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The problem with that is that this is a Hudson River Line trolley - an east-west line. It didn't go up and down Main St.



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I decided to dig a little further into that railpictures site and found a few more interesting images.

I think this one is the prize (though it's not on Main St, as the caption would have you believe - it's on Mercer):

[This was also posted in the "Hackensack Street Cars/Trolleys (Photos)" topic]

I just found a page - http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=300912 - that shows a trolley car in the "Hackensack Car Yard".

It also gives a date - August 4, 1938 - and mentions that it's two days before "abandonment of the Hudson River Line", so now we know when that major trolley line ceased to serve Hackensack.


We also now know that Editor's picture could not have been taken before 1938 (or after 1945).



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ROUTE 17

Prior to 1927, Rt 17 was Rt 17N, but the route followed local streets. In 1927, it became Rt 2. The route was moved to a multilane divided highway BY 1937 - not IN 1937, so we can't nail down a year. It became Rt 17 in 1942.


None of this helps our quest, but this next bit might narrow it down a little more:

MUNICIPAL BUS TERMINAL

Assuming I've got the right municipal bus terminal, according to this - http://xrl.us/MunicTerm - it opened in 1937, so the image should be from somewhere between 1937 and 1945.

If the original folder is accurate, it would be between 1937 and 1939.



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George Scudder says that the Fox was built after the Oritani (http://xrl.us/ScudderTheaters), so if you see the Fox, you see the Oritani.

According to the below, the Fox opened in 1932, so the maximum time frame for the image to have been taken is 1932-1945.



(sorry, Editor - I was working off Homer's last post on the previous page and didn't see that you essentially said the same thing above)



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Bob- I meant "train cars", in the yard just east of River Street in the big image.

Sorry. For some reason, I thought you were referring to the eBay tracks image. Your train cars were what I guessed were leftover trolley cars.

Do we know if a train yard succeeded the trolley yard in that location?



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As they used mto say in the old Wrigley gum commercial "Some people call it a spear and some people call it an arrow."

“Certs is a candy mint."

"Certs is a breath mint."

"Stop! You're both right!”



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