March 2011 Main Line vol3 No1 copy - the Seashore Trolley Museum

1, 2011 - January 30, 2012). Amber Tatnall, YCCC Library Director, identified the grant
opportunities and was the lead individual in writing the applications.
Please remember when sending donations for the library to note that it is for Library
Development – Fund 951.
Donations of Materials to the Library-
A number of items have come to the library recently. I will apologize up front because I
usually manage to miss someone.
With that said Barbara H. Gladney of Urbana, IL contributed several items including
editions of Seashoreʼs Historic Cars publication including a second edition (1955) of the
publication. A nice copy of Maine Two-Footers was included as well as an August 1956
issue of Railroad Magazine containing a large article (7 pages) describing “Trolley Town”
at Kennebunkport, ME by our own OR Cummings. There is also an interesting clipping
from the July 7, 1961 Christian Science Monitor showing the arrival of Sydney Tramways
1700 arriving by freighter at Boston. This is reproduced later in this edition of The Main
Line in the Seashore History section. I should note that Ms Gladney started up and ran
the first gift shop at Seashore in the 1950s. In fact in the Railroad Magazine article on
Trolley Town there is a picture of a young woman scraping paint at Seashore whom OR
Cummings describes as Ms Barbara Heard, a Radcliffe College girl - our present donor,
Barbara Heard Gladney. Thanks Barbara
for both then and now!
A longtime friend of Seashore and the
library, Jeff Mora of Washington, DC,
provided a booklet on the Hamilton
County Radial Railway published in
November 1968 and another book I had
not previously seen - The Trolley, Triumph
of Transport by William M. Moedinger and
published in 1972 (Second Printing) by
Applied Arts Publishers. A color photo by
Tom Ruddell of Seashoreʼs No. 38 graces
the front cover.