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===Former transportation lines=== In 1880, one year after Ocean City was established as a Christian resort, regular [[steamboat]] service from Somers Point began.<ref name="hoc">{{cite web|title=History of Ocean City, NJ|publisher=VisitNJShore.com|access-date=March 1, 2018|url=https://www.visitnjshore.com/ocean-city/history/|archive-date=March 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180302163943/https://www.visitnjshore.com/ocean-city/history/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1883, the Lake Brothers opened a [[Tram|streetcar line]].<ref name="when"/> In 1884, the [[West Jersey and Seashore Railroad]] extended its rail line from Sea Isle to the [[Ocean City Tenth Street Station]].<ref name="miller"/> The line was replaced by buses in 1932. From 1906 to 1981, the [[Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines]] operated rail service from [[Tuckahoe, New Jersey|Tuckahoe]] to Ocean City; service stopped when the Crook Horn bridge became damaged in 1981, and was eventually removed in 1992. After that time, rail tracks in Ocean City were removed from 9th to 34th streets.<ref>{{cite web|title=A General Chronology of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company its Predecessors and Successors and its Historical Context, 1906|date=May 2016|author=Christopher T. Baer|url=http://www.prrths.com/newprr_files/Hagley/PRR1906.pdf|access-date=November 26, 2018|publisher=The Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society|archive-date=March 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190312132741/http://www.prrths.com/newprr_files/Hagley/PRR1906.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="when">{{cite book|title=When the Railroad Leaves Town: American Communities in the Age of Rail Line Abandonment|url=https://archive.org/details/whenrailroadleav00schw|url-access=registration|pages=[https://archive.org/details/whenrailroadleav00schw/page/193 193β197]|year=2001|isbn=0-943549-97-3|publisher=Truman State University Press}}</ref> From 1907 to 1946, the [[Atlantic City and Shore Railroad]] operated a line from Atlantic City to Ocean City, until the bridge across the Great Egg Harbor Bay burned.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Electric Interurban Railways in America|author=George Woodman Hilton|author2=John Fitzgerald Due|page=307|publisher=Stanford University Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J2zH-zcuU-MC&pg=PA307|year=1960|isbn=9780804740142|access-date=November 26, 2018|archive-date=November 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127160703/https://books.google.com/books?id=J2zH-zcuU-MC&pg=PA307|url-status=live}}</ref>
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