|
|
|
| Trolley Display Building, 2005 (John Smatlak photo) | In Service, 12/21/1906 (Nathan Zapler collection) |
| Car Number | 3 | Car Builder | Niles Car and Manufacturing Company |
| Year Built | 1905 | Year Acquired | 1999 |
| Type | DE Interurban Combine | Seats | XX |
| Length | XX'X" | Width | X'XX" |
| Height | XX'X" | Weight | XX,XXX lbs (XX tons) |
| Max Speed | XX mph | Status | Stored inoperable, Trolley Display Building |
This wonderfully decrepit wood car body represents one-half of the passenger fleet of the tiny (4.75 miles) Jersey Shore & Antes Fort Railroad. The company itself lasted little more than 20 years (1904-1925), but the real story here is the car body, not the operator.
When the company folded, its owners took the cars to a site along nearby Pine Creek and fashioned a residence from them. Thus saved from the scrapper, the cars sat until June 1972, when Hurricane Agnes brought extensive flooding to the area. Down Pine Creek they floated, coming to rest near a railroad bridge, which badly damaged them. Discovered by Jeff Pritchard, who worked on the body and saved it from destruction, and later moved to facilities of Paul Vassallo, number 3 survived. Mr. Vassallo made the car available to the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum in 1999.
Click on the thumbnails below for larger photos (will open in new window):
 |
|
|
|
| #3 with a work train led by #2 behind it. (Nathan Zapler collection) |
Current interior of #3 (John Smatlak photo) |
Current interior of #3 (John Smatlak photo) |
Last updated October 17, 2005
All content copyright © 1996-2005, Pennsylvania Trolley
Museum. All rights reserved.
