Jersey Shore car identified

 

The Jersey Shore Historical Society in Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania (no, not New Jersey) has posted some information on its Facebook page (no log-in required) about Jersey Shore Street Railway 14. This is the single-truck streetcar body that has been at the Peter Herdic Transportation Museum and was only added to the PNAERC list about three months ago (see here).

The post from JSHS is quite interesting. The gist is that they are acquiring the car from the Peter Herdic museum and plan on restoring it over the next few years. So that's good news, and once the car is physically moved I'll change over its ownership on the PNAERC list. But they also include some interesting information on the car's history. Most notably, I now know its number: JSR 14. Per a previous email from Matt Nawn, I knew that the car was part of the JSSR 14-16 series but didn't know which car it was. Matt reported that JSSR 14 would have earlier been Philadelphia Rapid Transit 86 (sold to JSSR at an unknown date along with PRT 939 and 942) and would have then been numbered JSSR 101 until it was rebuilt - again at an unknown date - as a one-man car and renumbered 14. So there are still plenty of unknowns about the car's history, and the automatically-generated list of its past owners on the PNAERC roster is out of order because there are so many missing dates, but this helps fill in some pretty big gaps.

Finally, the JSHS post has some nice photos of the car before it was tarped, including the one at the top of this post. For a body, it looks like it's in decent condition, or at least it was when the photos were taken.