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PSNJ: the last years........
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 13, 2025 10:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Montclair, March, 1952..............

On this gloomy, dismal day, the cars of the very last subway-surface connecting lines, the #29, was converted to buses.......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?116983

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

The Bell Street carbarn became a bus garage, and was closed by TNJ in the mid-1970s; it became the popular "BELL-CLAIR LANES" bowling alley, and was in business through the 1990s.

Sadly, the old former carbarn was later torn down (I took a number of photos, back in 1989)

Interestingly, this was the ONLY PS carbarn to have switches inside the structure.

After about 1940, only "Comprise roof" cars were based here.

Note the "29" sign box atop #2680's platform; this "box" was actually two pieces of metal welded together, with cut-out numbers illuminated by a bulb; all ESSEX Division cars carried these illuminated route number boxes untril they were retired...........

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 13, 2025 10:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Same location, same gloomy day in 1952 (we are looking north from Bloomfield Avenue)

A long and colorful era was indeed ending............Sad

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?116985

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 13, 2025 10:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Around 1916, PS built a small fleet of open cars in their Plank Road (Newark) shops.

These single-ended cars were unique in that they featured fixed, forward-facing seating instead of benches, and could be operated by a one-man crew.

The last of these unique cars ran during the summer season of 1937; ASVs ran beneath the Penn Station platforms until 1948.............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?118340

(courtesy: nycsubway.org_

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 13, 2025 10:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

As can be seen here in this 1932 photo, PS's PLANK ROAD shops was also the location of a busy carbarn, serving several Newark-area routes........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?116998

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

The 1600-series cars seen here were then among the oldest cars in the PS fleet, dating back prior to 1910.

The last were retired when the ASVs began coming on-line in late 1935/1936.............

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 7:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Definitely a "garden spot" for trolley and transit enthusiasts. . .
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 10:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cyberider wrote:
Definitely a "garden spot" for trolley and transit enthusiasts. . .


Cyberider:

Indeed!

Bt the late 1930s, PS's sprawling Passic Wharf facility stopped being used for repairs/rebuilding/painting, and, instead, became a repository for hundreds of retired streetcars awaiting scrapping (recall, at that time, most car lines were going over to bus and ASV)

Local streetcar buffs were referring to PW as "The Slaugterhouse". Sad

Last cars scrapped before the facility closed in 1943 were a few stragglers from the famed 3500 series; older buses were also scrapped there.

By the late 1940s/early 1950s, FEDERAL (scrapyard) of Newark became the location where the remaining PS streetcars, ASVs, and older buses were scrapped.....NOT a pleasant sight, to be sure....... Sad

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 10:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Through the 1920s, PS operated the "Fast Line" between the PS Terminal in Newark and Trenton; the 3500s were FAST.....these big, handsome cars (which also ran in MU trains during rush hours) could reach speeds up to 75 MPH!

By the Depression, the "Fast Line" was now downgraded to a "cut back shuttle", running with a few "Compromise roof" cars converted into gas-electrics); abandonment was not that away.

One half of the 3500 series-fleet was assigned to the busy "HUDSON RIVER" line, between the Edgewater Ferry Terminal in Paterson; they ran in MU trains during rush hours through the 1920s.

Later, the cars were stripped of their MU gear; these hardworkig cars dominated the line (BERGEN Division) until buses took over in 1938.

These two photos date to 1916, when the PS Terminal opened, and "FAST LINE" service began.

Buses used the Terminal into the early 1970s (upper level only); the lower level closed in the late 1960s.

Just look at those PROUD and DAPPER PS trolleymen....indeed QUITE proud of their jobs! :wink:NJ

"NYO"

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?117021

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?117016

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 10:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

In this timeless circa-1935 photo, we see a "one man open" running on Route #25 (converted to ASV in 1937) in downtown Newark; the famed, long-established (now long-gone) "BAMBERGER'S" Department Store ("Bams" to locals!) is seen in the background.

Also note the screened-in sides of the car, indeed something that would not be found on a "conventional" open car............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?118341

Courtesy: nycsubway.org)

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 10:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is a VERY rare photo (circa-1940) of the interior of the Bell Street (Montclair) carbarn on Bloomfield Avenue, serving cars of the "29" subway-surface line.

Note the switches in the foreground, very rare INSIDE a carbarn (you are looking south towards Bloomfield Avenue in this photo)..........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?118324

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 4:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here we see the busy PSNJ Broadway terminal in Paterson, back in 1937.

Several PS streetcar/bus/ASV lines terminated here over the years; on the left, a white-flagged railfan special, a 3500-series car, (signed "HUDSON RIVER") is ready to be on its way, carrying a load of well-dressed traction buffs.

Another "HUDSON RIVER" car can be seen on the right (this was one of several lines that then passed through my town)

As can be seen in this photo, those YELLOW "Z"-types were BIG and FEARSOME; drivers had to be TOUGH indeed to handle these gas-driven beasts! Wink

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https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?117018

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 9:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very nostalgic shots!
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 9:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cyberider:

Indeed "nostalgic"!

So much seen in those old photos has since vanished.

I'd mentioned the "HUDSON RIVER" line (BERGEN Division); this busy line whitch stretched from the 125th Street Ferry in Edgewater to Paterson was replaced by buses in late 1938; a few weeks later, the last car line to enter Bergen County (the inter-divisional "PALISADE" line", which was based out of the West New Yorj carbarn) was also converted.

For many years, the buses that replaced the "HUDSON RIVER" line cars were numbered "B-1"; today, the it is the "751" and only operates once and hour or so.

This used to be a very popular line with shoppers heading out to Bergen Mall and Garden State Plaza (Mom and I used this line often, many years ago); I last rode this line over 25 years ago, when ex-NJDOT Flex New Looks were still being used............

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 9:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The "49 UNION" streetcar/ASV line (the first line to operate in North Jersey, in September 1935).........

This line was also PS's longest ASV line; it stretched 20 MILES from downtown Newark westward to Bound Brook, requiring nearly 2 1/2 hours for an end-to-end-trip.

Motormen/drivers enjoyed a well-deserved "rest stop" at eagh end of the line; the busy, lengthy line then served Newark's downtown business district, a number of suburban areas, and areas that were still semi-rural.

This ASV was also unique that it once also utilized private ROW along the western end of the route.

This was an "inter-divisional" line, serving both the ESSEX and the CENTRAL Divisions.

Like all other (ESSEX/CENTRAL Division) ASV lines, the "49" was replaced by diesel buses in 1948.

The HUDSON Division lines had been converted the previous year...........

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 15, 2025 11:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Newton Avenue carbarn/yards (Newark), 1930.

This is a particularly interesting photo; note the "interurban-ish" cars with the railroad roofs; these interesting cars were the "low 3500s".

These handsome cars were originally assigned to the BERGEN Division.

The "high" 3500s were, interestingly enough, conventional deck roof cars.........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?117033

(courtesy: nycsubwqay.org)

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 8:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"Loyalty"................

Just has PSNJ was steadfastly loyal to YELLOW COACH through the 1930s and into the 1940s, the massive operator was just as steadfastly loyal to GM, into the TNJ era of the early 1970s.

One interesting exception was the small group of ACF-BRILL C-44 suburbans purchased in 1947; these handsome buses were indeed in the ultra-minority in an all-GM fleet.

After several years of service, these gas-powered buses went to DE CAMP, lasting into the 1960s; DE CAMP had a number of C-44s on their roster..................

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