Rails North of Doylestown

While looking at Google maps, you can clearly see the remains of rails imbedded in concrete and blacktop behind a business on Old Easton Road, along with what looks like a transfer table and additional rails going into what may have once been a car barn or engine house. Does anyone know if this was part of a railroad or an old trolley operation? Never saw this before.

Link here: http://maps.google.com/?ll=40.333683,-7 ... 5&t=h&z=19

The line in question is the remnants of the Philadelphia and Easton Electric Railway (originally the Doylestown and Easton Railway), it ran from 1904 until 1926. If you drive along Route 611 between Doylestown and Easton there is a substantial amount of remnants of the line in the form of bridges, embankments and cuts.

Andyt293 wrote:The line in question is the remnants of the Philadelphia and Easton Electric Railway (originally the Doylestown and Easton Railway), it ran from 1904 until 1926. If you drive along Route 611 between Doylestown and Easton there is a substantial amount of remnants of the line in the form of bridges, embankments and cuts.

Thanks Andy. I suspected that this might be the line but could find no references to a carbarn in Doylestown. I was amazed by how much is still in existence, including the rails and especially the transfer table. Sadly, I believe the business that they are behind is the one that burned this morning.

Page 54 of the book linked below shows a picture of the carbarn in Plumsteadville, which is north of Doylestown

http://books.google.com/books?id=ILe2fs ... rn&f=false

This building still exists south of Easton on Route 611


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