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	PCC streetcar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		PCC cars were initially built in the United States by the St.
		PCC cars for Canadian cities were built jointly by St. Louis Car Co. and Canadian Car and Foundry in Montréal, Quebec.
		A number of different models of Toronto PCC cars are on display at the Ontario Electric Railway Historical Society museum known as the Halton County Radial Railway near Rockwood, Ontario.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/PCC_streetcar (1422 words)

	Pittsburgh Railways OnLine - History Page 1
		PCC trams rose unflinchingly to the challenge, hauling hordes of Pittsburghers over the rugged landscape with gradients in excess of 12 per cent, despite deferred maintenance during PRCo's later years.
		Fewer PCCs were required to hold down the same schedules previously worked by a greater number of conventional cars; the PCCs were faster, and they suffered fewer accidents and breakdowns.
		Cars 1400- 1499 (there was to be no 1300 series) were delivered to PRCo between February and May of 1942, and not a moment too soon.
	www.angelfire.com /ny/tramstop/history1.html (1035 words)

	The Shore Line Trolley Museum: Newark PCC 27 arrives at the museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Although Shaker had purchased 25 PCC cars new in 1948, the bulk of their equipment was second-hand.
		Because they were single-ended (as is typical for PCC cars), it was necessary to construct a loop at the Franklin Avenue station.
		Still present on car 27 are the ceiling-mounted speakers that were part of a brief and ill-fated attempt to pipe in music and advertisements in Minneapolis.
	www.bera.org /articles/newpcc27.html (1395 words)

	Chicago ''L''.org: Museums - IRM Fantrip 2001
		6000-series car 6655 is at the Englewood terminal on May 6, 2001 for the IRM PCC car fantrip, though it bears the destination sign of the Englewood-Howard "A" run that the 6000s would have run in that era.
		The IRM PCC charter is trailed by car 22, looking south at the original 1890s Garfield platform on May 6, 2001.
		The IRM PCC charter train, with car 6655 bringing up the rear, is on the lay-up track at Midway Terminal on May 6, 2001.
	www.chicago-l.org /museums/IRMtrip2001 (792 words)

	index3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The cars were purchased beginning in 1936, with the company taking delivery of # 100, which was by most all accounts, the first delivered PCC car in the world.
		Eleven of these cars were outfitted as interurbans to prove that PCCs could make the long run comfortably and leading the way for the 1700 interurbans.
		I have also included the PCC cars from shortly after the Port Authority took over in the pictures here on this page, as they are still the standard red and cream color of Pittsburgh Railways.
	www.pittsburghtransit.com /index3.html (1056 words)

	National Railway Historical Society - NRHS -
		Delivered in September 1938, the car was an immediate success on Atlantic Avenue, the eight mile route that ran the length of the city from the Inlet on the north to Longport on the south.
		The cars had a weight advantage over the PCC and in areas such as cooling and heating, as well as controls, both the Brilliner and the PCC were quite similar.
		The cars Brill built for Red Arrow in 1941 were destined to run for over 40 years, a record for the Brilliner and certainly a long life for any type of rail car.
	www.nrhs.com /spot/brillliners (1992 words)

	Presidents' Conference Committee Cars
		These cars were easily distinguishable from the St. Louis cars due to their slightly boxier appearance, lack of some trim, and more primitive looking wooden doors with squared off windows, as opposed to the streamlined look of the curved "blinker" style doors on the St. Louis cars.
		These cars, and those that followed months later are distinguishable due to their slate grey roofs (buff on the following order), and the painted railings on the interiors, as well as the absence of the trademark "flying wings" that adorned the headlights of the PCC cars.
		Car #7029 was an oddity among Alexandria Blue PCC's, receiving a repaint similar to that used on the Brilliner, wherein the roof striping headed straight across the area of the destination sign, instead of swooping down beneath it.
	www.btco.net /Vehicles/PCC (5498 words)

	Rockhill Trolley Museum: Phila PCC #2743
		The Museum's example of a PCC car comes from Philadelphia, PA. Car 2743 was acquired by the Museum in 1994.
		Car 2743 was built by the St. Louis Car Co. in 1947 using a 1945 design.
		Most PCC cars built were single-ended, meaning that main controls were located only at one end of the car, with shop movement controls (or no controls at all) in the rear.
	www.rockhilltrolley.org /roster/2743.htm (442 words)

	Custom Traxx - Your Trolley Modeling Connection
		Over 5000 PCC cars were built in the United States by St. Louis Car Co. in Missouri and Pullman-Standard in Massachusetts.
		These cars substituted for the cable car system which was under renovation at the time an a major political party convention was also in town during that summer.
		Fifteen excellent PCC cars, which had been partially rebuilt in the 1980's, were obtained for "peanuts" from Philadelphia and fourteen of them along with three of San Francisco's own were rebuilt at Morrison-Knudson in Hornell, New York to like-new condition.
	home.earthlink.net /~traxx (878 words)

	East Troy Railroad Museum: PCC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Actually, the second car completed, Pittsburgh 100, was the first car to enter revenue service so that Westinghouse could show off it's new drive in their home city.
		An undetermined number of cars were built under license for overseas service by BN in the Netherlands and Tatra and Konstall behind the Iron Curtain.
		PCC's are still operating in regular service in the Newark Subway, on Toronto's Harbourfront line, Boston's Mattapan line, Pittsburgh's Drake line and in Fort Worth using highly modified bodies.
	www.easttroyrr.org /pcc.htm (1688 words)

	The PCC Car - Not So Standard
		Although the PCC car was designed as a standardized high performance city streetcar, for various reasons some properties could not use the model designed by Dr. Hirschfield and the ERPCC.
		The pioneers of the PCC era were the pre-war cars built in 1936 for Brooklyn and Baltimore along with single units for Boston and Pittsburgh.
		The standard PCC was purchased by Baltimore (275), Boston (1), Brooklyn (99), Detroit (2), Kansas City (24), Los Angeles (95), Montreal (18), Philadelphia (260), Pittsburgh (400), San Diego (28), Toronto (290) and Vancouver (36) while Brill's competitor was acquired by Atlantic City (25).
	world.nycsubway.org /us/pcc (2208 words)

	TIMEPOINTS VOL 17 NO 2 FEBRUARY, 1959
		Certainly the most obvious distinguishing characteristic, to the causal observer, of the postwar PCC car was the addition of standee windows.
		Regarding the future of the PCC car, I feel it will be around for a long time yet, perhaps indefinitely.
		All cars laying over in LA during the day now do so at 6th and Main on the viaduct instead of in the yard at 9th and Hooper as in the past.
	www.erha.org /timepoints/v17n2.htm (4238 words)

	PCC CAR - THE INDUSTRY SAVIOR?
		Although PCC car #1512 which belonged to D.C. Transit Company, in Washington D.C., was a little out of the ordinary, as far as PCC cars were concerned, it demonstrates how PCC streetcar technology had advanced.
		There are still several small fleets of PCC cars, operating in the United States today (2000), even though many of them were built in the mid 1940’s to early 1950’s.
		These cars are currently undergoing a program, to totally rebuild each car, so that they can continue to serve the high speed line into the new millennium.
	www.trolleystop.com /pcccar.htm (394 words)

	MATA Specifications: 143/Winnie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Operated by DC Transit as car 1506 until abandonment of that system in February 1962.
		Car originally equipped with a pantograph, but later equipped with trolley poles.
		We rewired the car and improved the air-conditioning.
	www.mata.org /143specs.shtml (342 words)

	NCTM International Street Car Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Two sample PCCs, HTM 1001 and 1002, were built in St. Louis by St. Louis Car Co. and shipped as bodies and parts, together with another unit, to La Brugeoise et Nivelles in Brugge, Belgium, for assembly.
		In reaffirmation of Toronto's love affair with its Red Rockets (PCC street cars) and to cater to a sudden upswing in ridership as well as the new Harbourfront line, a study was undertaken in late 1984 regarding a PCC rebuilding program.
		All the wiring between the front and middle of the car was relocated in a sealed conduit in the side sill instead of beneath the car floor.
	www.dctrolley.org /incoll.htm (1156 words)

	Articles - Tram (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Cable cars are pulled along a rail track by a continuously moving cable running at a constant speed on which individual cars stop and start by releasing and gripping this cable as required.
		Cable cars were especially useful in hilly cities, partially explaining their survival in San Francisco, though the most extensive cable system in the U.S. was in Chicago, Illinois, a flat city.
		This survival was aided by the introduction of the modern PCC car in the 1940s and 1950s in all these cities except New Orleans.
	www.dcustom.com /articles/Tram (4312 words)

	The Trolley Museum Collection, Car 1000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It is the only PCC streetcar ever built by Clark, even though Clark got the contract to build all PCC wheelsets (trucks).
		It has standee windows, which didn't appear in other PCC cars until the mid 1940's.
		Car 1000 was in an accident in the 1940's, at which point it was fitted with a steel front from a scrapped St.
	www.tmny.org /tmny1000.html (238 words)

	NCTM Washington Street Car Collection
		The Electric Railway Presidents' Conference Committee (PCC) car brought to the Nation's Capital years of design work to create a standard of modern excellence for street cars in the United States.
		As an early PCC, DCTS 1101 does not have the standee windows of the "post-war cars" and does employ compressed air for windshield wipers, door engines, and brakes for the final stop.
		Age and the arrival of the Presidents' Conference Committee cars in 1937 brought the demise of the center door cars in Washington.
	www.dctrolley.org /dccoll.htm (1019 words)

	Newark City Subway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The PCC cars made their debut in the Newark City Subway on January 8, 1954.
		The other 21 PCC cars will remain on NJ TRANSIT property while the Corporation searches for suitable New Jersey locations where they can be restored and put into local service.
		Anyone wishing to take a "last ride" on the PCC cars must go to Newark Penn Station.Tickets for these rides will be issued, and customers will board PCC cars, on a first-come, first-served basis at Newark Penn Station.
	www.virtualnewarknj.com /busind/tranportation/subway.htm (677 words)

	Shaker Heights Rapid Transit PCCs
		RTA PCC Car #78 approaches the Green Road Station in May of 1982.
		Built by Pullman in 1947, Car #72, and #71 pictured above, were among the first cars the Shaker recieved from Pullman.
		Car #72 and the others are in pretty good shape considering their age.
	www.geocities.com /bcgspccpics/shaker.html (434 words)

	Q-Car Company - Corgi Car Truck Installation
		Note that the brass strip is split into two sections with a long part under the front of the car and a shorter section on top of the plastic floor right in the rear aisle between the seats (see photo #4) and (see photo #5).
		To help sort out the confusion is the photo of the rear truck of Kenosha PCC car #4609 in service, along with the rarely photographed "Car 6" - one of the spare PCC trucks just as it came from CTA but with an added cable reel attachment.
		They tow the cable car behind this when needed, and keep it to rescue any stranded streetcars - happened once last fall when they popped a span wire, possibly because the boat folks yanked the overhead dragging one of their yachts into the marina.
	www.qcarcompany.com /information/info/Becwar_Corgi_Truck_Installation (3970 words)

	Images from the Last 3295 Fantrip! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Car 3295 ran in service until around 1979, when it was to be retired.
		The PCCs don't serve the Green Line anymore, and the Boston Garden is presently vacant and awaiting demolishion.
		PCC 3295 was the first passenger carrying streetcar onto this side of the platform in 32 years!
	members.aol.com /mtabus/3295/3295trip.html (885 words)

	ipedia.com: Twin City Rapid Transit Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This car was used on special occasions, such as the opening of new lines and a visit by United States President William McKinley.
		The following years saw dozens of new PCC cars on the streets, although the first one remained unique in the fleet because it was the only one to have air brakes.
		Some of the PCC cars once owned by Twin City Rapid Transit are just beginning their lives as museum pieces.
	www.ipedia.com /twin_city_rapid_transit.html (2641 words)

	East Troy Railroad Museum: Car Roster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Car 30 still has its original interior, with its mahogany paneling restored, revolving double-bucket leatherette seats, and the old-fashioned walkaround smoking compartment still in place.
		Car 13 was one of the units lengthened in the postwar era by the ever-creative Michigan City Shops of the CSSandSB to increase seating, but did not receive the full treatment that included sealed picture windows and air conditioning as did 24 and 25.
		Cars 13 and 21 were received in 1998 when a proposed museum operation in Michigan City, Indiana ceased planning.
	www.easttroyrr.org /roster.html (2436 words)

	Trolley Car relocation
		The PCC cars have arrived at their new destination at the Brooklyn Navy Yards in Brooklyn, New York.
		RPM finished loading vintage R.T.A. PCC car for shipment from Buffalo, New York to Red Hook, New York.
		Car #19 from Trolleyville, U.S.A. just unloaded on the Detroit Superior via duct bridge in Cleveland, Ohio for a demonstration project to promote use of trolleys for tourism in 2003.
	www.rpmrigging.com /trolley.html (237 words)

	Encyclopedia: Newark, New Jersey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		PCC car at Newark Penn Station in 2001 The Newark City Subway (NCS) in Newark, New Jersey is operated by New Jersey Transit.
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	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Newark,-New-Jersey (10820 words)

	Philadelphia PCC Car Roster: nos. 2701-2800
		112 postwar PCC cars were overhauled between 1979 and 1988.
		Cars highlighted in fl-and-white have been re-manufactured as PCC-II Cars tinted green are stored by SEPTA.
		Cars tinted red were destroyed in the Woodland Carbarn Fire, October 1975
	www.phillytrolley.org /2701-2800.html (212 words)

	Toronto Tranportation Commission
		One of the terms of these agreements was that the track gauge was to accommodate wagons.
		As horse car rail was step rail, the horse cars, equipped with iron wheels with flanges on the inside, ran on the outer, or upper step of the rail.
		BEC-KITS Great Britain, produces an HO model of a PCC car built by St. Louis Car Co. 1936-1944.
	www.trainweb.org /elso/TTC.HTM (873 words)

	Trains.com - Clearance for a Bowser PCC car
		The Bachmann version of the PCC car sits way to far up, which is one reason I prefer the Bowser.
		The main line of the Moose Bay Transit Authority is all laid, and I'm working on the grades up to the surface for the PCC car's route.
		You have already found your answer.but The new PCC's are indeed at the proper height.My experiance with Bowser has been that it's sometimes best to order direct on the street railway equipment.
	www.trains.com /community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=36249 (1430 words)

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