Bucks County Trolley Lines

In person presentation 
by Mike Szilagyi, AICP, author and historian
Wednesday, September 9, 2025, 6:00 – 7:30 pm

Here is the link for people unable to attend in person:

https://freelibrary-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jzRAHDU2To2gpnczTJNUDg

Bucks County, Pennsylvania, was once served by 120 miles of trolley lines. During the decades spanning the 1890s to 1950s, a variety of trolley cars glided through towns and across Bucks County’s countryside, beginning with Langhorne’s quaint open streetcars and culminating with streamlined interurbans streaking across open fields from Sellersville to Quakertown at 80 miles per hour. The trolleys were powered by electricity, with the line stretching north from Doylestown energized by renewable hydroelectric power generated by the Delaware Canal. Before automobiles and trucks were commonplace, and before roads were paved, the rapid, convenient electric trolley was the best mode of travel for both passengers and freight. These rare photographs provide glimpses of that long-lost mode of travel, and charming scenes of Bucks County’s soon-to-be-altered landscapes.