The Shore Fast Line was an electric

interurban The Interurban (or radial railway in Europe and Canada) is a type of electric railway, with streetcar-like electric self-propelled rail cars which run within and between cities or towns. They were very prevalent in North America between 1900 ...

railroad running from

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, to

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, by way of the mainland communities of Pleasantville, Northfield,

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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. The company that operated the Shore Fast Line was called ''Atlantic City and Shore Railroad''. The Atlantic City Quakers who helped develop the

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named one of the railroad squares for the Shore Fast Line. Charles and Olive Todd, who taught the game to

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, its eventual patentee, shortened the name on their oilcloth board to ''Short Line''. It is also possible that the existence of

short-line railroad :''Short Line is also one of the four railroads in the American version of the popular board game Monopoly, named after the Shore Fast Line, an interurban streetcar line.'' A shortline railroad is a small or mid-sized railroad company that oper ...

s, those that operate along short distances, influenced that change. Scene along Atlantic City and Shore Railroad, between Atlantic City and Ocean City - Terminus at Boardwalk and Eight St. - Ocean City.jpg, Terminus at Boardwalk and Eight Street, Ocean City Scene along Atlantic City and Shore Railroad, between Atlantic City and Ocean City - Bridge Approaching Ocean City.jpg, Bridge Approaching Ocean City Scene along Atlantic City and Shore Railroad, between Atlantic City and Ocean City - Northfield Golf Links.jpg, Northfield Golf Links Scene along Atlantic City and Shore Railroad, between Atlantic City and Ocean City - Pleasantville.jpg, Pleasantville

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