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257: 301: 322: 213: 297:. The portion from Hoboken Terminal to Palisade Avenue opened January 25, 1886, under cable power. The extension to Newark Ave opened June 19, 1892, with electric cars, passengers changing at Palisade Avenue. Through electric service began in December 1892. Within the next few years North Hudson's streetcar lines were converted to electric trolley operation, and ramps were constructed at Palisade Avenue and Newark Avenue so that trolleys could go up onto the elevated railway. It was then operated by trolleys until it closed in 1949. 121: 129: 22: 195:
The oldest predecessor line of North Hudson County Railway opened 1861. Three companies were consolidated in 1874 to form the North Hudson County Railway Company. North Hudson acquired the Pavonia Horse Railroad Company in 1891, opened the Hudson & Bergen Traction Company in 1893, and opened the
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View toward Palisade Ave at Ferry Street in Jersey City Heights showing a former trolley house (right, now offices), station house (left, now a supermarket), and former PSE&G building (center, now residences called Trolley
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North Hudson County Railway included 12.75 miles (20.52 km) of at-grade and 1.25 miles (2.01 km) of elevated trackage. Bonn was always involved in other road and real estate projects in the county. He resided in
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who became the first President in 1865 and served for 26 years until his death, and eventually taken over by the
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Trolleys carried passengers from the Edgewater Ferry Terminal up the cliffs to the amusement park and beyond.
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wagon lifts were built in 1893. The Hoboken lift travelled from near the foot of
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at Weehawken to meet the streetcar line that travelled along a trestle to a
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and beyond. Part of the system near 14th Street's Wing Viaduct is a
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before and after the start of the 20th century. It was founded by
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in Hoboken, the line ran west and with a series of trestles and
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Pershing Road
Weehawken Terminal
streetcar
Hudson County
Bergen County, New Jersey
Hillric J. Bonn
Public Service Railway
Hudson Palisades
Bergen Hill
funicular wagon lifts
inclined elevated railway
elevator
viaducts
Weehawken

funicular
Paterson Plank Road

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