Atlantic City and Shore Railroad

Shore Fast Line
Shore Fast Line
	Two Mile Trestle across Great Egg Harbor Bay
Overview
Locale	New Jersey
Termini	Atlantic City; Ocean City
Service
Operator(s)	Atlantic City and Shore Railroad
History
Opened	1907
Closed	1948
Technical
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)

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 11 miles (18 km) 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.

Terminus at Boardwalk and Eight Street, Ocean City
Bridge Approaching Ocean City
Northfield Golf Links
Pleasantville

References[]

^ George Woodman Hilton; John Fitzgerald Due (1960). The Electric Interurban Railways in America. Stanford University Press. p. 307.
^ Borgnis, Mervin E. "We Had A Shore Fast Line," 1979 (Exposition Press)(ISBN 0682494119).
^ Orbanes, Philip E. (2006). 'Monopoly: the world's most famous game & how it got that way'. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press. p. 52. ISBN 0-306-81489-7.
^ Orbanes, Monopoly, p. 53
^ Anspach, Ralph (2000). The Billion Dollar Monopoly Swindle (Second ed.). Xlibris Corporation. p. 132. ISBN 0-7388-3139-5.