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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2026 12:56 pm Post subject:

The lone survivor........

The last remaining PSNJ car house/garage is at Market Street in Paterson (formerly the PASSAIC Division)

This classical-looking and stately structure, dating to the 1890s/1900s, also once served streetcars and ASVs.

It is still used by NJT buses today, and is siimilar in style to the recentl -demolished UNION CITY garage/car house (closed c.-1995)

Now a landmark, the echoing facility i bow being upgraded to facilitate electric buses..........

"NYO"

["PUBLIC SERVICE COORDINATED TRANSPORT"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2026 1:10 pm Post subject:

Also......

The historic Market Street garage is currently "home base" to 13 "local" bus routes, served by NABIs.

New 40-foot battery-electric NEW FLYERS will soon bere replacing these buses ............

"NYO"

["751 FAIRVIEW"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2026 2:58 pm Post subject:

These historic photos (c.-1937) show the storage yard of PSNJ's Market Street carhouse/garage)in Paterson; the remaining streetcar lines that were based here were converted to buses/ASVs in late 1938.

ASVs also used this facility until 1948...........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?118338

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?117965

(courtesy:nycsubway.org)

["HUDSON RIVER"]

Cyberider · Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 1349 Location: Tempe, AZ

Let's hope the new battery buses don't catch fire and burn down this historic facility!

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2026 5:22 pm Post subject:

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2026 7:28 pm Post subject:

When the Union City (then West Hoboken) car house opened in the 1890s, it was bounded on the north by a large outdoor storage yard.

Just prior to WW1, an extension of the car house was built, being erected over the outdoor storage tracks,

the original turreted building (known in later years to PS men as the "Big House") was used for heavy repairs, major electrical work, painting, etc)

These late-1930s photos show this extension, fronting New York Avenue, bordering 29th Street; you are looking northwest here.........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?118320

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?118323

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

['UNION CITY")

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2026 2:39 pm Post subject:

By the 1940s,"GREENVILLE" (Jersey City) was the only PS car house/garage on the HUDSON Division to havea yard; over the years, this busy facility served several streetcar lines, as well as ASVs and buses.

After 1949,"GREENVILLE" was an all-bus facility.

It was in operation into the NJT years; later, it was closed and demolished......

"NYO"

["JACKSON"]

["OAKLAND"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2026 2:51 pm Post subject:

This photo appears to have been taken in 1949, just prior to the last HUDSON Division streetcars being converted to buses; the location is adjacent to the "GREENVILLE" car house/garage.

The bus on the left is one of the many 4509s PS purchased after the War.........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?118360

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["2804"]

Cyberider · Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 1349 Location: Tempe, AZ

Sounds like some fascinating places back in the day. At least one still stands even though what's going on isn't as interesting as it once was.

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2026 4:14 pm Post subject:

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2026 12:02 pm Post subject:

From about 1940, and until the end of all HUDSON Division streetcars in 1949, all cars operating in Union City were required to carry small rooftop markers (known as "bug eyes"), due to a Union City ordinance then on the books.

These markers were illuminated in red at night..........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?116231

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?116255

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?116256

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["SUMMIT"]

["UNION CITY"]

Cyberider · Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 1349 Location: Tempe, AZ

That's a detail I was definitely unaware of! Thanks, NYO.

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2026 8:01 pm Post subject:

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2026 9:01 pm Post subject:

"Compromise roof" cars............

The first of these "signature" PS cars entered service in 1915; the last were built about 1919.

Interestingly, some of these distinctive cars were built in PS's Plank Road shops(Newark); others were built by St. Louis.

The very last were retired in early 1954, when the ex-TCRT PCCS replaced them in the Newark City Subway.........

"NYO"

["SUBWAY CAR-SAVE TIME & PARKING"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2026 9:18 pm Post subject:

The "Rapid Transit 8000s" were an interesting "sub class" of "Compromise" car.

These cars, prior to the opening of the City Subway in 1935, were re-numbered into the 8000s.

Upgraded for higher speeds in the Subway, the "8000s" were furnished with high speed trucks salvaged from NJRT's Jewett nterurbans.

The NJRT trucks survived the Jewetts themselves by more than 20 years.

This nostalgic c.-1950 photo shows a resplendent #8013 at the "#21" loop in Orange.

This subway-surface line was converted to buses in early 1952......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?118355

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["21 ORANGE"]