Antique Delaware Valley Print - Vintage Bus Becomes Light Rail - Trenton New Jersey

Antique Delaware Valley Print - Vintage Bus Becomes Light Rail - Trenton New Jersey

$45.00 Sale

Treasures from THE PHILADELPHIA / DELAWARE VALLEY COLLECTION at The Willing Mind. By exclusive arrangement with The Grand Review.

Print size 20 x 24, and consciously formatted to work with a standard size store bought frame, or custom framed as you see fit.

When the new RiverLine light rail was going in, connecting Trenton to Camden (and Philadelphia with a transfer to the High Speed Line over the Ben Franklin Bridge), the mid point was approximately Burlington, New Jersey. I had just moved my family there into what proved the oldest standing brewery in the United States... but that is another story, and we stayed in Burlington for a few fascinating years before returning the family to Philly.

Anyway, nobody thought it was important enough to make any sort of whoop and holler for the opening of the new train, and halfway through going ballistic about everyone's lah dee dah attitude, I decided to rub the local powers that be's noses in it as the new guy in town and basically guilted them into getting off their asses and claiming some of the glory of this momentous event by having an opening day celebration right there in the middle of Burlington City.

In anticipation of the event, I put a really big show together of New Jersey transportation images and hung it in the broad expanse of plate glass that made up the facade of the vacant old McCrory's five & dime, one store in from the intersection of High Street and RiverLine, AKA Broad Street. Damn good exhibition, if I do say so myself. We called it

Right On Time
New Jersey Transportation Images, 1840s - 1940s

THIS particular image was one of the highlights of the show as far as I'm concerned, and we used it on the poster for the exhibit as well. Trolley people love it, bus collectors love it, and antique truck folks love it though it seems equally popular with folks who just enjoy being transported into this delightfully calm yet unusual time and place aboard this bus inexplicably converted to track use. What the heck?

 

 

  • Handmade item
  • Materials: Art stock enhanced matte paper, archival ink
  • Made to order
  • Only ships within United States.

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