Atlantic City and Shore Railroad explained

Shore Fast Line
Start:	Atlantic City, U.S.
End:	Ocean City, U.S.
Open:	1907
Close:	1948
Operator:	Atlantic City and Shore Railroad
Map State:	collapsed

The Shore Fast Line was an electric interurban railroad running from Atlantic City, New Jersey, to Ocean City, New Jersey, by way of the mainland communities of Pleasantville, Northfield, Linwood and Somers Point. The line of about ran from 1907 until 1948, when a hurricane damaged the viaduct and the decline of trolleys meant that the cost to replace it was prohibitive.^{[1] [2]} The company that operated the Shore Fast Line was called Atlantic City and Shore Railroad.

The Atlantic City Quakers who helped develop the Monopoly board game named one of the railroad squares for the Shore Fast Line.^[3] Charles and Olive Todd, who taught the game to Charles Darrow, its eventual patentee, shortened the name on their oilcloth board to Short Line.^{[4] [5]} It is also possible that the existence of short-line railroads, those that operate along short distances, influenced that change.

Portions of the Right-of-way running for between Pleasantville and Somers Point have been repurposed as the Somers Point Bike Path^[6]

See also

• List of New Jersey street railroads
• Pennsylvania Railroad
• Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines
• West Jersey and Seashore Railroad

Notes and References

1. Book: The Electric Interurban Railways in America. George Woodman Hilton. John Fitzgerald Due. 307. Stanford University Press. 1960. 9780804740142.
2. Borgnis, Mervin E. "We Had A Shore Fast Line," 1979 (Exposition Press).
3. Book: Orbanes, Philip E.. 'Monopoly: the world's most famous game & how it got that way'. 2006. Da Capo Press. Cambridge, MA. 52. 0-306-81489-7. registration.
4. Orbanes, Monopoly, p. 53
5. Book: Ralph Anspach

   . Anspach, Ralph . The Billion Dollar Monopoly Swindle . Second. Xlibris Corporation. 2000. 132. 0-7388-3139-5. Ralph Anspach.

6. Klenk, Steffen. "On The Move: History of South Jersey Railroads", Shore Local, March 29, 2018. Accessed March 21, 2023. "The six-mile long Somers Point Bike Path, a six-mile long trail that stretches between Somers Point and Pleasantville, runs along the former Atlantic City and Shore Railroad. This railroad, also known as the Shore Fast Line, operated from 1907 until 1948 and provided service between Atlantic City and Ocean City."