Support the Fort Collins Municipal Railway

There are many ways to help preserve and demonstrate Fort Collins' streetcar heritage. We're a 501(c)(3) non-profit, all-volunteer organization that depends on active membership from individuals, donations and grants. You can help ensure that we continue to run car 21 and teach others about our local streetcar system by joining us. Please click below to learn how you can support the trolley:

  Become a member

  Become a volunteer

  Charter car 21

  Sponsor a car card

  Buy trolley stuff

  Become a member

These memberships are open:

• Associate, $15/year
• Family, $20/year
• Sponsor, $30/year
• Benefactor, $100/year
• Lifetime, $500

All members receive our informal Trolley Fare   newsletter and a six-ride pass upon each renewal. Members also elect the slate of officers and directors at the annual meeting each January.

For more information on our Society, please call (970) 224-5372.

  Become a volunteer

If you enjoy meeting people, want to learn more local history, have fun showing kids the thrill of riding the rails, or simply want to be a part of our unique, living history organization...the trolley is the place for you! We are an all-volunteer group that operates on weekend and holiday afternoons from May through September. Each operating day requires two conductor/motorman crews, one starting at Noon and the other at 2:30PM. On holidays, we also open the restored depot in City Park to handle the increased patronage and sell items from our Online Depot.

We currently have openings for new volunteers in both operation and maintanence. Training begins each year in April.

Volunteer training

As a new volunteer, we'll teach you how to safely operate a fully restored, antique streetcar or learn the art of being a trolley conductor. Our senior motormen or conductor will provide classroom training covering the basics of operation and interacting with people. They'll work with you during hands-on sessions on the car, first without passengers, then on regularly scheduled runs. After the initial training, you can complete the hands-on training at your own pace, until you are ready to "test out" as a qualified motorman or conductor.

After you are certified to operate or conduct, our crew dispatcher will fit you into our weekend work schedule. Each weekend day includes two work shifts: Noon-2:30PM and 2:30-5PM, ensuring that eight volunteers get to work on the car each weekend. You can schedule as many shifts on the car as you like each season. You"ll probably find that showing our visitors what it was like to ride a trolley before the automobile became our "prime mover" is actually more fun than work.

To keep our proficiency up, we also conduct annual safety re-qualification sessions for motormen. You don"t have to be a member of the FCMRS to train as a new motorman or conductor. Once you pass the training course, however, you must be a member to work on the car.

Once you are a qualified motorman or conductor, you will join the ranks of a select few in the USA who are keeping up the art of working on a real electric trolley. Although our annual training session occurs in April, we"re happy to accept new volunteers any time during our operating season.

For more information on becoming a FCMRS volunteer, please call (970) 224-5372.

  Charter Car 21

A car 21 charter can spice up a special occasion for your family, workgroup or class. We run charters for school groups, weddings, club events and other private parties. We can pick you up at either end of the line or anywhere in between. We charge $45/hour. Our car can carry upto 28 people.

For more details, contact our charter coordinator, Moose Shattuck, (970)472-1071.

  Sponsor a car card

One of the easiest ways to support the trolley is to purchase and maintain an advertising card on car 21. The practice of advertising on steetcars started with the first horsecars in the 1890s. It continues today on streetcars, commuter trains and buses. Our riders view many of the car cards as they travel with us. Both your business and the trolley benefit by letting us feature you on the car.

To see if we have room for your advertisement on the car, please contact our car-card coordinator, John Beckett: ss244@q.com