Today marks the 85th anniversary of the end of service on the Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railroad, an interurban railroad that connected the three cities from 1908 - August of 1935. To commemorate this anniversary, we're featuring a WB&A timetable for today's edition of TrolleyTime.
This timetable is about the size of a postcard, and features a WB&A train, consisting of three interurban cars, on the front. The back features a timetable in vertical format.
We briefly discussed the WB&A in a post on our Facebook page about a year ago, and will go into more depth about the railroad in a future TrolleyTime blog post. Our Mills Dean III Library at the Trolley Museum holds a large collection of WB&A artifacts, and although the railroad remains largely unheard of by the general public, we remain committed to preserving and interpreting the history of the railroad; a fascinating and important part of the history of transportation and development in Washington and Maryland.
