United Railways and Electric Company | |
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1900 map
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Overview | |
Status | Defunct |
Owner | United Railways and Electric Company |
Locale | Baltimore |
Service | |
Type | street railway |
Operator(s) | United Railways and Electric Company |
Technical | |
Track gauge | 5 ft 4+1⁄2 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. stateofMaryland from 1899 to 1935.[1][2]
In 1900, the company built the Power PlantinBaltimore'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.
The date that the line was replaced with a bus or abandoned (the day after the last full day of streetcar operation) is shown.