Fryeburg horse tram
The Fryeburg Horse Tram was a streetcar operator in Fryeburg, Oxford County , Maine . On March 3, 1887, the Fryeburg Horse Railroad Company was founded. On March 16, 1887, this company received a concession to build and operate a horse-drawn railway through Fryeburg from the train station to a hotel in Martha's Grove in the north of the small town. The concession explicitly did not provide for a permit to operate the line with electricity or compressed air and initially ran for 20 years. Society was also not allowed to produce light, electricity or heating.
The three-mile (around 4.5 kilometers) long, standard-gauge railway was completed on July 25 of the same year, but it was not officially opened until May 18, 1888. Very light rails with a weight of 16 lb / yd (around 8 kg / m) were used. The train only ran from June 1st to October 1st of each year. The later planned extensions to Stow and Lovell were not built for financial reasons. It was not until 1902 that a shed for storing vehicles was bought for $ 87.75. Before that, the cars were parked in the open on a siding.
In the 1910 financial year, three open and three closed passenger cars were available to Deutsche Bahn. Although the approval for electrification was granted as early as 1897, the railway company stopped operating after the 1913 season and dismantled the facilities.
Sources and further information
- Individual evidence
- ^ Town History of Fryeburg, Maine. ( Memento of the original from September 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ↑ Cummings 1955, p. 50.
- literature
- OR Cummings: Toonervilles of Maine. The Pine Tree State. Newburyport MA, 1955. pp. 49-50.
- Poor's Manual of Railroads, 44th Annual Number. New York: Poor's Railroad Manual Co., 1911, p. 2066.