Atlantic City Transportation #250 

• 1917

  • May 3, 1917: Ordered by the War Board for service during World War 1, this double ended, arch roofed car measures 34 feet 8 inches over its bumpers and is fitted with 2 Brill 77E1 trucks. Built by J.G. Brill of Philadelphia, it was among 30 cars included in orders 20292-20294, but the orders would not go to their original destinations.

• 1918

  • April 23, 1918: 15 of the original 30 cars, #136-149, 151 were purchased by the Emergency Fleet Corp for Philadelphia Railways in order to serve the Hog Island naval shipyard. The other 15 went to Philadelphia Rapid Transit.

• 1922

  • August, 1922: 6 cars, #144-147, 149 and 151 were sold to the Ocean Electric Railway of Rockaway, NY and renumbered 36-41.

• 1927

  • Fall 1927: Atlantic City & Shore Railroad received 6 cars from Ocean Electric Railway and renumbered them 6845-6850. Cars were then painted orange and cream.

• 1945

  • December 1, 1945: The Atlantic City Transportation Company (ACTC) was organized to purchase the Atlantic City and Longport trolley line from the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad.

• 1946

  • The Atlantic City & Shore RR. along with other Shore Fast Line properties were dissolved after being acquired by the ACTC.

• 1950

  • Summer: ACTC proposed replacing streetcars with busses.

• 1951-1955

  • Car 6850 was renumbered 250 and painted black and cream.

  • December 26, 1955: Last day of streetcar operation in Atlantic City.

The following is courtesy of the Trolley Museum of New York website, TMNY.org.

• 1955-1957

  • 1955: Everett A. White started the Trolley Museum of New York (TMNY), in Brooklyn.

  • Circa 1957: Atlantic City 250 was acquired by Everett A. White along with 2 Brooklyn trolleys, 1000 and 8361, and the last car to operate over the Queensborough Bridge, #601.

• 1957-1968

  • Atlantic City 250, along with the other TMNY cars, was stored at the Baltimore & Ohio railyards at St. George on Staten Island.

• 1968-1975

  • TMNY’s 4 cars were moved to Trolley Valhalla in Tansboro, NJ.

• 1989

  • November 1989: Atlantic City 250 was moved to the TMNY campus in Kingston, NY.

• 2018

  • December 2018: Atlantic City 250 arrived at Kinkisharyo International in Piscataway, NJ, after being donated to NJERHS by the Shore Line Trolley Museum.