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New Jersey's Trolley Heritage

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New Jersey’s Trolley Heritage is a photographic essay of trolley cars that once served Atlantic City, Ocean City, and Wildwood, plus the modernized Newark City subway, along with the new Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Line and River Line.

From 1889 to 1955, electric trolley cars served commuters and vacationers in Atlantic City. Between 1938 and 1955, Atlantic City operated twenty-five streamlined Brilliners known as the Miss America Fleet, the largest fleet of these cars in service in the United States.

The Shore Fast Line connected Atlantic City via Pleasantville and Somers Point to Ocean City. A portion of the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines was used by the Shore Fast Line. Open summer cars operated in Wildwood until it closed in 1945. After trolley service ended in Atlantic City, Newark’s City Subway was New Jersey’s only remaining trolley line until New Jersey Transit opened the Hudson-Bergen Line in 2000, that by 2011, linked North Bergen with Hoboken, Jersey City, and Bayonne.

New Jersey’s Trolley Heritage documents an important part of the state’s trolley history including the River Line, which opened in 2004, connecting Camden with Trenton.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)
Kenneth C. Springirth, with a lifelong interest in rail transportation. Born and raised in the United States, he commuted to Drexel Institute of Technology (now Drexel University) in Philadelphia by trolley car, subway, and sometimes commuter train. His father was a trolley car motorman in Philadelphia, and his grandfather was a trolley car motorman in Washington D.C. A detailed researcher, Ken's interest in rail transportation by 2013 has culminated in writing 20 books on trolley car systems and railroads covering a variety of locations.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781634992244
FORMAT: Paperback
PUBLISHER: America Through Time
DATE: 7/27/2020
STATE: New Jersey
SERIES: America Through Time
IMAGES: 228
PAGES: 128
DIMENSIONS: 8.5 (w) x 11 (h)
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