Identifier: trolleyexploring00chil (find matches)
Title: Trolley exploring : an electric railroad guide to historic & picturesque places about New York, New Jersey, and New England
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Childe, Cromwell
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Publisher: Brooklyn, N.Y. : Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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PALISADES, NEAR FORT LEE, N. J. 30 Trolley Exploring. have a highly successful trolley service of their own, stretchingfrom R^ed Bank to Belmar, a 20 mile extent of electric rails.It takes nearly two hours to make the full trip, a pretty andvaried one, skirting all the colonies at their most interestingpoints, passing the big hotels and traversing a well built up seaside. The total fare (Red Bank to Belmar) is 35 cents. Tne Red Bank line, going through Shrewsbury, Eaton-town and Oceanport, comes out on the coast at East LongBranch. The strictly coast line begins at Pleasure Bay* ouan inlet of the Shrewsbury River, and runs through East LongBranch, Long Branch, West End, Hollywood, Elberon,Deal Beach* Allenhurst, Interlaken. Asbury Park andOcean Grove. A continuing line runs to Bradley Beach,Avon and Belrnar from Asbury Park. Through Route Philadelphia, pages 17, 8k, 85.
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QUADRIGA ON SOLDIERS AND SAILORS ARCH, BROOKLYN. The Long Island Field. XCEPT for the lines that reach out from populousSouth Brooklyn, the Park Slope and Flatbush, ingleaming parallel rails, for the great system of oceanbeaches and shore front—Fort Hamilton, BathBeach, Coney Island, Manhattan Beaten,Brighton Beach, Bergen Beach, Canarsie,and for those that run northward to the smaller rivals of theseresorts—Bowery Ba.y and North Beach, on the Sound—LongIsland still cannot boast of many suburban trolleys. The summer of 1904 finds much more accomplished, however, thandid the summer of 1903. Though at Queens, to the east of Ja-maica, the trolley traveler has to walk across the steam railwaytracks from car to car, and may have to wait twenty minutes to gofurther into the rural regions, there is now a clear run from theNew York end of the Brooklyn Bridge into Hempstead, Mineola,Freeport, Rockville Centre, Lyrvbrook, Valley Stream,By September 1st it is promised that the southern bra

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