In
its heyday, PUBLIC SERVICE COORDINATED TRANSPORT of New Jersey operated
2500 trolleys over 900 miles of track, carrying more than 400 million
passengers a year.
This
program, comprised of extremely rare archive film footage, offers a
tour of several Union, Essex, and Hudson County lines, including the
South Kearney, Jackson, Union City, 21-Orange, 23-Central Avenue, and
29-Bloomfield Avenue routes, with additional scenes of the Newark
trolley subway (Route 7).
You'll
also visit the unique trolley elevated line, which extended from
Hoboken Terminal to Sip Avenue in Jersey City. Trackside and onboard
views are presented. Additional scenes include scrapping of the trolleys
in 1949 and a section on the dual-powered (electric and internal
combustion) All-Service Vehicles.
QUEENS
TROLLEYS offers nostalgic scenes of trolley operations in Queens
County, New York City. Filmed from the late 1930s to the early 1950s,
you'll see rare footage of three interesting lines:
New
York & Queens County Traction Co. includes views of the Woodside
car house, Flushing-Jamaica line, Cemetery route, and the College Point
line and ferry. Scenes at Northern Blvd. and Main St. in Flushing are a
highlight, and you'll enjoy rustic views of sparsely-populated Jamaica
with trolleys running on a grassy private right-of-way!
Manhattan
& Queens Traction Co. depicts the Queens Blvd. Line to Jamaica and
the Long Island City car house. See trolleys running underneath the
concrete arches of the Flushing elevated line!
Queensboro
Bridge Railway Co. has views of the famous Manhattan-Queens route with
the 500- and 600- series trolleys. Cars stopped on the bridge and
passengers could take an elevator to Roosevelt Island.This short but
interesting route was the last operating trolley line in New York State.
