Reviews of The Shore Line Trolley Museum (Museum)

Lucy Goins

We had a wonderful time here! We ended up taking a bus in from new haven, and the stop is so close. It provides an extra bit of convenience for our visit. The staff was kind, funny, and helpful. Tina in the gift shop made sure we had clear directions to the bus stop to get back, too. Kevin was our motorman, and he gave us all the information about what we were seeing. We went through a nature preserve, an old granite mine operation, and lots of history. We really enjoyed the ability to tour the car barns, too. They even have a subway car that visited the towers on 9/11. A very emotional and touching tribute. Such stories and information! Perfect for any railfan, history buff, wildlife enthusiast....very happy that we went !

Raphael Rivas

Very good Museum and I enjoyed my time on the trolleys it gives me an excuse to go back there more often to ride the various types of trolleys that they operate. I just wish it was closer to my house so I can have more time there more than just a couple of hours because of the length of time it takes to get there To the museum.

Acapsule Hobby

Great place to see and ride historic trolleys. The trolley ride is quiet short, but you can ride it all day if you like. Don't miss the barn where they keep the collection of trolleys and other rolling stock.

Kathy Brundidge

I had more fun than I thought I would. The trolley museum was quite interesting. Just wear flat shoes once you get off the trolley, you'll be doing some walking.

Christopher Ferraiolo

Great annual event,maybe some better traffic control. That street is an accident waiting to happen

Fredric Brownstein

Takes back to living in Philadelphia!!

Jessica Thompson

Great haunted house for Halloween. It was amazing...

John Orr

Learning about the history of trolleys around New Haven.

New Milford RAIL FAN

A nice railway museum with some nice trolleys busses and subway cars, I even found a trolley car that my grandfather may have driven in new york city.

Kendall Alexander

Who knew that I would enjoy a trolley museum so much?! It was very interesting and educational!

Nick Chieppo

awesome i loved it the haunted isle make sure u wear shoes

Trazy B

Cute day trip for the kids, A part of history.

Brenda Buckley

Went for a field trip with 1st graders to pick a pumpkin and go for a trolley ride. The kids loved it! They are great with the kids and even give info all about the trolleys and their history.

Richard Miranda

Had a great time with my grandkids everyone there was very friendly and helpful

daniel Britschock

I went here a couple years ago it was fun but the trolley ride is very short. i recommend the one in Windsor CT The trolley ride is about 25 minutes and has a lot more history than here. But if you don't feel like traveling To there than this is the place for you.

Mendim Zhuta

We hosted my Son's 3rd birthday party here and it was a success. All the Kids loved it. The party planner/helper was extremely knowledgeable and helpful overall. She was available to answer any questions we had pretty much whenever we had them. I would highly recommend it to any train loving kids or fans of Daniel Tiger's Trolley

Susan Parente

A must do! Real trolleys riding the line through beautiful wetlands!

Jorge Rodriguez

Cool place. You get to ride on the trolley and they have fun activities.

Roger Senserrich

Great museum with tons of unique, beautiful and really well maintained equipment. The 2 mile excursion track is delightful. Great family experience.

iEateggs Everymorning

If you like trolleys, come here. If not, don't. I don't care.

Jodi-Ann Superstar Mudfish

Wonderful staff. I loved the train ride and the narrative that came with it. Didnt know so much about trains until i went here.

Ralph Filek

Had a great time.

Christiana Alkire

I love the Trolley museum, it's quiet knowledgeable staff, beautiful trolleys from various periods of history including 9/11. Family friendly and environmentally safe, on a bird sanctuary. Wonderful for a family outing.

Nathaniel Buckholz

A favorite place of mine when I was a kid, it was great to go back with my nephew and be reminded that the Trolley Museum is both fun and highly informative. The staff is clearly passionate about what they do. A gem.

Eden Weiss

Fun place with HISTORY! Great for kids and museum inside is cool.

Tom Grimes

What a bust run down hardly any lights

Rowan de la Barre

This place offers great scenic rides In beautiful restored historic trolley cars and has a lot of educational and informational exhibits.

Walter Kawecki

Great place for an educational and interesting day trip. Plan for 2 hours.

Tilsia Rosado

Awesome place to take the kids or take a ride on a trolley. The staff are knowledgeable and very friendly. If you go during the Christmas season you can visit with Santa.

M. Showers

Fascinating journey back in time of the street car. Great family place.

Robert Ryan

The oldest continueosly operated surburban trolley line in the country. Dedicated volunteers

Irishamrocker Headrick

awesome just awesome

Gumdrop Swap

Went with the kids for Easter Bunny ride. Get the Groupon when available.

Michael Hannon

This museum is just amazing! The conductors are incredibly educated and willing to answer any questions. The trolley ride is very beautiful and the stop at the yard is just incredible. It was a so eerie when given a tour for the subway car that survived 9/11.

Andrew Lyons

Great fun for adults and kids. One ticket lets you ride trolleys all day. two trolleys run in sequence with a little bit of delay between them or you can stay on one all day. Drivers were fun and knowledgeable and good with kids. The additional trolleys in the sheds were a lot of fun to look at with a good variety. my favorite part is the seats that change direction when you get to the end of the line. Show it to the kids they'll enjoy helping out. They also get to ring the trolley bell with the foot pedal which was fun.

Rebecca Fasula

I love bringing my son here for almost every holiday!

Snorkmaiden

Fun trolley ride and interesting museum.

Lee Carlson

A favorite spot to see transportation history.

Jenni Campis

Went to the haunted isle with my older children...It wasn't really scary and they have no signs of telling you which way to go. Some of them had multiple doors and made it confusing... Also the dark areas were extremely difficult to get through.

Bill Dobkins

Great place to experience historic transportation in a very scenic environment.

Jerry Sats

Great place to bring the family

Lisa Igneri-hermann

Fun! Kids loved it.

Erika Ennejjar

Went on a field trip with a pre k class. Not the best experience for kids, too much history and talking about things they don't know. The ride they loved and the conductor was awesome. Just wouldn't recommend for a class trip

Elissa Boss

My family had a positive experience at the pumpkin patch trolley ride, in respect to the cost. We were a bit disappointed that there weren't many engaging activities for kids at the trolley yard "pumpkin patch," but my 3 year old had fun, so it was worth it. As a preschooler who still loves the novelty of riding on trains and the like, she was enthusiastic about the experience from start to finish. However, I'm not sure we had a dynamic enough experience that would motivate me to go again. From an adult perspective, riding on the trolley offered a glimpse into the history of street cars, as well as a pleasant ride through local wetlands. The trolley conductors were warm and eager to relay their knowledge about both local train car history and that of the specific trolley we were on.

Lonnie Brintley

Small, off the beaten path, doing their best to preserve a form of transportation.

juan bastias

Es el museo de trolley muy lindo bien cuidado e interesante

Sissy Sis

Halloween isle. The best!! They do a great job!!#

Bobby Arel

Dangerous haunted attraction, between the sex offenders and other volunteers of criminial history and drug abuse working it, to the downright unpleasant experience of BOO and irritating screams. No good set designs, just a barely carved out path in the woods with real life scary people who are actually intimidating because they're freakin criminals.....

Jerome Rumley

It was an great experience with the family. Specially great for all learning ages. May be a littel hot as they don't have a.c. except for mother nature's wind but thats during the summer.

Yumac L

Nice little museum my kids and I visited at least twice a year

A wolf

awesome place to go if you are a train lover. it is also cool to see the marsh.

John Piazza

Nice trip into history

Lorain Simister

It's my home away from home!

Christopher Soto

Awesome place to visit and spend a day off with the family.

Matthew Vergano

The trolleys are amazing.

Paul Lourd

This is an amazing little museum. The fact that they still have over a mile of working trolley line is so cool. You look at some exhibits inside, then get on the trolley for a ride through the salt marsh. Then a stop midway at the train barns to see other trolleys. Really fun .

Harry Roscoe

Fun time for the whole family

Bill Patchell

Very interesting hidden from view

eugene gallagher

We loved this place. Very nostalgic and cool

Kevin Holt

Very good

David Koyf

My son rode NYC subway car, great museum

Kathryn Hashem

A little gem for any transportation enthusiast! The very knowledgeable staff is amazing and the trolley rode is top notch.

Stephanie Berk

Such a great place, my boys love it.

Sara Blagg

Very neat place. The trolley rode was very fun, and you learn a lot from the conductor. You also get a tour of the Street Car Garage which has many different trolleys and even a car from the World Trade Center! I recommend you check it out!

Michelle Lemay

Great job cleaning up from the downed lines

Kara Rapp

We were able to enjoy this experience for half off ticket prices, which felt like the right amount to spend for the experience - paying full price would have seemed too high. The conductor was knowledgeable and the tickets included a ride in a trolley on the mile and a half of remaining track, as well as a stop at the yard to see their collection of historic cars/trolleys.

M

Had a nice time very family friendly!! Great history lesson for the kids. Nice to feel like you stepped back in time for awhile. Beautiful ride on the train kids loved it. Nice scenery. Wish it was a bit longer but that's as far the tracks went.

Doug Johnson

We had a great time. The people are warm and friendly. They really care about everything.

Melissa D.

We had a great last adventure before school starts!! We got to ride the Trolleys and walk around the trolley yard. Absolutely amazing experience getting to ride in a piece of history as well as taking a walk-through history within the trolley yard. Great family day at a low cost!

Theodore Greenberg

Its a nice place

Phyllis Martino

A great way to kill two hours or so. I could ride the trolley back and forth all day. Cute museum and gift shop. Great staff!

Angel Rodriguez

Very awesome great staff my wife lost her pocket book and they were so great helping us thk you guys

J. Clemens

A surprisingly large collection of trollies well maintained including one from ground zero. Also a nice trail and hike along the bird estuary.

Geoffrey Jacobs

Great place for both adults and kids. There's a museum, trolley ride, and trolley barn tour.

Rashesh Desai

Small museum, but interesting, went there for the holidays. The trolley ride could be longer. It was only 30 sec ride. Cookies and hot coco is nice. Not too hot.

Anthony Feliciano

I took my 5 month old to take photographs with Santa and we rode the mid-evening trolley and it was gorgeous. Lots of families

Giovanna Marshall

Its a small cute museum to enjoy an afternoon with your kids.

Latanya Robbins

Excellent place for people with little ones.

Amanda Andrew

We had fun！

Kevin Feeney

Ride the historic trolleys to the beach

Amanda Taillon

Fun place.. Went for Halloween

Anthony Purcell

A hidden treasure in the neck of the woods

Curt Zina

Not a lot to see here, was kind of disappointing to only show off about 10-12 cars. This is a museum after all. Would have like to see more. But still kind of interesting

Dorothy Barber

It was great. Will do it again

Louise Taft

Always fun trolley ride into the past.

Christine Youn

My kids wasn't that much impressed but definitely it was good place for the kids. staffs were very nice, too

George Yasenchock

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Adam Elmquist

Excellent museum great place to visit

bonnie cook

Awesome place for a rainy day. Great conductors!

Michael Clay

Historical trolley car ride. Was relaxing on a not too hot summer day. A fun experience for lovers of transportation.

Maria Lingad

Informative

Paxton Berardy

Great ride though coastal marshes near New Haven

Eric Doran

I was having a good time until a Security guy excused me of having a knife. I was grabbed by the guy, treated as if I was 100% guilty, patted down, embarrassed in front of my friends, many other people and video surveillance afterwards by the Security guy that accused me. I am looking into the name of the Security company and filing a complaint and civil suit for how this issue was handled. I emailed the company for more information.

Justin Pileggi

Easter Bunny visit was great! Good local family fun!

Emil Luk

One of the most unique museums you can visit. A wide collection of both restored and operable railroad , subway cars , buses and trolleys. They have special events and special days you can actually operate some of the rolling stock they have down a 2 mile line, which is a unique experience that leaves a smile on your face. The rolling stock they have is from all over the country and with some noteworthy additions from the NY Subway system that you can actually operate on certain days. Well worth a visit!

Rolando Crisostomo

My little girl loves it. Been there twice. Always nice

Antonia Perez

Kids love this place

glenda saavedra

Just fun!

Jill E.

Very nice.

Jessica Gomez

Delicious hot chocolate and the people that works there is bery friendly, its a $10 access to the rides, my kyds love it.

David Rand

Great destination for train enthusiasts (like our 2 yo twins). The main museum is small and not really anything to write home about, but their train yard next door is awesome, lots of cool old train cars you can go inside and check out.

Amanda Aliberti

Go early long lines

Christine Donovan

Really loved our visit here! We went for the Easter Bunny Trolley ride and my 2 year old loved it! Really cool to see all of the old trolleys and the ride was short and sweet

Peter Lindsley

Great place to view and ride historic trolleys.

Tom Nicklis

Fun experience. Interesting information. Kids loved it.

Kenneth Rosen

Great!

Katrina McDaniel

Great place for little kids

Malia Asthappan

My kids and I thoroughly enjoyed our trolley trip and visit to the museum. The driver was so knowledgeable and friendly!

radine riedesel

Loved it. Even had a trolley ride. If you are in the area, stop in.

Chris Jack

It was pretty cool to see history in present day.

Jeff Thain

Shoreline is the best. Great time, great people!

blitzkrieg0293

Awesome I love it

Moises Betancourt

Really good

mark fioravanti

did night photographs here

Lisa F

Very cute

Ivan Arevalo

Excelente lugar,regresar en el tiempo

AmyAndJoe LaMacchia

Really good place for all ages, lots of fun especially the Easter events.

Karl Brodka

I've been coming here since I was a kid. Now that I have a child of my own I look forward to enjoying the magic of the museum and trolly rides all over again.

Harry D

Very interesting, I dont think enough people know about this place and that 1 of 2 of the only trains not crushed under the 911 September attack is here. Plus the background is very interesting thanks to the narrator/Driver.

Petra

Die Parade war sehr schön, alles wurde vorgeführt und erklärt. Die Fahrt war auch intressant.

JoeyMcGovs

Awesome haunted attraction!! Very very cool, I had a blast!

Stacey Bonet

We became members

Dionne Brown

Wasn't very organized... But the trolley ride was fun. Very nice trolley☺

Erin Scheibel

I love the Shoreline Trolley Museum. It's the best place to go if you have a toddler or preschooler around Halloween. They have the pumpkin painting, the trolley ride. My kids loved it!

Alan Wang

Kinda "meh"...

William Forbes

Had a good time

RICH DISCOVERIES

Did the pumpkin patch. Had a lot of fun. It's a short ride but it's a lot of fun. Deffinitly something different to do with the family

Chris Arrandale

Cute little museum with dedicated volunteers to share their wealth of knowledge about trolleys.

Josh McLinton

Very relaxing trip, staff were engaged and informative. If you're a fan of history and want to experience a slice of the past, this is for you.

Barry Zuckerman

As a volunteer I love running the cars and giving tours. I can't wait to see more happy faces when the museum opens for the season in the spring.

Robert Stephens

Fun for the kids and a great history lesson on trolleys

sandra villanueva

I won't do again more for class trips

Vincent Berkun

The trolley museum is fun, unique and there's nothing like it anywhere in the world.

Lauren Ostrofsky

Low key, affordable, fun for all ages with a dash of history! My family and I enjoyed our ride, meeting Santa and see the decorated historical trolleys.

David B

We took our three kids here around Christmas for the train ride to visit Santa. For ten dollars each, the value and experience was fantastic. The trolley itself was very cool and was like stepping back in time, and they had fun activities for the kids, plus cookies and cocoa. Highly recommended.

Morgan Johns

Easter Bunny was great. Kids had a blast on the trolley

Zeacorzeppelin10

So much history in one spot. They have a trolley that gave the Brooklyn Dodgers their name. They have NYC subway trains. They have trolleys older than the line they ride on. This place is overflowing with history and fun for the whole family. Get there now.

James Davis

I really enjoyed myself, I am looking forward to seeing it again soon, it's a nice place to visit.

Donna Florenzano

We had the very best time at the haunted trolly! So much fun, we did it a few times! Really incredible job, thank you so much.

Rick Morgan

It's okay

Katie Iassogna

Best place to go to

Jean Bulger

Loved the ride and the tour...has pressed penny machine

grey brito

I love it! The girls was so happy there!

x x

Haunted Isle was the best attraction of October!

Melissa Vernola

Attended the Haunted Isle for Halloween. This was pretty scary for a trolley museum. I would definitely recommend. Get there early so you can be in the first wave of visitors.

John Cubells

Unique look into Our not so distant past