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Posted by Joe on Wed Sep 21 15:44:51 2011, in response to Re: Old Hoboken Elevated service?, posted by Michael Wares on Wed Sep 21 14:58:39 2011. Thanks for exploring this topic. Please allow some narrative from someone who enjoyed riding this el as a youngster, age about ten, exploration led by his Dad. In my postwar era, the upstairs loop terminal in Hoboken clearly had seen better days. However, the Jackson car left there, bringing us to truly friendly cousins on Winfield Avenue, Greenville. The car would make two or three stops at low-level wooden platforms above Observer Highway, then climb that awesome trestle to the heights, aiming straight up a cliff. (The ascent is again replicated by an elevator at HBLR Ninth Street station.)---- At the top, several routes would immediately take a small drop to Palisades Avenue: the busy Union City line, the Weehawken route, and I think (but could be wrong) part-time routes labeled Summit and Oakland. Edward Hamm's book, The Public Service Trolley Lines in New Jersey, excels in thoroughness and presentation. ----- Our Jackson car would turn south over Central Avenue, adjacent to a reservoir. (At this point I took some photos with my new FedFlash camera, blurry results.) ----- Descending near the jail, it would wind to the loop at Journal Square and the Hudson Tubes. We then proceeded south on Bergen Avenue, zig-zagging onto Jackson Avenue (now Martin Luther King Drive), go through a few signaled passing sidings and alight a few blocks before Gates Avenue. Somewhere the operator flipped the sign to "Pay as You Leave." ----- Route 87 bus now takes about 46 minutes for the trip. I wonder whether the el made the streetcar quicker. ----- One night the pole jumped near Communipaw Avenue. Dad remarked that streetcars entering Union City had to carry a lit red lantern high in the rear window for safety if that happened. Joe |
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