Atlantic City 250 moves

Thanks to Bill Wall of Branford, who sends word that Atlantic City 250 has been donated by that organization to the North Jersey Electric Railway Historical Society. As shown above, the car has been moved to an industrial property in Piscataway, where it joins several other cars including Public Service Coordinated Transport 2651 and a couple of Newark subway work cars purportedly under the ownership of the United Railroad Historical Society. (I should mention that NJERHS and URHS are related but I'm not precisely sure how, so NJERHS may hold title to those work cars as well.)

Car 250, for its part, is quite historic. It was built during WWI for shipyard service on the Southwestern, which I believe was in Philadelphia, and a few years later was sold to the Ocean Electric Railway. So far as I know, this makes it the only extant car from the long-gone network of streetcar lines that once existed on Long Island east of the New York city limits (EDIT: Jeff Hakner points out that, in fact, Brooklyn Rapid Transit 1792 was leased to New York & Long Island Traction from 1922 to 1924 so car 250 is one of two). In 1928 it went to Atlantic City, eventually ending its career there in 1955 and going to the nascent Trolley Museum of New York. That organization saw its collection move to a number of different places during the next thirty years and car 250 suffered grievously from the outdoor and unprotected storage. In 2007 it was deaccessed by TMNY and Branford acquired it, in part to prevent it from being scrapped, and moved it to an off-site storage location. It has now found a home back in New Jersey as the only non-PSCT car in the NJERHS collection. This is also the latest example of Branford's willingness to transfer cars to homes at other museums, a trait which isn't always common in traction preservation.