Pictured is Jamestown Trolley No. 93. The historic trolley car project is nearly complete after decades of restoration work. Preliminary plans to display the historic trolley in the community are ongoing. Submitted photo

Even though Jamestown Street Railway Trolley Car No. 93 is stored in Falconer, N.Y., Warren Historical Society members will hear about its restoration process, and how it impacted the city.

Bob Johnston, restoration project founder, will give a presentation Tuesday on how the trolley car is being restored.

“It’s going to be about the restoration project,” Johnston said about the presentation.

The presentation is scheduled for 6 p.m. at the Warren County Courthouse, 204 Fourth Ave.

Johnston said there was also a trolley car connection between Jamestown and Warren. He said he also will talk about the Warren-Jamestown Trolley line that began at the former Brooklyn Square, then to Foote Avenue, to Frewsburg, and then to Warren.

In 1905, Johnston said, the first trolley car from Warren came into Jamestown. From Warren, the trolley ran to North Warren, to Russell, Pa., to Akeley, Pa., to Frewsburg, then stopping in Jamestown. “It (the trolley) traveled down the Conewango (River) Valley. The main road used to go through those small towns. Now it just goes by them,” Johnston said.

“The Warren-Jamestown line went into Frewsburg and kind of paralleled the railroad that also went down along that valley. It’s really quite a bit of interesting history. That (a trolley ride) was the way to go until the cars and buses came around,” Johnston noted.

The car No. 93 ran on the Willard Street line. Willard Street was home to a large population of people of Swedish descent. “There was a turnaround at the top of the hill at Willard and Willow (streets),” he said.

He said Trolley No. 93 was an electric trolley car that utilized tracks in the road. “They (trolley cars) took kids to school and took people shopping,” he said.

Johnston explained that before the rise in popularity of automobiles and modern paved roads, trolley cars provided people with convenient transportation for work, shopping, entertainment and socialization. He said the trolley car system was utilized in Dunkirk and Fredonia as early as 1866 and was utilized around Chautauqua Lake until 1948.

For more information call (814) 723-1795 or visit warrenhistory.org.