Shore Fast Line Trolleys 1910 Vintage Postcard

From www.railphotoexpress.biz Vintage Advertisement From 1910 The company that operated the Shore Fast Line was called Atlantic City and Shore Railroad. The Shore Fast Line was an electric interurban passenger railroad running from Atlantic City, New Jersey, to Ocean City, New Jersey, by way of the mainland communities of Pleasantville, Northfield, Linwood and Somers Point. The line ran from 1906 until 1948. The Shore Fast Line began service in 1906,using The Pennsylvania Railroad Tracks through the center of each town. They used Brill Company Trolleys built in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Atlantic City Quakers who helped develop the Monopoly board game named one of the railroad squares for the Shore Fast Line. Charles and Olive Todd, who taught the game to Charles Darrow, its eventual patentee, shortened the name on their board to Short Line.