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Blue Ridge Trolley Hagerstown & Frederick Railway by Herbert Harwood 1970 DJ
Blue Ridge Trolley Hagerstown & Frederick Railway by Herbert Harwood
Copyright 1970 First Printing
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
144 Pages
Indexed
CONTENTS
Preface 6
Chapter 1- Early Days 9
Chapter z - The Growing Years 17
Chapter 3 - The Hagerstown Railway 29
Chapter 4 - Unification: The Hagerstown & Frederick Railway 37
Chapter 5 - Security and Stagnation: 1914-193o 77
Chapter 6 - Depression 93
Chapter 7 - Reprieve and Requiem 101
Rosters of Equipment 129
Acknowledgments / References 142
Index 143
Remember the days when electric railway cars (often nicknamed the "trolley") connected cities and towns; when amusement parks owned by these railways drew people from both ends of the line to a place for joyous picnicking and family reunion. Many of these lines were short - some were extensive systems connecting towns and villages. It was a small town indeed that didn't have a trolley humming over the hills or running down the middle of Main Street.
Blue Ridge Trolley is the story of a trolley business enterprise - the life and times of the Hagerstown & Frederick Railway. Like the rest of them, the genesis of the H&F came in the mid-1890's when the trolley offered rural America its first practical salvation from mud-bog roads. It grew from a disjointed collection of small, locally-promoted electric railways, and was put together in 1913 to form a modest-sized railway and electric utility system serving the eastern Allegheny region of Maryland.
The formation of the Hagerstown & Frederick Railway unhappily coincided with the long decline of the electric railway. By 1920 the H&F settled into stagnation. Set in its ways, the railway plodded along while its electric utility business expanded voraciously. It merged, built and bought its way to dominance in a vast four-state area, and rapidly became parent instead of offspring. Sheltered by its prosperous parent, the H&F system managed to survive the Depression. By the late thirties the crumbling began; by the late forties only one line remained; by the mid-fifties there was virtually nothing.
A distinctive book about a trolley line that was to form the nucleus of the present day Potomac Edison Company.
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