A Connecticut trolley museum has donated a 1913 interurban trolley car to the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum in Chartiers, where there are plans for its restoration and display.

"It ran in Fairmont, W.Va., and is in remarkable condition," said Scott Becker, the museum's executive director, who was in Connecticut last week to prepare to transport the car to Chartiers. "It's amazing to see something this old that's all here."

Monongehela-West Penn trolley car No. 250 represents the first interurban car the museum owns that was not converted sometime in its history to another use. It was in operation for 43 years. The museum owns one interurban car that was transformed into a tavern, the Dew Drop Inn, and another that was used as a house. It also owns a 54-ton electric interurban locomotive.

Car 250, originally used by the Monongahela Valley Traction Co., carried passengers and freight from Rivesville through Fairmont, Clarksburg and Weston on a 150-mile interurban trolley route.

The trolley car includes fold-down wooden benches in front of the baggage door where coal miners could sit so they wouldn't get coal dust on rattan seats used by other passengers. It also has many original details, including glass windows, seats and signs.

In 1947, City Lines of West Virginia donated the car to the Shore Line Trolley Museum, the nation's oldest trolley museum in East Haven, Conn.

After keeping it in storage 58 years, Shore Line decided to donate it to the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum, which is closer to the region where the car was used. The local museum now has the ability to showcase it in its 28,000-square-foot display building.

Becker expressed gratitude to Short Line for its generosity "in making this car available to us for preservation.

"It is truly a classic interurban that connected small towns with larger cities," he said in a news release. "In a sense, the car is coming back home" to the museum 65 miles from Fairmont.