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trolley freight service?

This forum is for discussion of "Fallen Flag" roads not otherwise provided with a specific forum. Fallen Flags are roads that no longer operate, went bankrupt, or were acquired or merged out of existence.

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Re: trolley freight service?

  by jbvb
 
Between 1916 and 1932, there was a small trolley freight operation in Amesbury, MA, associated with the Mass. Northeastern trolley line. It didn't really have a main line, using the Mass. Northeastern track to reach its spurs from its B&M connection. Its one locomotive is said not to have been adequate for some steep grades on its spurs in O.R. Cummings' "Mass. Northeastern St. Ry. Vol. 2, Merrimac Division".

Re: trolley freight service?

  by Myrtone
 
I have found a surviving example of trolley freight operation on a line that no longer has a scheduled passenger service, that line being the Iowa Traction Railway, near Mason City.
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