While our organization is the only nonprofit dedicated specifically to preserving the history of the Hagerstown & Frederick Railway, other organizations also preserve items from the railway’s history. Maintaining a record of where these allied materials can also be found by researchers is just one more way we seek to fulfill our mission. The following are the collections that we are aware of.

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Pennsylvania Trolley Museum –

PA-Trolley.org

The PTM is located about half an hour south of Pittsburgh in Washington, Pennsylvania. This museum has an extensive collection of trolleys from Pennsylvania and abroad and offers trolley rides on every operating day. The museum is also home to an equally extensive research center related to all companies which fell under the umbrella of the American Waterworks & Electric Company and is the home of the remnants of Potomac Edison’s company archive. Researchers will find original company documents, photographs, drawings and maps, some of the few remaining employee records and internal reports and memos from the Hagerstown & Frederick Railway and Potomac Edison.

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Hagley Museum & Library

Hagley.org

In 2020, Herbert H. Harwood Jr. donated his photographic negative collection including approximately 150,000 images including many Hagerstown & Frederick Railway images. Mr. Harwood is the author of Blue Ridge Trolley and many other expertly written railroad history titles covering a variety of railroads in the United States with a focus on the Maryland area.

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Maryland Rail Heritage Library –

BaltimoreNRHS.org, BaltimoreStreetcarMuseum.org

This joint archive between the Baltimore Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society and the Baltimore Streetcar Museum resides at the Streetcar Museum campus where visitors are given the opportunity to ride a wide variety of trolleys and streetcars. This library offers thousands of books and records as well as a collection of Hagerstown & Frederick photographs and negatives.

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The Robert S. Kinnaird Collection of Historic Thurmont Photographs

ThurmontImages.com

Collected and curated by Thurmont mayor John Kinnaird, this collection of photographs and scanned documents from Thurmont and its surrounding area contains over 400 Hagerstown & Frederick related images available to the public.

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National Capitol Trolley Museum

DCTrolley.org

Located in Colesville, outside of the District of Columbia, the NCTM preserves the history of trolley and streetcar service in and around the city. A small photograph display represents the H&F in their exhibit hall and there is a small collection of H&F tickets and small items in their research archives.

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Hagerstown Roundhouse Museum

Roundhouse.org

The Roundhouse Museum gives guests a glimpse at Hagerstown area railroad history and is very welcoming and interactive for younger guests. The museum archive contains a small collection of H&F items and photographs but is notable as the home of several H&F lanterns, a surviving Williamsport destination sign and of course surviving H&F Interurban Combine #168, the system’s first steel bodied car.

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Other Railroad Organizations