In the late 19th and early 20th century, the Norton Point trolley line carried passengers from a terminal at Stillwell Avenue west into the community of Sea Gate. The right-of-way (or path) of the trolley was on Railroad Avenue, which sat between Surf and Mermaid Avenues. The trolley service was discontinued only a few months after this photo was captured. Following the December 1948 closure, the former right-of-way was briefly turned into a regular street, but that too disappeared after a few years. Today any vestiges of the trolley line have been lost under new developments of the last few decades.