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Taking the trolley may soon be realityBy TERESA FRANKLIN News-Post StaffOnce every summer in the mid-’30s, a boy named Sam Maples Jr. and his Sunday School class took the trolley from downtown Frederick to the Braddock Heights Amusement Park.The conductor had a tendency to get warm in his blue serge suit and would lower the front windows so the breeze blew across his face during the 20-minute ride, Mr. Maples, a Frederick resident, recalls.“Bouncing along — it would sway from side to side like an amusement ride in itself, he said.Fifty years have passed, and the merry-go-round, the observation tower and the 40-foot slide are all gone from BraddockMountain.But a remnant from those days, thetrolleys, may be coming back to Frederick, said Mr. Maples, the first chairman of the Frederick Trolley Committee.Two years after former mayor Ronald Young set up the committee to look into the possibility of starting up a trolley system in Frederick, current committee Chairman Edward Metka is proposing a route to serve residents, commuters and tourists.The ride through downtown would be similar to the trip of the ’20s and ’30s, Mr. Metka said.Beginning at East Street extended, the downtown trolley of the mid-90s would head west on All Saints Street, north on Market Street, east on Fifth Street and south on East Street, he said.Shoppers, tourists and other riders could catch a trolley every 10 minutes along the route during business hours, he said.Another line would travel north on East Street extended from All Saints Street and roughly follow alongside U.S. 15, crossing North Market Street and Md. 26. A park-and-ride lot is planned for a site just south of Md. 355 and U.S. 15.That line could continue northeast into the Wormans Mill residential and commercial development, Mr. Metka said.He also envisions a third trolley line heading south from East Street extended and All Saints Street, down existing CSX Corp. railroad tracks to the future Monocacy Battlefield National Park near Frederick Junction.The first trolley could be running along the East Street leg of the downtown route in 1991, Mr. Metka said.Continued on Page 2
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Frederick News Post Leader
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Wed, Apr 11, 1990
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