09-03-2017, 07:53 PM
Last Friday at work I came across the last remnants of the Public Service railways freight operation in union city NJ. I have posted some pics of the former car barn ( Now used by the town's DPW ) a few years back. I should grab another round of pics of it as the building is set for demolition.
This is the siding that I found
That small section of track is the siding of The Yardley soap factory. Between 6th and 7th streets on Palisade Ave.
I did a quick search on youtube and found a few videos on this trolley line. In the first one only the first few minutes or so is from the PS system in union city, the rest is from elsewhere, But it does give you a good look at the NYC terminal in Weehawken NJ. The second video is all PS in the north end of Hudson county.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZraaMXh3WS8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5COMjqDULX4
I scanned an old postcard that shows one of the trolleys in operation about two blocks from my company's shop.
A screenshot of a map of the location of the tracks, I had to shrink it down real small in order for it to fit in the 250kb requirement.
This is the siding that I found
That small section of track is the siding of The Yardley soap factory. Between 6th and 7th streets on Palisade Ave.
I did a quick search on youtube and found a few videos on this trolley line. In the first one only the first few minutes or so is from the PS system in union city, the rest is from elsewhere, But it does give you a good look at the NYC terminal in Weehawken NJ. The second video is all PS in the north end of Hudson county.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZraaMXh3WS8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5COMjqDULX4
I scanned an old postcard that shows one of the trolleys in operation about two blocks from my company's shop.
A screenshot of a map of the location of the tracks, I had to shrink it down real small in order for it to fit in the 250kb requirement.
My other car is a locomotive, ARHS restoration crew