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Sometime during the 30's, a handsome 2200 series streetcar (one of the rehabbed "De Luxe" cars) is shown stopped on the outbound track of the Cedar St. Subway, signed for the "#27 MT. PROSPECT".

Note, also, the "PUBLIC SERVICE MYSTERY TROLLEY SPECIAL"placard on the front dash; from what I can see here, it looks as though some sort of a fan trip might have been taking place, perhaps not long before this line went to rubber......

http://www.shorelinetrolley.com/stm/uploads/tadgallery/medium/2013_07_21/5440_m_psc141.jpg

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Broad St. City Subway station, looking from inbound platform, 1965.

Look carefully through the pillars, and you can see the old surface car electric sign boxes still hanging from the ceiling; you can also just glimpse the change booth.

Not seen here (just in back of the outbound turnstile area) was an escalator(s)? that connected to the PS terminal.

After the last buses used the Terminal in the later 60's, this area was gated off; in the early 70's (when the former terminal was still standing) there was an old sign still in place that read; "ESCALATOR TO PUBLIC SERVICE TERMINAL") if I remember correctly.

I tried to take a picture of that sign back in 1972 with my trusty old KODAK Instamatic, but the flash was too weak.

No trace of this former entrance to the PS Terminal remain today; the old electric signboxes, likewise, are also long gone.

Most commuters passing through the "MILITARY PARK" (nee: "BROAD STREET") station today have not an inkling that, until the 1960's, they could make bus connections at a scaled-down Newark version of the PABT.

Fascinating urban archeology, for certain......

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?76105

(courtesy nycsubway.org)

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An interesting article from 1945; the two photos here are certainly of interest, recalling the bygone days when PSNJ dominated Newark both above and beneath its streets......

http://www.trolleybuses.net/psct/htm/usa_h_psct_misc_art_identifiesriders_194508_bt.htm

(courtesy: Tom'sTrolleybuses)

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A "Z" ASV on an unidentified route, sometime during the the 40's.

Note the complex ganglia of overhead wires; surely, PS was more than happy to be rid of the expense of maintaining them, once the ASV's were replaced by motor buses (certainly makes for a fascinating photo, though!).........

http://www.trolleybuses.net/psct/htm/usa_h_psct_yellow_012_newark_bv.htm

(courtesy: Tom'sTrolleybuses)