Yes, guardrails...you can see such anyplace there are trolley tracks and thier traditional tight, tight curves...light rail the same...ride NJT's HBLRT out of Hoboken and you'll see how the art is practiced.
Yes, again, Public Service Coordinated Transport logos all! Lasted on the buses and Newark City Subway right up to NJT takeover! Still can catch one on a NCS station platform if you look close! White circle, blue triangle with gold or black lettering in the blue line. A blue or black circle around the white. Different times, different variations....
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Erie Lackawanna Complete and total guess - but with the curve being so tight, I wonder if it's designed to held the flanges on the track (sort of a guard rail)?
Complete and total guess - but with the curve being so tight, I wonder if it's designed to held the flanges on the track (sort of a guard rail)?
I agree.....That's a good possibility. I wondered that too.
Quentin
Modelcar BNSFwatcherCool, but the "Civil Defense" logo on the car scared me a bit. This, of course, was just after WW II. ....Am I reading this wrong...."after WWII"....in 1937.....?
BNSFwatcherCool, but the "Civil Defense" logo on the car scared me a bit. This, of course, was just after WW II.
....Am I reading this wrong...."after WWII"....in 1937.....?
It looks to me like they are similar but completely unrelated logos.
The are both a triangle inside a circle, but the CD symbol is clearly different.
The Public Service symbol appears in image as early as 1932. It had to come into existance sometime between 1924 and 1932.
Civil Defence - http://www.dakotacollectibles.com/aoc/TreasureChest/dccat_stock_detail.asp?stockcode=EQ0070
Public Service - http://www.flickr.com/photos/23021987@N06/3237098873/
BNSFwatcher She had a white helmet, armband, and a wooden clacker, all with the Civil Defense logo on them. I don't know where she looked for incoming enemy planes.
Many towns {big and small}, built towers or installed outposts on top of buildings to "spot" enemy aircraft. Cardboard silhouettes were avail. of outlines of such planes to help to ID such. This during WWII period.
Modelcar Very interesting photos.....and very clear for being of such age. Wonder why the 2nd rail {left side}, on curve of first photo.....?
Very interesting photos.....and very clear for being of such age.
Wonder why the 2nd rail {left side}, on curve of first photo.....?
Yar! That's the Public Service logo. My mother was an Air Raid Warden in Eastchester, NY during WW II. She had a white helmet, armband, and a wooden clacker, all with the Civil Defense logo on them. I don't know where she looked for incoming enemy planes. Our roof was slate, without a "widow's walk". She, certainly, didn't go up on the roof of our Garrison Colonial! Anyhoo, she never spotted a Hinkel, Messerschmidt, or Mitsubushi! Maybe they just went to someones basement and had a few tods. That's plausable. More productive, too.
I still don't know if the PSCT had a monopoly in New Jersey. I never saw any trolleys without the scary logo, out in "Mosquito Land".
Hays
Yes. All the cars have the Public Coordinated Transport logo.
BNSFwatcher Cool, but the "Civil Defense" logo on the car scared me a bit. This, of course, was just after WW II. ***!
Cool, but the "Civil Defense" logo on the car scared me a bit. This, of course, was just after WW II. ***!
According to the data on the link, the photo was taken on June 6, 1937. I'd guess that logo on the side of the car is something other than "Civil Defense"; maybe the transit company???
Mike
Sorry I can't help you. I was born in Plainfield (please don't tell anyone) in 1938. We lived in Plainfield, East Orange, Metuchen, and Seaside, but escaped when I was 3 y.o.a.. Later we visited aunts, uncles, and cousins in Boonton, Florham Park, and Madison from the "right side" of the Hudson. Gas, in Jersey, was 19 cents, 2-cents cheaper than NY. I only took the DL&W when I went solo. My only trip on a PSCT trolley was to an amusement park (not Pallisades, but it was a great place!) in the Oranges, perhaps. Cool, but the "Civil Defense" logo on the car scared me a bit. This, of course, was just after WW II. ***! The PSCT trolleys were ubiquitous. Did they have a monopoly in the state? At least our metro-NY trolleys ran under different names, no matter who owned them. Thanks for the memories! I look forward to more info.
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