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BELMONT TROLLEY
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The Gaston Gazette // November 15, 2024
Gaston County is supporting the Belmont Trolley project through a contribution of $100,000 in tourism funds.
Queen City News // November 14, 2024
By the end of next year, you’ll likely be able to catch a new ride in downtown Belmont. The city’s trolley project has been 10 years in the making. Project leaders are hoping they’ll finally be able to start building the Belmont Trolley Barn next spring.
Yahoo! News // November 14, 2024
By the end of next year, you’ll likely be able to catch a new ride in downtown Belmont.
WCNC // November 14, 2024
Gaston County donated $100,000 in tourism funds to the project, with the approval of the Gaston County Tourism Advisory Board and the unanimous agreement of the Gaston County Board of Commissioners.
Charlotte Stories // November 13, 2024
The Belmont Trolley Project has received a significant boost, given them just enough funds to officially launch the highly anticipated project.
WCNC // November 13, 2024
With the contribution, the Belmont Trolley has secured nearly $2 million in funding. Now, it can begin phase one of the Belmont Trolley Station.
Gaston County News // November 13, 2024
Gaston County is supporting the Belmont Trolley project through a contribution of $100,000 in Tourism funds. The donation was approved by the Gaston County Tourism Advisory Board and unanimously agreed to by the Gaston County Board of Commissioners at its voting meeting Tuesday night.
Gaston Gazette // January 16, 2024
Belmont Trolley Inc. is one step closer to reviving a piece of the city’s history thanks to a $1 million grant from this year’s state budget.
Gaston Alive // January 9, 2024
The nonprofit Belmont Trolley has received a $1 million dollar grant from the State of North Carolina. The grant will be used construct a trolley facility and to restore and refurbish trolley cars.
Queen City News // July 11, 2023
The vision of a trolley system connecting Belmont Abbey College to downtown is inching closer to reality.
WTVI Charlottte // April 11, 2023
Belmont Trolley is working to connect downtown Belmont and Belmont Abbey College by bringing back trolley service. To power the electric street cars, they have teamed up with UNC-Charlotte Engineering Students to design and build a rechargeable power cars to supply the trolley.
WTVI Charlottte // March 14, 2023
Explore the history and unique stories behind our region’s Forgotten Infrastructure on Trail of History. In Belmont, meet the folks of Belmont Trolley working to return historic streetcars to the rails once used by the Piedmont and Northern Railroad.
Gaston Gazette // February 13, 2023
A project that would put a trolley in downtown Belmont will use new technology developed through a partnership that merges Belmont’s history with the technological future.
There is an effort afoot in the city of Belmont to take transportation back to a time when trolleys rolled down the tracks, but with a modern twist.
The nonprofit organization, Belmont Trolley, is working to bring trolley service back to Gaston County.
Trolley cars are making a comeback in Gaston County.
The firm will develop the 6,000-square-foot trolley barn to house a trolley for the Belmont Trolley project.
Belmont Trolley, a non-profit, has added two new historic trolleys to their fleet.
Belmont Trolley, Inc. continues to move closer to bringing people to downtown by trolley after receiving its final railcars from Charlotte this week.
Two of Charlotte’s historic trolley cars could be up and running again—this time in the Gaston County city of Belmont.
Officials who want to bring a working trolley to downtown Belmont have unveiled a new visual concept for the building that would house multiple railcars near Glenway Street.
Belmont leaders next week are expected to approve a first phase of public funding for an effort to get a historic trolley up and running through the city.
The greenway isn’t the only project being developed along the old P&N railway. The city and state have also been working with Belmont Trolley to refurbish a portion of the track to run a historic trolley car.
Guests at a Montcross Area Chamber “Network After Work” got a glimpse at both the past and future of a 1913 trolley that one day will roll along the old P&N line.
