Mission

Petaluma Trolley's mission is to preserve, restore and interpret to the public, and its own members, the rights of way, rolling stock, structures, arts and traditions of the Petaluma and Santa Rosa Electric Railroad, (P.& S.R.). The P.& S.R. was under wire from 1904 to 1947 and ran Diesels until 1977.

Petaluma Trolley's mission has been pursued through the establishment of a Living History Railway Museum. Using uniformed presenters, slide shows and an original P.& S.R. trolley car, the museum provides public exhibitions on parade, in fairs and at community and club meetings. These exhibitions and business district window displays, take folks back almost a century to be beginnings of the economic boom that built the City of Petaluma. This colorful period, in the early days of the Twentieth Century, provides a rich field of resources useable for public education.

It is the intention of Petaluma Trolley to reactivate three miles of the original Petaluma and Santa Rosa Electric Railroad rights-of-way and embankments as a heritage trolley service, using restored original 1904 P.& S.R. trolley cars. This three-mile route lays within the city