United Railways and Electric Company

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United Railways and Electric Company
1900 UR&E map.jpg
1900 map
Overview
StatusDefunct
OwnerUnited Railways and Electric Company
Locale Baltimore
Service
Type street railway
Operator(s)United Railways and Electric Company
Technical
Track gauge 5 ft 4 12 in (1,638 mm)
Electrification (?) V DC Overhead line

The United Railways and Electric Company was a street railway company in the Baltimore Metropolitan Area of the U.S. state of Maryland from 1899 to 1935. [1] [2]

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In 1900, the company built the Power Plant in Baltimore's Inner Harbor to provide electrical power to the system. The system suffered extensive damage during the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904, but the company rebuilt under the supervision of its president, John Mifflin Hood. [3]

United Railways declared bankruptcy in 1933. The company was reorganized in 1935 as the Baltimore Transit Company. [1] In 1970 the transit company was absorbed into the Maryland Transit Administration, a public agency.

List of streetcar lines

The date that the line was replaced with a bus or abandoned (the day after the last full day of streetcar operation) is shown.

Radiating from downtown in a clockwise order
Cross connections and branches

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References

  1. 1 2 Helton, Gary (2008). Baltimore's Streetcars and Buses. Images of America. Mount Pleasant, SC: Arcadia Publishing. pp. 33–51. ISBN   978-0-7385-5369-6.
  2. Harwood, Jr., Herbert W. (1984). Baltimore and its streetcars. Quadrant Press. pp. 8–9. ISBN   0-915276-44-5.
  3. Steiner, Bernard C. (1907). Men of Mark in Maryland: Biographies of Leading Men in the State. Washington: Johnson-Wynne. p. 197.