Jersey Shore streetcar added to list

Many thanks to Bill Wall, who has alerted me to an article written in the latest Friends of Philadelphia Trolleys newsletter by another friend of the blog, Matt Nawn. The article is about the discovery of a heretofore unknown streetcar that has been preserved by the Peter Herdic Transportation Museum in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The car, whose number is uncertain, was built in 1894 for the Electric Traction Company of Philadelphia (later Union Traction, later Philadelphia Rapid Transit) as a single-truck open car. Matt's article says that three PRT open cars numbered 86, 939, and 942 were sold at some point to the Jersey Shore Street Railway in Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania, where they became JSSR 101-103. Later still the cars were apparently rebuilt as closed cars and renumbered again as JSSR 14-16 (or I may have that renumbering backwards, I'm not positive). JSSR was abandoned in 1930 so this particular car, which is one of these three ex-PRT converted open cars, was retired no later than that year.

Its body has now shown up under a tarp on the lawn of the PHTM in Williamsport as shown above in a Google Street View image. The museum is city-owned, and seems to be well-funded, so perhaps a cosmetic restoration of this car is in store. As for me, I've added it to the list along with a note about its likely fleet number, but I'd also be interested in more information about it - like who built it and when it got sold to Jersey Shore. This information may simply not exist, but if anyone has better records on JSSR than I do (which doesn't say much) then any help is appreciated. Thank you!

I should also take a moment to point out that of all the small hamlets in Pennsylvania that once boasted electric railways, Jersey Shore really stands out for the number of its electric cars that are still around. Besides this new car - which admittedly is probably more significant as an early single-truck Philadelphia car than a Jersey Shore car - there's also JSSR single-truck closed car number 4, which is privately owned and undergoing restoration, and there's Jersey Shore & Antes Fort 3, an interurban car that ran out of the city and is now preserved at PTM.