"Line
will be in operation in time for Christmas Shopping" was the headline for an 1898 article in the Baltimore Sun. Initially started in 1895 by the Edmondson Avenue,
Catonsville Ellicott City Electric Railway, they stopped constructing the road which involved cutting through a 50-foot hill and diverting a stream. The new company had problems
building the eastern bridge abutment and had to get permission to shut down the mill race for the Gambrills mill while they built the abutment.
