TBT: Cabin Fever Day

There is a tradition amongst trolley museums of holding a "Cabin Fever Day" each winter; this fun (and usually cold) event allows volunteers from different trolley museums to meet for a day or two of streetcar operations, photography, spare parts trading and networking. A different museum hosts the event each year, and it was eight years ago today that we last hosted Cabin Fever Day. Bill Monaghan sends this picture from that chilly February afternoon of DC Transit 1101 exiting the Plaza Loop with a load of trolley museum volunteers. CTCo 09, then a fairly recent acquisition from the Rockhill Trolley Museum, and HTM 1329 are in the background. Participants from multiple museums took turns operating several of the cars in the NCTM collection, including the open air boat car in the 30 degree weather (it later snowed briefly.) When the museum hosted the event in 1999, the late NCTM volunteer Bob Schnabel famously managed to serve "Army Beef Stew" to 55 hungry participants.
Jack Demnyan has uploaded a video to YouTube of the day's activities; you can view it here: https://youtu.be/CIaXqHNDENs