A New Home for Public Service 2651

Today Public Service Coordinated Transport 2651, one of only two standard cars from the Public Service Railway system in New Jersey and the last intact example of the line's distinctive "compromise roof" cars, was transported to its new home at Branford. It's shown above touching down in front of Sprague in an image from the North Jersey Electric Railway Historical Society's Facebook page.Car 2651 was built in the PSR shops in 1917, during the war, and remained in service - I believe mostly in and around Newark - until it was retired in 1946, as the PSCT rail system was rapidly contracting. Its body was sold to a person in Long Valley, NJ, where it was discovered by fans in 1973 and purchased. The NJERHS was the car's custodian from that year until the present, through a 1974 move from Long Valley to Ringoes, on the property of the Black River & Western; a 2000 move to Phillipsburg; and a move around a decade ago to the Kinkisharyo plant in Piscataway, where the car has resided for…

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