by bellstbarn
Thanks to help I received on this website, I enjoyed a trip on NJT 81 from Exchange Place last week, retracing much of the Greenville Public Service route. I found a modern bus garage on the site (west side of Old Bergen Road, Greenville), matching my memory of Greenville Yard in the 1940's. Today, I found my copy of Mankoff and Wrege's "Trolley Treasures: The Wartime Years in New Jersey, Vol. II." There are many shots of cars in Greenville Yard, but nothing about a car barn. Apparently, the cars were stored outdoors. Is my presumption correct?
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Not only is there a garage on the west side of Old Bergen Road nowadays, but there is outdoor storage of NJT buses in a lot on the east side.
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The authors' text (page 81) has a photo of a car in Greenville Yard captioned, "Barbed wire fencing, wartime security measure, kept out Axis spies and saboteurs, but not eager railfans." Shades of NJT and PATH photo psychosis: After the war, Dad went on a railfan trip to Western Electric, that rebuilt line out Federal Highway. At the end of the line, the fans snapped photos of the trolley car, only to have their film confiscated by the police.
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Not only is there a garage on the west side of Old Bergen Road nowadays, but there is outdoor storage of NJT buses in a lot on the east side.
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The authors' text (page 81) has a photo of a car in Greenville Yard captioned, "Barbed wire fencing, wartime security measure, kept out Axis spies and saboteurs, but not eager railfans." Shades of NJT and PATH photo psychosis: After the war, Dad went on a railfan trip to Western Electric, that rebuilt line out Federal Highway. At the end of the line, the fans snapped photos of the trolley car, only to have their film confiscated by the police.