Kingston, New York: Trolley Museum: Last WTC Survivor Car

PATH car #143 was one of two out of a seven-car train that survived the 9/11 attacks at the World Trade Center. Because of evacuation orders that day there was no loss of life on the train or at the WTC PATH station. The other surviving car, lead car #745, is on exhibit at The Shore Line Trolley Museum in East Haven, Connecticut.

This museum also has destroyed police car 53100, and a few other 9/11 relics on display.

If you pay admission ($8 adult $6 child) you get an amazing trolley ride with narrative along the Rondout Creek. The tracks go past old lime kilns, a derelict Dayliner, views of the Esopus Meadows Lighthouse, and end at the remains of an old pier that leads to a picnic area that was once Kingston Point Park.

Trolleys from Germany, Belgium, Sweden, and Norway can be seen from the observation window upstairs, and then you are able to walk up close to them downstairs. Notable items in the collection include a Holmenkolbanen No. 3. Tram built in 1897 and used by King Olav V of Norway; a Boston subway car, "The T;" and the PATH PA-1 commuter No. 143 -- the last surviving car from the train that was parked deep beneath the World Trade Center Twin Towers when they collapsed on 9/11.