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The Coast Cities Railway was the final manifestation of trolley service between Long Branch and Sea Girt, New Jersey. The electric trolley era in these coast cities began in 1888 and ended in 1931. The story is told in Joseph Eid’s book Trolleys in the Coast Cities (self-published in 1979). Nearly all of the photos here are from the from the collection of the North Jersey Chapter of the National Railroad Historical Society and are reproduced here with permission. Prints are for sale at Pebbles Train Store.

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Prologue: A Bradley Beach horsecar

A borrowed Bradley Beach horsecar in Neptune

Postcards

Sea Shore Electric Railway cars	Cookman Avenue and Main Street, Asbury Park; the car on the right is going to Belmar, the one on the left to the beach via the outer belt	The Bridge over Sunset Lake, Asbury Park	Main Street, Asbury Park
Railroad Square, Asbury Park	Cookman & Mattison Avenues, Asbury Park	Cookman Avenue, Asbury Park	8th Avenue, Asbury Park

More Scenes

Shark River	The Deal Lake bridge	Trolleys at the south end of the Deal Lake bridge
		The Deal Lake bridge closed
An Asbury Park street scene		Car vs. trolley in Spring Lake

Trolleys

Coast Cities Ry. no. 406	“New cars, better service”	Coast Cities Ry. no. 47	Car 67 and crew
Atlantic Coast Electric Ry. no. 27	Atlantic Coast Electric Ry. no. 15	Derelict 706	Another view of 706 derelict
Work car in the shops	Atlantic Coast Electric Ry. no. 210		Car 406

Open car 135	Car 102 at 16th Ave. in Belmar	Car 703 at North Long Branch
Car 304	Car 206 and crew	Open car 154

Postscript: Early Coast Cities Coaches (buses)

Bound for Fitkin Hospital and Corlies Avenue in Neptune City.

Bound for Belmar.

Double-deck bus no. 605 headed for Sea Girt.

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