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I'm not sure how you rate a firebrick "500 horsepower" but it appears that's what they did.
This was in an abandoned power house which once generated electricity for a streetcar system that ran to a long-gone amusement park. How many interesting niche hobbies have we hit on there? ;)
There aren't many firebrick makers left; once it was a massive industry.
This was in an abandoned power house which once generated electricity for a streetcar system that ran to a long-gone amusement park. How many interesting niche hobbies have we hit on there? ;)
There aren't many firebrick makers left; once it was a massive industry.
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The trolley that ran in my area never had an amusement park (there was a trolley park in Coventry, Connecticut), but they built a D.C. hydroelectric plant a few miles from here. The local utility operated it for whatever purpose until about twenty years ago. Only the slab now remains.
A trolley without an amusement park??? Shocking. Seems like most in the mid-Atlantic had at least one!
If you're interested, search "Bay Shore Park" in Baltimore for more on the location.
The Coventry line ran into Willimantic as far as the current intersection of CT Routes 32 and 66 (not to be confused with US 66) where it stopped just one side of the Union railroad line. The Willimantic / Baltic trolley (Willimantic Traction Company) line started on the other side of the track and ran to points in much of Eastern Connecticut, Windham and New London Counties ("Foxwoods County", after the casino). Both shut down in the 1930s; there are two WTC cars at the Trolley Museum in Windsor. Oddly enough, WTC went through several mutations and is now Connecticut Transit Co. (CTTransit), who run much of the commuter and city bus service in Central Connecticut. I ride their buses pretty much every work day. I still think riding the trolleys would be more fun.