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Did you work for it when it was still Public Service??

I think someone said this before, but Newark, and most of Northern New Jersey, used to have a massive trolley network in the first half of the 20th century. Unfortunately, after World War II, most of them were replaced by bus routes, leaving the Newark City Subway as the only survivor until 2000, when NJ Transit opened a new trolley network in Hudson County. Around the same time, the old trolley cars on this line were replaced by new Light Rail Vehicles, and the subway was later expanded with a new line running through downtown Newark between Penn Station and Broad Street Station.

The 7 line served as the trunk line to bring the rest of the lines downtown without clogging up the street area! I think something like eight different routes branched off till the PCC cars arrived in the 1950s

Remember when the ride from Penn to Broad Street was run by minibuses!

There's actually less brush and grass now than before

@@JoeyDNetsfan Yes, I've seen the more recent pictures of the system.

It had a San Francisco vintage cablecar, coin fare slot machine (and boardwalk amusement park ride) charm. Yet the new cars are high, wide, and easy step in and out, and a voiceover automated AI nanny voice preannounces each stop. Ultra quiet and no wobble.

why didn't they have a line out to the airport? I bet a line to Port Newark would generate a lot of traffic too.

@@henryostman5740 years ago there was a plan called the "Newark Elizabeth Rail Link" which would have connected downtown Newark with the airport, part of the seaport, Jersey Gardens and midtown Elizabeth, then out to Cranford on the old CNJ right of way. The only thing that became of it was the Broad Street "extension", basically a shuttle between Penn Station and Broad Street Station. The rest of the plan has pretty much faded away.

In recent years modern lines have extended and expanded in downtown Newark.

Newark has trolley lines that ran from downtown up into suburban Irvington, Maplewood and South Orange. The tracks are still down just covered by gravel. As a matter of fact one of the old station is still standing on South Orange Ave on the border of Newark and South Orange. The 7 Line of Newark City Subway was designed to bring people who lived in Bloomfield and Belleville to downtown.

@@a.b.sproductionsllc Is there a map of what the full network looked like?

@@a.b.sproductionsllc 'The board of Newark and South Orange'? I assume you mean 'border'.

@@NYRNGR1 Minor typo 🙄

Thanks!

That line is classic too and they have retroffited the seventy year old cars with A/C!

Joe, that's an editing trick. That shot was actually a PCC coming the other way (outbound) up to the Orange Street crossing, and that's a switchover track you see the car going past. It's visible again a few seconds later as the car crosses Orange Street. This was my neighborhood stop when I was a kid.

Youre correct and very observant!

@@pierredubois719 Orange St. was my stop, also, for many years. I lived right around the corner on First St. After my entire neighborhood was razed to build Rt. 280, my house was only house left standing on my block.

It was the Morris Canal before it was the Newark City Subway.

1982 actually it says so in the end of the video this video is almost 40 years old

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I read that a few are used in San Fransisco, and I know that one is being restored at the Seashore Trolley Museum in Maine.

They were sold, still in use somewhere ifnot mistaken.

It depends what era you're talking about. In the first half of the 20th century, most of North Jersey had a massive trolley network. Most of the lines were replaced by busses in the 50s, and by the time this was shot, this was the only surviving line. Since then, two new lines have been built: the Broad Street Extension, which runs through downtown Newark between Broad Street Station and Penn Station, and the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail, which runs on the West Bank of the Hudson River, linking the cities of North Bergen, Union City, Weehawken, Hoboken, Jersey City, and Bayonne.

Judging by the footage, it was probably shot on a silent 8MM camera.