This scene was at what is now the intersection of SR 103 and 598 where the SN&M [Sandusky, Norwalk, and Mansfield] had a branch line that ran to the old bandstand on Myrtle Avenue, CA 1914.

S, N, & M Electric Railway wreck near Newman's Corners [present day SR 103 and 598].

Electric railway car seen through an auto windshield near North Fairfield in the winter.  Exact date is unknown.

This Picture was taken on July 4, 1910, two years before the Masonic Temple was build, which would be next to the Sheidley Hotel in back of this trolley.

Another View from the same wreck above.

S N & M electric railway car #4 on Main Street in Norwalk [the County Seat] in front of its historical Glass Block building about 1900.

Map of Southwestern Electric Railway System, about 1915.

Map of Lake Shore Electric Railway System, about 1930.

1918 Map of Huron County.  Detailed trolley lines are clearly visible.

SN&M Electric Railway bridge over B&O Railway East of Willard, CA 1906.  Another view in photo below.

SN&M Electric Railway Station in North Fairfield, CA 1904.

SN&M Electric Railway Station and Store at Steuben, CA 1906.

The rear platform of this car was not covered and only had a low handrail.  Also, there was no baggage room at the front.  Usually the back platform was enclosed with a back window that the conductor could lower instantly if the trolley would jump off the overhead wire which happened quite frequently.  The electric power was usually 650 volts, direct current [DC].  The trolley pole was controlled with a heavy braided rope and the conductor always wore heavy leather gloves to handle it.  With just a low, steel rail on an open platform, it was a dangerous operation and in the rain with the rope wet, there was danger of electrocution.  And DC current is more deadly than AC.  Large motors in sub-stations at regular intervals along the route maintained the DC power.

A picture of Plymouth, Ohio square CA 1906 showing arrival of SN&M Railway car.  This line was dedicated in 1905 and this is the first photo showing the short car with no baggage room at the back of the motorman's position.  The pick-up and handling of farm produce and other materials represented a large part  of the income for these electric lines through the rural areas, but these first cars seemed to have omitted it.  The car has arrived from New Haven  and Newman's Corners and is heading south.

Facing North, the scene is  from downtown New Haven about 1910 or before.  Trolley car tracks are on the right.  The picture in the first column to the far left is on the same road, but further North.

Plymouth Public Square with bandstand and SN&M electric car, CA 1915.

SN&M electric railway at Plymouth, CA 1904

SN&M electric railway station at Chicago Junction [Willard] about 1913, located at the corner of West Pearl and Myrtle Avenue.  Albert W. Holmes owned the Optometrist and Watch Repair Shop directly behind this wagon.  The house on the left is where the Post Office is now located.

South Plymouth Street, CA 1904.  Note the two children on the far left.

SN&M work car and crew, CA 1915.  See same but poorer quality picture at right with more in view.

Another picture of the only work car own by SN&M.  

This S, N & M railway car jumped the track at the corner of Myrtle Ave. and Tiffin St. about 1916-1918.  This track ran from the front of city hall, south on Myrtle to Tiffin St., and then east alongside of Tiffin St., under the pioneer subway, and out to Newman's Corners where it could go south to Shelby or north to Steuben. 

Myrtle Avenue in Chicago, Ohio [Willard] CA 1907.

S N & M tracks in front of some gigantic piles of wheat awaiting the steam threshing machine in North Fairfield, about 1920. Some frugal minded farmers preferred stacking this way with space for the separator between the stacks.  Cost and time were saved if the threshing machine did not have to be hauled to the field.

Public Square in Bucyrus, Ohio showing electric railway car.  Exact date is unknown.

Main Street in Norwalk, Ohio showing S N & M tracks about 1903 from a post card.

The first run of the first gasoline powered street car in 1921.  The electric line had failed and an effort was made to replace it with the gas powered car.  Two years later this also failed.  On the right are Dr. Rumbaugh and Bevy Keefer.  The rest have not been identified.

Inter-urban car, SM&N electric railway at the intersection of Myrtle and Pearl Streets, using a car on loan from Lakeshore Electric Railway, about in the early teens.