After two years of renovation, a Pittsburgh trolley celebrating the black & gold has been restored to its original beauty and will be rolled out for everyone to see.
The Terrible Trolley will be in operation again at the PA Trolley Museum beginning Tuesday, August 12.
If you miss the big re-debut, the museum tells KDKA Radio, “we plan on running it a lot next week during Washington County Fair, which runs through August 16.”
The museum acquired the Terrible Trolley from a private collector in Ohio in June 2023.
It was built in 1949 to run from Pittsburgh to Washington and Pittsburgh to Charleroi.
It was then acquired by the Port Authority, now Pittsburgh Regional Transit.
After the Steelers won their fourth Super Bowl, a nine-year-old girl wrote then Pittsburgh Mayor Richard Caliguiri, asking him to celebrate the championship by painting a trolley black and gold.
He responded and said he would pass it along to Port Authority. A few weeks later, “The Terrible Trolley” was born.
It operated in black and gold for six years, was repainted and then retired in 1988.
But it was then repaired by Port Authority and was in operation another 10 years before it was finally retired in 1998.
Now, just in time for a new Steelers season, visitors to the Trolley Museum can enjoy the restored celebration of the black and gold.