The Trolley Route

We offer two different maps which orient guests to the trolley route.

Along the east wall a remastered company map shows the route as it appeared among the terrain and roads of the area.  This updated version offers modern highways as faint gray lines which will further help orient visitors to the location.  YOU ARE HERE is marked at the end of the Boonsboro Branch.

On this map, both the Hagerstown & Frederick Railway (Red) and Chambersburg, Greencastle & Waynesboro Street Railway (green) is shown.  The H&F Railway purchased the CG&W in 1917 and operated it until 1932.

The Traveling from Boonsboro exhibit offers a more modern view of the trolley system.  Designed exclusively for our museum, this map shows different trolley assignments as different colors on a metro-style map resembling that of a modern subway system.  This map, while not to scale, shows the common stops along each of these routes, as well as places where passengers often would exchange cars or transfer to other railroads.

A small inset map shows what the Hagerstown Railway’s official and very exaggerated timetable looked like in 1907-1909.

Above the map, many of the towns served by the railway are represented with photographs of trolleys in that community and a map giving detail of where trolley tracks existed in relation to streets.  Under each town name is a price and time frame.  This is the one-way trip cost and average travel time if departing Boonsboro for that destination in the summer of 1920.  Often a round trip ticket would be only 10-25 cents additional.