden: 16.8 mi
- Hatfield Community Garden: 17.4 mi
- Wendell Community Garden: 17.9 mi
- Roaring Falls: 13.5 mi
- Pigpen Ledges: 13.6 mi
- Introductory Buttress: 14.1 mi
- Rose Ledge Upper Tier: 14.2 mi
- Main Wall: 14.2 mi
- Bridge of Flowers: 0.2 mi
- hole in wall: 1.8 mi
- rock scramble: 2.0 mi
- rock overhang: 2.0 mi
- Wolves Den: 2.0 mi
- Tannery Falls: 13.5 mi
- Twin Cascade: 14.4 mi
- Hobo Falls: 16.0 mi
- Pulpit Falls: 19.2 mi
- Lower Peck's Falls: 20.3 mi
- Ashfield Town Beach: 5.7 mi
- Puffers Pond North Beach: 16.9 mi
- Puffers Pond South Beach: 17.1 mi
- David Musante Beach: 17.2 mi
- The Ledges: 17.6 mi
- Day Use Area: 10.9 mi
- Mt Mills West Picnic Area: 20.1 mi
- Green River Covered Bridge: 12.6 mi
- Creamery Covered Bridge: 18.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.8 miles of Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pocumtuck Mountain | NNW 334° | 561 m | 4.0 mi |
| Peter Hill | SW 220° | 557 m | 6.3 mi |
| Burnt Hill | NW 326° | 547 m | 5.8 mi |
| Bug Hill | SW 221° | 535 m | 7.1 mi |
| Seventy Six Hill | SSW 206° | 530 m | 7.6 mi |
| Stone Mountain | NNW 343° | 511 m | 6.3 mi |
| Hog Mountain | W 265° | 486 m | 4.8 mi |
| Massamet Mountain | ENE 70° | 485 m | 1.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:55 | 18:26 | 19:03 |
| June solstice | 05:14 | 19:50 | 20:33 |
| September equinox | 06:39 | 18:13 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 15:35 | 16:21 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 19 | 21 | 29 | 41 | 51 | 60 | 64 | 63 | 57 | 45 | 36 | 26 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — E Hawley, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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Day trips start here
- Charlemont · 3 mi
- Erving · 3 mi
- Montague · 3 mi
- Shelburne · 3 mi
- Gill · 7 mi
- Greenfield · 7 mi
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