Hartford Trolleys

By Connecticut Motor Coach Museum

By 1908 Hartford had an extensive system of streetcar lines radiating from the city in all directions. The Hartford division of the Connecticut Company totaled more than one hundred twenty-five miles of track for streetcars, the dominant mode of public transportation in central Connecticut. One could take a car to New Britain, Stafford Springs, or all the way to Springfield, Massachusetts. By the 1920s, the lighter density streetcar lines were no longer lucrative and the system was converted to a motor coach operation; by the early 1930s, the automobile had replaced the streetcar as the favored mode of transport. The advent of automobile transportation eventually led to the closing of all the Hartford streetcar lines in July 1941.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
• Release date: Jul 8, 2004
• ISBN: 9781439615799

Connecticut Motor Coach Museum

Through the efforts of one man, Horace Bromley, many of the images in New London County Trolleys were preserved for future generations. Bromley donated his extensive collection to the Connecticut Motor Coach Museum prior to his death in 1990. Four members of the Connecticut Motor Coach Museum-John Sullivan, Nancy Johanson, Alan Walker, and Bert Johanson-assembled this book to perpetuate Bromley's ideals of preserving and sharing history.

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