Tracy

Newbie to this site but a long-time rail nut. Many electric companies started as electric interurbans but ended up selling electricity when cars and freight trucks came into common use. When I lived in Central Maryland many years ago I became curious when I saw old bridge abutments under a power line where there had never been a road. Come to find out that it was part of the right-of-way of the Hagerstown & Frederick interurban system, which had been acquired by Potomac Edison when the trains quit running. In other words, the electric company probably owned that right of way before residential sprawl made it to that area.