Using a Trolley Car as a Moving Van

The Conestoga Traction Company, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, made the not-so-obvious leap of faith that a trolley car could be put into service hauling furniture etc. for people moving house. It helps if your trackage covers the locality pretty densely; otherwise, you'll spend all your time loading and offloading to horse-drawn wagons. The comment about the market for this common carrier being "from some point in the city to the country or vice versa" seems to me to imply a fatally limited for an already questionable project. Click for larger.

Originally published in the July, 1908 issue of POPULAR ELECTRICITY.

Getting There

Triple meaning: (1) Transportation (2) Getting this blog organized and updated (3) Moving it from its previous location.

So far, so good.


The handwritten caption reads "Largest electric locomotive in the world. To run thro' P.R.R. tunnel to N. Y. City".Source: Library of Congress.