Red Bank
Jersey Central Traction
#50 in a Brill builders photo.  The Jersey Cenral Traction Company ran between South Amboy to Red Bank and Atlantic Highlands. Much of the right-of-way of the line to Atlantic Highlands exists today as a power transmission line. The company's carbarn in Keyport still exists as a municipal building which I believe houses the police department. I am not sure if they had trackage rights over Public Service to serve Perth Amboy, but there was some shared trackage in South Amboy. The late Walter Druck told me that a Public Service motorman in the 1920's decided to take a joy ride and took his trolley over the Jersey Central Traction Company's line. I don't know how far he got before getting caught.
Caption data from Frank S. Miklos
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