Among the earliest of the H&M's cars were the :"black" cars [image from the B. Carleton collection]

Before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks a car waits at the World Trade Center platform...

Sketch from Passenger Terminals and Trains - John A. Droege  1st ed.   New York, McGraw-Hill, 1916 LC Classification:  TF305 .D83

This interior shot of a black car shows a short lived experiment to announce the upcoming station in advance through a telegraph board. Interestingly a half century before such devices came into common use, such as at Pavonia station in 2002.

Sporting a new PATH emblem just after the PA takeover, K series car no. 1227 from St. Louis Car Co. travels the above ground segment west of Journal Square  on its way to Hudson Terminal [NY]

The motorman's cab in the PA car series. Harry Beck at www.nycrail.com

New cars after the PA takeover: the interior of the PA-1 thru PA-4 series always were very similar to one another. After the rebuilding of the older series with only longitudinal seating, they probably appear exactly the same to most passengers.

At the ends of refurbished PA cars handicapped sections were left available for wheelchairs.

On many of the PA series cars, shields were installed at the ends of the passenger compartment with the names and histories of some of the New Jersey  cities,  towns and townships located inside the PA's area, i.e. the twenty-five mile radius circle centered on the Statue of Liberty. Michael Steinberg's  Unofficial NJ Transit page has more details.

The latest cars, PA series, wait outside the Journal Square station.

The "new"  33rd Street station is sandwiched between the IND and the BMT and there is a notable decline to reach the platforms from the mezzanine between the two NYC subway stations.

A series of equipment photos from the Carleton Collection:

Among both the older and the later equipment series, the equipment running to Newark was split between the H&M and the Pennsylvania. Here an H&M car.

... and here the Pennsylvania's version of the joint service car. a "red car" .....

.... and here a red car of the joint service heading to Newark towards the end of its service days.

Black cars at the east end of the Journal Square station, at the Summit Avenue bridge. These cars were 51'-0" long,  8'-10.5" wide and 11'-8.5" high, weighing in at : 79,200 lbs. The seating capacity:  was generally 44..

 A PRR red car for the joint service passes West Side Avenue in Jersey City. This grade level crossing was closed to motor traffic after the PA takeover.

After being removed from passenger service some K-series car appear as a work train at Journal Square [from Blickpunkt Strassenbahn]

A PATH car seldom seen by the public in service is this PATH engine bringing PATH cars to the Lackawanna Terminal's surface tracks for a festival in 2002. From chuchubob

For over 80 years, maintenance work was carried out at the Henderson Street yards sandwiched  tightly into a commercial area of Lower Jersey City a few blocks from Grove Street station. Paul Carleton has this schematic of the Grove Yards in his book The Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Revisited. 

while David Pirmann has this view of the Henderson Street Yards ...

... and this of the current Harrison Maintenance Facility that replaced Henderson Street

First of 2 timelines from 2002.....

 ,,,,,, and the 2nd.

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