Valley Girl Views: The S&S Trolley In Selinsgrove

The S&S Trolley at the station located at the south end of Orange Street, North of Walnut St.

The trolley station in Selinsgrove opened on February 4th 1909

A.G. Hornberger operated a candy and cigar store in the station. The business was purchased in 1916 by J. Howard Burns and R. Clark McFall. Lloyd Zelner was a local business man, who operated a restaurant, in addition to making his own ice cream

The trolley in Selinsgrove, with the orange street station on the left

In August of 1909, N.D. Masetller brought a suit for damages against the Sunbury & Selinsgrove Trolley Company, after he threw his arm out the window and struck it against the iron river bridge, breaking his arm in 3 places.

Trolley bridge over 'Meadows' looking N toward Penns Creek and Hummels Wharf.

In June of 1909, Ed. M. Hummel Baker sued the trolley company for damages regarding land that had been taken by eminent domain.

Sunbury and Selinsgrove (S & S) Trolley; car # 108

See the Trolley In Sunbury here:

https://susquehannavalley.blogspot.com/2021/12/when-trolleys-ran-in-sunbury.html

"Early in the morning many people could be seen with lunch basket in hand wending their way to the Sunbury and Selinsgrove trolley cars to spend the day at beautiful Rolling Green Park, while others enjoyed a days outing at Island Park." July 4th 1909

A special train ran once a week from Milton to the trolley stop in Sunbury, allowing easy access to visit Rolling Green Park.

Trolley cars arriving at Rolling Green, 1909

Rolling Green Park was an amusement park located in the area of Hummels Wharf.

See photos of the park here:

https://susquehannavalley.blogspot.com/2019/06/rolling-green-park-peoples-playground-in.html

The Barber trolley car on the right is sitting on the tracks at the south end of the line, which proceeded through town on Orange Street. The view is of Walnut street, now Univ Ave, looking west, from the Pennsylvania Railroad crossing, toward the intersection with Broad Street. The first home on the left is the former residence of Charles Walter, and later Douglas Sprenkle.

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S & S Trolley car in Monroe Township with Penns Creek and SG directly behind them, to the south. The trolley bridge crossed Penns Creek and the Meadows into SG. On the left are the remains of the covered bridge that had spanned Penns Creek at Monroe Mills. This photo was taken a day or two after the bridge was torn from its abutments by an ice flood, on Feb 20, 1918.

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1934 photo of trolley car #118 of the S & S Railway Co heading S on what is now US 11-15 in Hummels Wharf. Power station and car barn on left

A Sunbury & Selinsgrove Trolley at Rolling Green Park

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Trolley station on the left, showing the trolley line to Sunbury running along Orange street.

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This view of the 1936 flood shows the trolley car diner along south market street. The diner was a former S&S trolley car. The diner was located just below the former Russells tavern. The Tavern building had been a garage operated by Gene Steese, and with extensive filling, Steese created enough land to place the diner diagonally on the property. It was operated by Sarah Hendricks Steese, from at least 1935, until possibly 1942-43.

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