[Thursday] Date change for the Field Trip to the Shoreline Trolley Museum in East Haven, CT

[Craig Moody]

Will that put the Board Meeting back to Wednesday?

Craig


On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 1:07 PM Ernie via Thursday <thursday at newsm.org>
wrote:

> All,
> Due to a doctor appointment that I can not miss I have had to move the
> field trip to the Shore Line Trolley Museum ahead 1 week to Wednesday
> October 13th.
> Hopefully that will still work for those of you that already signed up.
> If not just let me know.
> If the previous date/s didn't work for you and the new one does (Wed Oct
> 13th) work for you just let me know as we still have room for more of you
> to go.
> Original info is below.
> Thanks
> Ernie Darrow
>
> On Wednesday, July 14, 2021, 04:39:47 PM EDT, Ernie <ernie176 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> All,
>
> As some of you are aware I/we are planning a Museum volunteer field trip
> to the Shoreline Trolley Museum in East Haven, CT.
> www.shorelinetrolley.org
>
> Both Dennis Ingalls and I are 2021 qualified trolley operators at
> Shoreline and will be operating the trolleys.
>
> Depending on how many of us go it can be really cheap or maybe not quite
> so cheap.  Really cheap is 10 bucks or less.
>
> Each trolley will hold about 30 passengers.  So we should have space for
> "significant others" and or a friend or 2 depending on the number of
> volunteers signing up.
>
> I have requested 2 trolley cars for 2 three mile round trips each car.
> If the number of signups is less than 20 it will most likely be 2 different
> trolleys 1 trip each.  (total 2 trips)  However we don't need 60 signups to
> have 2 cars out at the same time.
>
> Dennis and I will also give a guided tour/s of the museums other trolleys
> and equipment of which there are around 100.
>
> A small selection of the museums cars.
> http://shorelinetrolley.org/collection/
>
> We will be scheduling this for 10:30 arrival in East Haven with a trolley
> departure time of 11:00  That gives us 2 to 3 hours with the trolleys.
>
> I think the easiest is for us to car pool in small groups to Shorelline
> trolley.  Why would Ken A, Ken K and Craig M want to go east to go west for
> 3 examples.
>
> Google says it is 111 miles 1 hr 57 min from our Museum in East Greenwich
> to Shoreline Trolley at 17 River St in East Haven, CT.
>
> Let me know and save the date/s which tentatively are Wed Oct 6th or
> Monday Oct 11th.  I guess it will be a majority rules type of thing on
> which date we choose.  This is a rain or shine event as all the trolleys
> are "closed cars".
>
> It would be great if we can finalize this in the next couple of weeks.
>
> As of right now CT Covid rules still require masks on public
> transportation so plan ahead for a mask.
>
> Let me know
> Ernie Darrow
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