Reply to "Trains, Trolleys, and Diners: The real story"

TomlinsonRunRROGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBER

Rule292/Rob, thanks for the tip about the Birney car. It wasn't on my old list -- maybe because it wasn't pretending to be a diner? The all-knowing, all-seeing interweb has a picture of it when it was The Trolley Stop on Rt. 73 in Skippack, PA. It's an undisguised trolley. The blog post says it was painted in the colors of the Reading Transit System.

Today it is part of the Hotel Fiesole in Skippack and sporting a new look:

Hotel Fiesole with Birney Restaurant

Interior of the Trolley

A very toney looking hotel has some how successfully grafted a Birney trolley onto its front and made the whole thing look classy and oh so European.

The Ephrata restaurant where you ate is hiding a circa 1950 Silk City-manufactured diner. What a great postcard!

Thanks for a most interesting pointer to a nicely restored and functional bit of transportation history.

Tomlinson Run Railroad

8/17/1612:43 AM

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