Thanks to Art Peterson for sending along some more unique photos. This time, it's a pair of photos taken in Wildwood, New Jersey, showing cars from the Five Mile Beach Electric after they were retired and repurposed. FMBE was mostly known for its open cars, at least in the later years, and a handful of those were preserved, but its closed cars - including these examples - are more obscure.
FMBE 16 is a great example of a "trolley diner" right down to the message "Eat at Joe's" painted on the end. It was built as a single-car order in 1906 by Jackson & Sharp, order number 2619. Any idea when or where in Wildwood this photo was taken?
UPDATE: Some terrific sleuthing by Zach Ehlers has suggested strongly that this is the corner of Arctic and Garfield (see the "-field" street sign) looking roughly east. There was a gasometer just east-southeast of this intersection that's visible on historic aerial photos. Thanks, Zach!
FMBE 31 is an unusual car. It was built by American Car Company in 1916 on order #1054 and bears some resemblance in styling to a Birney, though it slightly predates that type. It's a straight center-entrance car with no doors at the corners. This car and one other were built for the Benton Harbor & St. Joseph in Michigan, numbers 15 and ??, and only later sold to FMBE. Anyone have any idea where in Wildwood this might have been?
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