Behind-the-Scenes” tour will give visitors the opportunity to take a close-up look at some of the current restoration and maintenance projects including Connecticut Company Car #3001 (122 years old!) & Northern Ohio Traction & Light Co. #1500 (112 years old!). You will also get a behind the scenes tour of the Fire Truck Museum projects. Additionally, tour the grounds that are normally closed off to visitors with a museum guide. Take a trolley ride operated by period dressed motormen. Learn historic information about each car you ride and how the museum began. Inside the Visitor Center you will find more static trolley cars and artifacts, a theater showing a trolley themed movie and a gift shop to buy that ‘special’ souvenir. All activities and Fire Truck Museum entrance is included with your admission price.
Admission is $13 for adults, $12 for youth & $11 for children. Children under 2 are free & half off for Museum Members. Dads and Granddads receive FREE admission when accompanied by a paying adult or child. Tickets can be purchased when you arrive at the Musuem.
Night Photo Shoot- June 15th- SOLD OUT!
Join the CT Trolley Museum for our 2024 Night photo shoot. In an effort to add some variety to our night photo shoots, we’re continuing to have different photographers run the event. This year’s Connecticut Trolley Museum night photo shoot is being led by Tom Nanos of Lebanon, CT. Tom is a widely published author and photographer and has decades of experience photographing the railroading scene after dark, and has run the Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum’s night shoot in Willimantic for the past 20 years. The event will give photographers opportunities to photograph using ambient light through dusk, and as things get darker, we will augment the available lighting with LED constant lighting, as well as studio strobes. Photographers will only need to bring their camera, a cable release/remote shutter trigger and a tripod.
2024 Annual Meeting- June 26th
2024 Annual Meeting of the Connecticut Electric Railway Association, Incorporated (“CERA”) will be held at 6:30 pm, Wednesday, June 26, 2024 in the Auditorium of the Bertinuson Visitor Center, 58 North Road (CT Route 140), East Windsor, Connecticut 06088.
Learn the invaluable roles women played in shaping the future of rail industry. We will recognize their achievements and hope to inspire the next generation of female leaders in railroading. Additionally, take a trolley ride operated by period dressed motormen. Learn historic information about each car you ride and how the museum began. Inside the Visitor Center you will find more static trolley cars and artifacts, a theater showing a movie and a gift shop to buy that ‘special’ souvenir. On the same grounds is the Connecticut Fire Museum complete with antique fire trucks and apparatus.
Admission is $13.00 for adults, $12.00 for seniors 62 and up, $12.00 for youth ages 12-17 and $11.00 for ages 2-11. Connecticut Trolley Museum members and children under 2 are admitted free of charge. For more information, visit ct-trolley.org or call (860) 627-6540. Tickets can be purchased when you arrive at the Museum.
Museum Members receive half off admission on events & free admission on
non-event days
Birdies for Charity ends on June 23rd, make your donation soon! Help us meet our goal of $10,000.
Birdies for Charity is a giving platform where nonprofits simply solicit donations and receive a 15% bonus on every dollar raised thanks to Webster Bank! So make your donation go even further by donating to us through the Birdies for Charity program. There is no cost for the Trolley Museum to tap into the excitement of Connecticut’s only PGA TOUR event and have your donation help us receive extra funds! Our goal is to raise $10,000.00 through this program.
Take a trolley ride operated by period dressed motormen. Learn historic information about each car you ride and how the museum began. Inside the Visitor Center you will find more static trolley cars and artifacts, a theater showing a trolley themed movie and a gift shop to buy that ‘special’ souvenir. All activities and Fire Truck Museum entrance is included with your admission price.
