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Trolley Treasures. The Wartime in New Jersey. Volume II.
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Trolley Treasures. The Wartime in New Jersey. Volume II: Public Service Coordinated Tranport; Cars 2700 - 2775, 2800 -2812 (Compromise Roof); Hudson County Elevated Structures. By A[l].W.Mankoff and C.D. Wrege, Ph.D. [Canton, OH: Railhead Publications, 1988.] First edition thus. Oblong softcover, 8-1/2" x 11" wide. pp. [ii], 148, black-and-white photos, illustrations, map.
Useful photo documentation of the streetcar and trolley lines that once were the primary surface mass transportation, but fully replaced by buses after World War II.
Cover states: Over 400 Never-Published Photos!
There is no table of contents or index. There is a list on page [ii] titled: Major Facilities Mentioned in This Book.
Includes many photos of Hoboken including the elevated trestle at the southern end of Hoboken (and in an appendix at the end with other useful articles is a fascimile of a Jan. 29, 1950 newspaper article on the razing of the trestle) plus other shots.
Hoboken content on pages:
43-44
46
49
53
86-88
90-96
98
112-114
118-122
124-129
131-133
144
(Some photos of haymeets or wrecks are in this work, but none that appear to have happened in Hoboken.)
oblong 8vo softcover
2012.001.0018
2012.001
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Mankoff, A.W.Wrege, C.D., Ph.D./
1885 - 1950
0-912113-33-2
Date: 1988
Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2012-05-15