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 the past few years. The car's restoration from a stripped hulk to a complete - and, as of recently, operating - car has taken 50 years, through various fits and starts. Its move to Branford will allow it to operate and carry passengers for the first time in 80 years.
The acquisition of car 2651 brings the Branford roster on PNAERC up to 92 cars and leaves NJERHS with five cars, including two Newark PCCs under tarps, the burned-out frame of a snow sweeper, a badly deteriorated "War Board" car, and the most distinctive of the lot, PSCT "El Camino" work car 5223. All except one of the PCCs are currently in Piscataway.
One final note: I don't know enough about 2651's history to say for certain, but I wonder whether its trip today to Branford is the first time in its 109-year history that it's ever left the state of New Jersey. There are more cars on PNAERC that have never crossed state lines than one might think, most of them homebuilt in the railway's shops, but it's still a small percentage overall.
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