6-18003 wrote:
Can someone save and repost the photos here?
Thanks
Thanks
Let's see if this will work.
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| Author: | JayZee [ Tue Oct 09, 2018 11:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Passenger car found in house in NJ during demo needs a home |
Saw this on fb. A wooden passenger car who knows how old. They are getting very hard to find, and it must be worth saving. Might be a good project for operations like Strasburg with historic wooden passenger cars. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_ ... =832474965 |
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| Author: | lmckay175 [ Tue Oct 09, 2018 11:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Passenger car found in house in NJ during demo needs a |
Any idea on the identity of this car? Given the arched windows and the deck roof visible, it almost looks like it could be a streetcar body with the end platforms missing. Whatever it is, though, it doesn't look like there's much left to save. |
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| Author: | softwerkslex [ Wed Oct 10, 2018 1:34 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Passenger car found in house in NJ during demo needs a |
Could be some good paint samples on that body. |
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| Author: | J3a-614 [ Wed Oct 10, 2018 1:41 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Passenger car found in house in NJ during demo needs a |
I'm inclined to agree it's the remains of an old streetcar. Besides the windows and the deck roof, the car seems a bit small, particularly in width (based on the sizes of the people in the interior shots). It also appears to have curved lower sides, a common characteristic of trolleys, but much less common, as far as I know, on railroad equipment. It even looks like a part of the roof to the platform, and a set of doors, with some door hardware, is visible in one of the photographs. Some of it could be considered worth saving, as a "lesson" exhibit on car construction, though a full restoration to something operable would be very long and arduous. We know know anything about its identity, builder, or a lot of other details. |
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| Author: | TrainDetainer [ Wed Oct 10, 2018 4:09 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Passenger car found in house in NJ during demo needs a |
The lower sides don't look curved enough to me to be a streetcar. I'm not on FB so I don't know where in Jersey, but it looks more like a 9th Ave Elevated car to me. If so it could date to around 1870. https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/The_9th_ ... ds_Shuttle |
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| Author: | lmckay175 [ Wed Oct 10, 2018 6:33 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Passenger car found in house in NJ during demo needs a |
TrainDetainer wrote: The lower sides don't look curved enough to me to be a streetcar. I'm not on FB so I don't know where in Jersey, but it looks more like a 9th Ave Elevated car to me. If so it could date to around 1870. https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/The_9th_ ... ds_Shuttle I hadn't considered that rapid transit cars had deck roofs too - it certainly could be one. Either way, though, deck roofs were a characteristic found almost solely on electric cars. |
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| Author: | 6-18003 [ Wed Oct 10, 2018 9:11 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Passenger car found in house in NJ during demo needs a |
Can someone save and repost the photos here? Thanks |
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| Author: | J3a-614 [ Wed Oct 10, 2018 11:57 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Passenger car found in house in NJ during demo needs a |
6-18003 wrote: Can someone save and repost the photos here? Thanks Let's see if this will work.
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| Author: | J3a-614 [ Wed Oct 10, 2018 12:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Passenger car found in house in NJ during demo needs a |
Looks like it did!! Any other thoughts on the possible origin of this car? |
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| Author: | JayZee [ Wed Oct 10, 2018 1:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Passenger car found in house in NJ during demo needs a |
That makes me think, what else survived other then the body? Frame, trucks, etc under the car? That would help determine identity and what could be done with it. |
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| Author: | 6-18003 [ Wed Oct 10, 2018 1:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Passenger car found in house in NJ during demo needs a |
Looks like a trolley to me. I can't get a window count with the way the photos are angled. This trolley from Keyport NJ came up in a quick search. 
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| Author: | 6-18003 [ Wed Oct 10, 2018 1:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Passenger car found in house in NJ during demo needs a |
I'm leaning towards a 1900~ Laclede |
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| Author: | 6-18003 [ Wed Oct 10, 2018 1:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Passenger car found in house in NJ during demo needs a |
This is Colorado Springs #59, a 1901 Laclede. Note the short panel on the leading end of the platform. 
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| Author: | lmckay175 [ Wed Oct 10, 2018 1:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Passenger car found in house in NJ during demo needs a |
In the comments section on Facebook, Frank Hicks has identified the carbody as a Trenton streetcar, Built by Brill either in 1911 or 1914. A link to what the car would have looked like: http://newdavesrailpix.com/odds/nj/htm/trt01.htm Backing this up is evidence in one of the pictures, where a "2xx", possibly "26x" or 28x" can be seen under the paint (these Trenton streetcars were numbered in the 200s.) |
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| Author: | 6-18003 [ Wed Oct 10, 2018 2:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Passenger car found in house in NJ during demo needs a |
Frank would know. She's missing a lot but I assume she is the only Trenton car left. |
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