Trolley Notes

Trolley Notes.

Many of the pictures I have posted recently are from the
Maxwell Collection of Duke University and often have
trolley tracks in the streets. Here are a collection of
newspaper items about trolleys from bygone days:

1920.-Lightning struck a trolley of the Trenton and
Mercer County Transportation Corporation tonight
during an electrical storm.

1905 Fourteen persons were injured to-night in a
collision between two trolley cars of the Trenton
Street Railway Company in Ewing Township.

1924 The State Board of Public Utility Commissioners
today granted a hike in fares on the company s
trolley line from 7 cents to I0 cents.

1901 -The Trenton, Lawrenceville and Prlnceton
Trolley Extension Company have reached Princeton
with their new line from Trenton.

1923 JERSEY TROLLEYMEN BEGIN STRIKE, HOPING
TO TIE UP 145 TOWNS;...‎

1927 Trenton, NJ, an auto collided with a trolley
car. Charles S. Fisher and George Higham of Trenton,
two men in the automobile, were seriously injured.

1904 The trolley excursion fare from Trenton to
Newark is to be $1.50

1934 Trenton, NJ, was the latest city to replace
trolleys with buses, the changeover being completed
Dec. 9, 1934.

1901 The section of the Philadelphia and New York
trolley line between here and Trenton Is now ready
for public use.