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The Honeymooner – Train # 1033 (Parlor Car) dep Philadelphia 10:45 PM, arr Atlantic City 12:10 AM (night) The Skipper – Train # 1002 dep Atlantic City 6:00 AM, arr Philadelphia 7:21 AM Barnacle Bill Special – Train # 116 (Lounge Car) dep Atlantic City 6:40 AM, arr Camden 7:37 AM
In the early 20th century, Atlantic City and the South Jersey seashore were major seaside vacation destinations for Philadelphia area residents. The popularity of South Jersey's seashore was made possible by rail transport, which provided inexpensive and fast service between the Philadelphia area's population centers and shore points.
A Brill Bullet (right) passes a pair of "Strafford Cars" (left), Philadelphia, June 1968 A 1947 ACF-Brill trolley bus in Philadelphia, 1978. Birney safety car – by subsidiary, the American Car Company. Traditional arch-windowed, all-wood interurban cars. 1890-1920s. Model 55 (1924–38), Model 65 (1924) and Model 75 (1924–) railcars.
Angelo Bruno (born Angelo Annaloro, Italian: [ˈandʒelo annaˈlɔːro]; May 21, 1910 – March 21, 1980) [2] was a Sicilian-American mobster who was boss of the Philadelphia crime family for two decades until his assassination.
Pennsylvania Railroad's E1 class comprised three experimental 4-4-2 "Atlantic" locomotivess built in 1899 to compete with the Reading Railroad on the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Camden, New Jersey), to Atlantic City, New Jersey, high-speed seashore passenger train service.
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The Atlantic City Railroad was a Philadelphia and Reading Railway subsidiary that became part of Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines in 1933. At the end of 1925, it operated 161 miles (259 km) of road on 318 miles (512 km) of track; that year it reported 43 million ton-miles of revenue freight and 204 million passenger-miles.
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