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Neat story. Hmm I wonder if the electric motors are still attached to the axles?
Dan Weinhold
Public Service kept the trucks, you just got a body more or less stripped of running gear like brake rigging, controller, etc.
Quite a few of these were used as summer homes, vacation cabins, etc. you more or less had to "know somebody" at PSEG
and pay a rigging company to move it.
Our group https://www.njerhs.org/ is restoring one that was a temporary house while the husband and wife built a permanent one in Long Valley, NJ.
Cool! Thank you.
Dan Weinhold
@JET posted:Public Service kept the trucks, you just got a body more or less stripped of running gear like brake rigging, controller, etc.
I wonder what was meant then, when near the end of the article, the homeowner is quoted as saying:
“The wheels are still in the ground. It’s the original mahogany, the original windows, the original oak floors, the original buzzer,”
---PCJ
He was misinformed ( he was 2 years old when all this happened )
One of the captions reads "The Sjonells’ home has been built seamlessly around the trolley; the trolley’s exterior is entirely intact. " underneath a photo showing a doorway cut into the side of the car. They simply don't know.
This is what you got for $1 ( plus shipping and handling 
)
They removed the end platforms with the folding doors from both ends and cut a doorway in the side of the car.
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Further research shows the three 6500 series cars were gas electric cars ( a streetcar powered by a gasoline generator ) and were rebuilt from older trolley cars.
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