Trolley Treasures The Wartime Years in New Jersey Vol II by Mankoff & Wrege SC

Description: RailroadTreasures offers the following item: Trolley Treasures The Wartime Years in New Jersey Vol II by Mankoff & Wrege SC Trolley Treasures The Wartime Years in New Jersey Vol II by AW Mankoff & CD Wrege Public Service Coordinated transport cars 2700-2775,2800-2812 (compromise roof) Hudson County Elevated structures Soft Cover OVer 400 never published photos 148 pages Notice the damage to the binding Copyright 1988 CONTENTS Major Facilities Mentioned in This Book Essex Division: Roseville Car House Located at 14th Street and Orange Street, straddling the Newark, East Orange city line. Central facility and storage yards for Orange, Central, and city subway line cars. Erie Loop and Yard Orange, N.J. at Main Street, opposite Erie Railroad Station. Overnight and weekend storage for Orange line cars. Mississippi Loop West Orange, N.J., Orange line. Montclair Car House (Bell Street) Maintenance and storage facility for Bloomfield line cars. Adjacent to Bell Street Loop, Montclair, N.J. Passaic Wharf Built as a barge wharf for trans-shipping gravel and other building and maintenance materials in 1914, located at intersection of Old Plank Road (Old Lincoln Highway) and Passaic River. Storage and scrapping facilities were added in 1918. No rail connection existed with PS Trolley lines after 1938. Caldwell Loop Western terminus of Bloomfield line. Newark City Subway Private right-of-way open-cut and tunnel, opened in 1935, leased by PSNJ until 1999. Still in operation. Hudson Division: Greenville Yard and Carhouse Bounded by Custer and Gates Ave., Jersey City, west of Bergen Street. Major maintenance and storage facility serving Oakland, Jackson, South Kearny, and Federal lines. Union City Car House Served Union City and Summit lines, located at 40th Avenue and 22nd Street, Union City. Hoboken Terminal Elevated Structure located at Hudson River in Hoboken, N.J. eastern terminus of Hudson County lines. Bus, Trolley, and New York Ferry lines coverged here. West Shore Terminal (Weehawken) Directly north of present Lincoln Tunnel, on river at Pershing Road. Galley: Shots too good to leave out Appendix: Vol 2 The Future of the Electric Railway The First Overhead-Propelled Street Railway The Weiss System of Street Car Motors Harpers Weekly Historical Notes: The Hoboken Terminal History of Essex and Hudson Counties New Jersey Trolley, fun park, are both gone Bucket Seats Prove Popular PREFACE It was an exciting time to be alive--and to be fifteen years old. The world was changing in ways that we could not begin to guess. It was happening all around us. We were caught in a vortex of monstrous events--Pearl Harbor, Hitler's sweep through Europe and his early success in Russia, Britain's defeat and isolation as the Nazi banners flew over Paris and the channel coast. The war impacted on all of us. Not a one of us was not caught up in it, not a one of us escaped the magnetic allure of patriotic ardor, the need to go off and prove ourselves as men. Heady stuff for fifteen year-olds! There were lengthy discussions, frequent arguments, about quitting school at sixteen, to join the Merchant Marine, to see some action, before it was over--at a time when tankers were exploding only a few miles east of Sandy Hook. A fifteen year-old, when his country is at war, sees only his cousins and his older classmates going off to do what he so desperately wants to do. His pain, his impatience, then, lies with his youth. The gold stars in his neighbors' windows are impersonal. Death has not yet taught its lessons. Never mind that Henry Luft, the banker's son across the street, is now a gold star. Never mind that Doug Rand or Jimmy Musano or Johnny Casler are gone and will never come back. So, you are fifteen years old. Your parents insist that you finish high school. Seventeen--and June of 1944--graduation day--seem a million years away. What do you do, then, to ease the agony of waiting? You do the scrap drives. You attend Civil Air Patrol classes on navigation. And you have your birthday Kodak, and a friend, Charley, who has a Kodak but also has a cellar darkroom where he can develop negatives and print photographs. You both share an interest in trolley cars. Everyone knows that, after the war, they'll be no more. Though historical urgency was of little concern in our conscious minds, the pull from the future nonetheless took firm hold. The results are documented in these volumes. In them, we share with you a world no longer with us, a tender and naive age that grew up overnight, born in the years folowing the "War to end all wars", weaned on the Great Depression, and then plunged into a global struggle beyond the wildest imagination. With all of this, who noticed the precipitous decline of light rail transit? Who cared, when the world itself was threatened? As the months passed, we were drawn into active service, with no grasp of what we had done, of the historical treasures we were accumulating. Forty years passed; the collection languished in one storage box after another, in New York, in Buffalo, in Chicago, in Northern Massachusetts, in Raleigh, in Tulsa, in Hollywood, in Monterey, and, finally, in Sacramento. The miracle is that it survived at all. Finally, with the renaissance of light rail, the rediscovery of our friendship, and the commitment of Railhead Publications, these volumes came into being. This is our legacy to those who shared those years with us, and to those who came long after and never knew the cars, the people, the events documented in these pages. Massive collection of black and white photos taken during World War II during the last days of New Jersey trolleys. The author was too young to join the military but not too young to spend his days pursuing trolley cars in the Essex and Hudson Divisions. Among the sights captured are the car houses (Roseville, Montclair, Greenville and Union City), the terminals (Hoboken and West Shore/Weehauken), the Loops (Caldwell, Mississippi, and Erie), the Newark subway and the Passaic Wharf. An invaluable reference work for any modeler or trolley buff All pictures are of the actual item. There may be reflection from the lights in some photos. We try to take photos of any damage. If this is a railroad item, this material is obsolete and no longer in use by the railroad. Please email with questions. Publishers of Train Shed Cyclopedias and Stephans Railroad Directories. Large inventory of railroad books and magazines. Thank you for buying from us. Shipping charges US Shipments: Ebay will add $1.25 each additional items, there are a few exceptions. Ebay Global shipping charges are shown. 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