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The Glenwood & Greenlawn Railroad Co.
Photo of the Month - March 2015
With seating for only ten passengers horsecar No. 3 slowly shuttled between the State of Ohio asylums west of Central Avenue
to Broad and High Streets a distance of about 2 1/2 miles. The circa 1880 photo is from the Galen Gonser Collection.
This is a rare photograph of a Glenwood & Greenlawn Railroad Company horse car at the asylums end of the line.
The G&G was a 3-foot 6-inch gauge line that ran on West Broad Street from Broad & High Streets to the two State of Ohio
facilities located west of Central Avenue.
There was also a branch of the G&G that turned south on Glenwood Avenue to Greenlawn Cemetery.
The G&G was built in 1872.
In 1891 it was changed to wide gauge (5’2”), electrified and became part of the Columbus Street Railway Co.
With seating for only ten passengers horsecar No. 3 slowly shuttled between the State of Ohio asylums west of Central Avenue
to Broad and High Streets a distance of about 2 1/2 miles. The circa 1880 photo is from the Galen Gonser Collection.
This is a rare photograph of a Glenwood & Greenlawn Railroad Company horse car at the asylums end of the line. The G&G was a 3-foot 6-inch gauge line that ran on West Broad Street from Broad & High Streets to the two State of Ohio facilities located west of Central Avenue. There was also a branch of the G&G that turned south on Glenwood Avenue to Greenlawn Cemetery.
The G&G was built in 1872. In 1891 it was changed to wide gauge (5’2”), electrified and became part of the Columbus Street Railway Co.