I live in Minneapolis, which had a streetcar network with PCC cars before it closed in the 1950s and around 30 of the PCCs were given to NJ transit for the Newark City Subway. Even though they’re gone in NJ, you can still ride them at the streetcar museum here every weekend in the spring, summer, and fall. It’s always nice to hear their bell go through the neighborhood on a warm day while you’re at Lake Harriet right across the street.

As a child I loved buses and trains, but the Newark City Subway and Path Train were treats. Branch Brook Park to Downtown Newark, Newark Penn Station to 33rd St ❤️

These look like busses on train tracks. Look so enjoyable to ride!

I rode and loved these cars in the 1980's. I miss them but they were hot and noisy in the summer.

That is a really tight turn for a trolley loop.

Remember riding n the '70's. Was fun to see the old Public Service livery and logo from those days.

This is what happens the pcc cars ran from January 1954 to August 24 2001 then on August 27 2001 the Newark light rail began service

A cool retro look for the inercity subway' s.

Rode one of these recently in San Francisco. A number of these cars went there and were recently rebuilt entirely and are now running in active service about 20 of them were repainted into a heritage fleet of different transit system liveries including the original New Jersey Public Services Coordinated livery. They look wonderful I will post a vid soon

IRM (Illinois Railway Museum) has one of these PPC cars in their display buildings. I think it had the pantograph.

In memory of PCC Streetcar of New Jersey Transit: Newark Light Rail.

Boston still has there PCC cars in the mattapan-Ashmont red line they have ac and there still running good newark could have kept there PCC until 2010

Great video, I miss the Newark PCCs wished they kept just a few...

They were built to last!

Meanwhile, plenty of VW Bugs are missing their horns. Anyhoo, never got a chance to ride on the NJ Transit PCCs, but being from Philly, did get to ride them when SEPTA had them. Well the NJT cars are in San Fran (along with some of SEPTA's), and probably the good thing about it is that they chucked the crappy GE brake solenoids in favor of the more superior WABCO solenoids.

got a lot of Childhood memories in the late 90s riding this train 🚂

Love NJ Transits color scheme. Black and white.

PCC car number 7 is now at the New York State Transportation Museum south of Rochester New York. Come on up and ride it again!

This is awesome 😊

Nostalgia

I wish the PCCs could have lasted forever.

Had NJ Transit refurbished them to comply with Bush 41 American Disabilities Act of 1990 they would look like something identical to SEPTA 15 tram line and MBTA Ashmont PCC with air conditioning units on the rooftop and wheelchair lift.

I went to NYC in 1980 but didn't get to ride the trolley in Newark. I visited the Minnesota streetcar museum in 2009 but the PCC wasn't running that day. I am overdue for a visit to SF so I will try to catch one there on the 'F' line.

They should've kept a few for work or charter services

Remember when all the buses and the city subway were run by Public Service and the cars were gray and white with a dark blue stripe separating the colors.

great video

nice

It's crazy how this is actually standard gauge track.

Why get rid of perfectly good, working technology? Only thing these might've needed is an upgrade for full accessibility (which I think San Francisco handles with high-level platforms/ramps and gap fillers). Granted, that might've been expensive, but I suspect less expensive than replacing the fleet.

RIP Twin Towers

Thanks for the memories! I rode those PCC trolleys numerous times. I grew up in Newark and continue to work there. Love the tunnel shots. The best place to sit was either up front so you could look out the front window, or the very last seat so you get the amusement park ride with the bounce & sway! Have you shot the Newark Light Rail?

If I could ride this one more time

The last trolley car is gone at Grove Street

47 years (1954-2001)

They were replaced by the Kinkisharyo trains

At least we can still ride them in Philly and San Francisco.

I am from Brussels, Belgium, and enjoyed riding the Newark PCC cars ! Fantastic car ! Where are they now ?

Hello, I was wondering if I could get permission to use clips from this video? I am working on a documentary about transit proposals in New Jersey and this would be perfect for when I talk about Newark. You will be given full credit in the video of course.

Two weeks later the world went to Hell

Rip

19 years later, the world went to hell.

Why do most of the streetcars have a trolley cable AND a pantograph at the same time?

They weren't air conditioned nor ADA accessible but man, the system was so much faster back then. The cars were nice and speedy and they ran like clockwork, every couple of minutes during rush hour and even off peak service was pretty frequent. You had to ring for your stop like a bus and if nobody rang and nobody was at a stop, the car didn't even stop - it just kept moving. Sometimes you could get from Penn to Franklin in as little as ten minutes. The line has slowed down immensely since then. Yeah, the cars are ADA compliant but the AC in them sucks and they just lumber along, making several stop-and-proceeds along the way, not to mention the many penalty stops that one may encounter. A one way trip from Penn to Branch Brook can now take almost twenty minutes, and on weekends, forget it. Every 25 minutes; they might as well not even run it. And that Broad Street extension is useless, with a car every 30 minutes.A retrograde, if you ask me.

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