Street car Web Quest!
NCTM Director of Education Karen Lipson has created this web quest as today's TrolleyTime activity. All answers are found on the NCTM website.
Children and teens (ages 18 and under ONLY) may send in the web quest sheet and, if answered entirely correctly, will receive one NCTM logo computer sticker.*
*Supplies are extremely limited, first come first served. No submissions will be accepted after Saturday, October 31, 2020 at 11:59 pm EST.
We're pleased to showcase two rare items from the early days of interurban rail transit in Maryland. The Annapolis, Washington and Baltimore Railroad, a steam railroad, was formed in March of 1886 following the bankruptcy of the Annapolis and Elk Ridge Railroad. Just 17 years later, in February of 1903, all of the AW&B's capital stock was purchased by the newly formed Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway to serve as their Annapolis division. The AW&B fully ceased to exist in 1908 when the WB&A completed formal purchase of the AW&B's property and franchise.
Here are a few pictures of the facility - at the time, DC Streetcar was still in the process of moving into the building.
(Click on images to open in larger format. Additional photos, with descriptions, are available on our Facebook page: facebook.com/dctrolley/photos)
