Just in time for the start of football season, the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum in Chartiers Township unveiled its latest restoration project, The Terrible Trolley, so-named for the yellow Terrible Towel that Pittsburgh Steelers fans wave at games and rallies.

Painted black and gold and bearing the Steelers logo, the restored trolley traveled down the city’s streets from 1980 to 1986.

It was rebuilt in 1989, then retired in 1998. Early on, the Terrible Trolley went by the name Streetcar 1713, built in 1949 by the St. Louis Car Company, and originally ran on Pittsburgh Railways’ Charleroi and Washington interurban lines.

The two-year restoration project was carried out in a partnership with the Washington County Tourism Promotion Agency.

At this week’s unveiling, Tom Rooney, a member of the family that owns the Pittsburgh Steelers, called the restoration “an immaculate resurrection,” while museum director Jeanine DeBor noted the “beautifully restored and nostalgic streetcar” is a tangible symbol of the Pittsburgh region’s pride in the Steelers.

— Observer Reporter, Washington, Pa.