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By Rail to the Boardwalk by Richard Gladulich
By Rail to the Boardwalk by Richard Gladulich
Hard cover with dust jacket
Copyright 1986
331 pages indexed
Contents:
CHAPTER 1 A Railroad to Nowhere 11
CHAPTER 2 The Growth Years 31
CHAPTER 3 The Expansion Years 59
CHAPTER 4 State Regulation and Federal Control 93
CHAPTER 5 Facing the Highway Challenge 123
CHAPTER 6 Merger, Depression and War 161
CHAPTER 7 The Long Ride Downhill 203
CHAPTER 8 The Final Years 253
CHAPTER 9 Atlantic City Trolley Operations 287
APPENDIX 306
LOCOMOTIVE ROSTERS AND LOCATION MAPS
BIBLIOGRAPHY 326
INDEX 329
For decades Atlantic City and the South Jersey coast reigned as America's summer playground and in the pre-superhighway era it was not only fashionable but a matter of necesto go by train.
Thus, South Jersey was a battleground for the tourist and commuter dollar. The chief combatants were the mighty Pennsylvania Railroad and its subsidiary, the West Jersey & Seashore, and the rival Reading and its Atlantic City Railroad af. They fought fiercely with fine trains, freschedules, high-speed trackage and faster - ever faster - timings. Steam was king, and the Reading's distinctive Camelbacks ruled the rails.
Of course it had to end. In the Depression the PRR and Reading joined together to form the Pennsylvania-Reading-Seashore Lines to do batwith the automobile and eliminate duplicate services. But the downhill slide continued, with only World War II providing a temporary lull in the decline.
PRSL carried commuters, too, many of them in the WJ&S' venerable third-rail electric cars. But the electrics were an early victim of the au, and with deficits skyrocketing, AtlanCity no longer a lure for tourists, the PRSL finally threw in the towel. It ended with a few, forlorn Budd cars plying the once-manicured trackage, a great railroad plant now redundant.
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