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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.
		One of the particularities of the Brussels PCC vehicles is that some of them have been equipped with bogies and electric motors acquired second-hand in the United States from decommissioned streetcars from Kansas City, Missouri and Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/PCC_streetcar (1750 words)

	Toronto streetcar system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Despite their use of techniques long-removed in most cities, Toronto's streetcars are in no way heritage streetcars run for tourism or nostalgic purposes; they provide most of the downtown core's surface transit service, and four of the TTC's five most heavily-travelled surface routes are streetcar routes.
		Another proposed streetcar rapid transit line from Kipling station was abandoned, but the ghost platform at the bus level is a hint of a streetcar line.
		The TTC has used route numbers in the 500 series for streetcar routes since the late 1970s; prior to then, streetcar routes were not numbered, but the destination signs on the new CLRVs were not large enough to display both the route name and destination.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toronto_streetcar_system (2652 words)

	Transit Toronto - Content: The PCC Afterlife
		That's the fate of TTC PCC 4716 (ex-Birmingham 816).
		The streetcar was sold complete, trucks and all, and moved to the north side of Dundas Street just west of Yonge during the late evening of July 15, 1973.
		PCC 4460 was retired by the TTC in 1991 and kept in storage inside Russell Carhouse until it was purchased by one Ralph Cantos along with two others that almost went to San Francisco's Muni's F Line before San Francisco backed out of the deal.
	transit.toronto.on.ca /streetcar/4006.shtml (1140 words)

	Toronto Transit Commission - Charters
		A total of 745 PCC streetcars—the largest such fleet in the world—served the residents of Toronto from the PCC streetcar's inception until December 8, 1995, when PCC streetcar service ended.
		Over the 57 years the PCC streetcar served transit users, Toronto has changed from a nondescript small city to the cosmopolitan and world-class community it has become today.
		For the PCC, in the event of a mechanical breakdown, the TTC reserves the right to replace the PCC streetcar with a regular streetcar.
	www.toronto.ca /ttc/pcc_historic_charters.htm (595 words)

	Exhibits: DC Transit Company PCC Streetcar (1945) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		PCC stands for President's Conference Committee, which convened during the Depression as a means of reviving the local and interurban traction industry.
		The PCC design used high-tensile alloy steel and welding techniques that allowed for a radical departure from the noisy, slow-moving, heavy cars operated by traction companies for many years.
		During the 1980s, PCC cars were still operating in Boston, Cleveland, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Toronto.
	www.vmt.org /Collections/dc_trolley_1470.htm (322 words)

	PCC streetcar: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A tram (or tramway, trolley, streetcar, tramcar, straßenbahn) is a railborne vehicle (lighter than a train) for transport of passengers...
		PCC cars were initially built in the United States[Click link for more facts about this topic] by the St.
		The Kenosha Electric Streetcar is unique among modern PCC operations in that that PCCs had never run in the city before 2000—the original rail system there was shut down in 1932 before any PCC cars had even been built.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pc/pcc_streetcar2.htm (3252 words)

	PCC streetcar - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The PCC (Presidents' Conference Committee) streetcar is a streetcar (tram) design that was first built in the United States in the 1930s.
		One of the PCC cars from the Tandy Center Subway has now been restored and is in service on the McKinney Avenue Transit Authority in Dallas, Texas.
		Pre-war streetcar networks remain intact in a number of European cities, and many still use PCCs as part or all of their rolling stock.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/PCC_car (1539 words)

	Minnesota Streetcar Museum
		After 5 years of restoration at the overhaul base, PCC No. 322 touches home rails for the first time in 44 years.
		PCC No. 322 sees daylight for the first time in its resplendent coat of Twin City Lines yellow.
		The PCC wheel is a rubber/steel sandwich that effectively eliminates much of the noise and harshness.
	www.trolleyride.org /CHSL_Main/322restoration (767 words)

	Boston's Green Line Crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1947, the BERy was purchased by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and christened it the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA).
		Also, the demands placed on the PCC fleet by the success of the Riverside line was quickly taking its toll of the aging fleet of cars.
		PCC cars were entered into the program based on the condition of each individual car.
	members.aol.com /netransit/private/LRV.html (5219 words)

	Trains.com - Throttle Notches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The PCC streetcar, you know, the one which kind of looks like a 40's vintage bus, was supposed to have a controller with a large number of notches.
		The PCC controller was supposed to be this high tech (pre-electronic) design with nearly notchless performance, using the usual relays but lots of intermediate taps with resistors, field weakening, what have you.
		PCC's are still considered a good serviceable transit vehicle some 70 years after introduction and are running in regular service in the USA in Kenosha, San Francisco, and the high-speed Mattapan-Ashmont line sourth of Boston.
	www.trains.com /community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=39487 (1690 words)

	Transit Toronto - Content: 4004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		To deal with this, it was decided to take the PCC to the very end of the Weston line where it was stored to the end of the day, after which time it was towed backwards to the nearest loop...
		The Weston Road Streetcar, a remnant of an interurban that went all the way to Woodbridge, operated using double ended streetcars until the line was replaced by a trolley bus line in 1948.
		The Harbord-Bathurst intersection fell with the abandonment of the Harbord Streetcar in 1966.
	transit.toronto.on.ca /streetcar/4004.shtml (4173 words)

	PCC Streetcars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		PCC's are streetcars that were originally designed under the direction of the Electric Railway Presidents' Conference Committee, in an attempt by twenty-five U.S. and Canadian transit companies to develop a standardized streetcar whose many improvements would help to reverse the decline in transit use that had begun in the 1920's.
		The cars' streamlined design was attractive, and they were quieter and more economical that earlier versions of streetcars, with better motors, controls, acceleration, and braking, Chicago had the largest fleet of PCCs and of the American cities no represented in Muni's F-line fleet, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C., also had a large number of the cars.
		From February 1980 to June 1981, the city's five streetcar lines were converted in phases to Muni Metro service on weekday, with Metro streetcars (light rail vehicles) providing the weekday service in the new Market St. subway and PCCs continuing to provide service on the surface of Market on weekends.
	www.snapcity.com /past/snap2/PCC.html (381 words)

	Historic Streetcars
		The late Maurice Klebolt was one of the leading advocates for the historic streetcar service – he was the person largely responsible for obtaining the first historic streetcar from another country (the streetcar from Hamburg, Germany), which came to San Francisco in 1979.
		Streetcars from Milan, Italy, built in 1928, were acquired by Muni for the extension of the service (now called the F Market and Wharves line) to Fisherman’s Wharf.
		Muni's first streetcar, which began service in 1912, and is the oldest operating streetcar built for a publicly owned and operated transit system in the U.S. No. 106.
	www.sfmuni.com /cms/mms/aboutmun/histcars.htm (1601 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)

	PCC streetcar - TheBestLinks.com - PCC car, Automobile, Acceleration, Belgium, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		PCC car, PCC streetcar, Automobile, Acceleration, Belgium, Brussels, Bus...
		In addition, the Newark City Subway ran PCCs until upgrading to modern light rail vehicles in 2001.
		The unique Tandy Center Subway, essentially a glorified shuttle operation bringing passengers back and forth between a mall and its parking lot, also used PCCs, though their exteriors were modified so as to be largely unrecognizable.
	www.thebestlinks.com /PCC_car.html (742 words)

	San Francisco Trams : F-Line photos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The trams are mainly former San Francisco streetcars dating from the 1940's painted in the colours of USA cities that operated them.
		Also present are ten trams originating from Milan painted in the famous orange livery of that city, and some trams from around the world such as Melbourne and Blackpool.
		Photo Facts (clockwise): San Francisco PCC streetcar 1010 in SF Muni livery; PCC streetcar 1053 in Brooklyn livery; the oldest vehicle currently in service - 1 - built in 1912; PCC streetcar 1061 in Pacific Electric (LA) livery.
	www.photo-transport.co.uk /trams/f-line/f-line.htm (164 words)

	PCC CAR - THE INDUSTRY SAVIOR?
		Their second goal, was to design a modern, comfortable riding, fast accelerating trolley, that could be used as a standard streetcar in any city, and could compete against the buses and automobiles.
		The PCC car, turned out to be one of the best designed, and most reliable trolleys ever built.
		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.
	www.trolleystop.com /pcccar.htm (394 words)

	San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau
		By serving the City, its residents and its tourists these PCC streetcars have become a genuine part of San Francisco and its transit heritage.
		All streetcars in San Francisco are "vintage," meaning they are actual antiques built between the 1890s and 1950s.
		The new PCC’s purchased by Muni will be restored to their original beauty by undergoing a "mini-restoration." Lead paint will be removed from each car and repainted to represent cities around North America that once operated the famous PCC streetcar.
	www.sfcvb.org /travel_media/press.asp?rid=198&cid=5 (566 words)

	Railroad Equipment - Rocky Mountain Railroad Club - Los Angeles Railway Streetcar history and photographs
		This car was built in 1943 for the Los Angeles Railway and after it was retired from that line it was moved to Cripple Creek, CO. It ran there for a short time on a tourist operation with about 900 feet of track.
		The car was then moved to the Colorado Railroad Museum where it resided until being leased to the Pike's Peak Historical Street Railway Foundation who will restore it to operation.
		An offer was made by the St. Louis Car Company to "loan" Denver a PCC for testing but the Tramway company refused.
	www.rockymtnrrclub.org /no3101.htm (130 words)

	Downtown Trolley, Inc. : Replicars
		Replicars refers to streetcars manufactured in recent years that are built to the specifications of streetcars that operated many years ago in various U.S. cities.
		Gomaco Trolley Company, located in Ida Grove, IA, builds a line of streetcars to the specifications of the double-truck Birney streetcars that ran in a number of cities in the 1920s.
		Again, to meet the need for more streetcars, RTA constructed 24 replicars that are similar in appearance to the Perley Thomas cars.
	www.downtowntrolley.org /equipment/index.php?category_id=1574 (497 words)

	East Troy Railroad - East Troy, Wisconsin: Trolley Rides, Dinner Trains, Railroad Museum and Gift Shop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Their goal was to develop a replacement for the 74,000 streetcars then in service in the United States, of which 40,000 were over 20 years old.
		In the peak year of 1951, 4919 PCC streetcars were in operation in North America.
		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 /roster/pcc.asp (1562 words)

	1952 Brussels/Zurich tram No. 737
		The Presidents' Conference Committee (PCC) streetcar was a distinctly American invention, dreamed up by a group of transit company presidents in the early 1930s to replace old-fashioned trolleys and staunch the defenction of transit riders to automobiles.
		But in that same time period, the PCC was beginning a somewhat unlikely rennaissance in Europe.
		On the other side of the Iron Curtain, the PCC design was adapted by Czechoslovakia's TATRA, which churned out thousands of trams based on this US technology for dozens of Soviet-bloc cities—invariably painted red.
	www.streetcar.org /mim/streetcars/fleet/historic/737 (499 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Unlike earlier versions of streetcars, the PCC models were quieter, more economical, and featured better motors, controls, acceleration, and braking.
		The streetcars use a state of the art power system that reduces operating and utility infrastructure costs.
		He envisioned electric streetcars as an integral part of the redevelopment of the 64-acre lakefront property today known as HarborPark and was instrumental in the system's development.
	my.execpc.com /A2/7E/coken2/streethistory.html (479 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.
		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.
		The 1947-1948 vintage PCC cars that opened the line in 1995 are augmented by some of the city's even older colorful cars, car 1 and car 130, car 952 from New Orleans, several ex-Milan, Italy Peter Witt types, a "Boat" tram from Great Britain, a streetcar from Melbourne, Australia, and a PCC car from Belgium.
	home.earthlink.net /~traxx (940 words)

	Mostly PCC's
		Backgrounds on some of the Philadelphia cars and the story behind the 2263 fan trip from Ed Casey are much appreciated.
		PCC data for this site is from the indispensable PCC Cars of North America by Dr. Harold E. Cox.
		The successful electric streetcar with its speedy acceleration that Sprague developed made cities with a radius of more than three miles possible.
	www.pccmph.com (321 words)

	Vancouver B.C. Canada. "Rails To Rubber" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		On the left hand side of the photo you will see a PCC streetcar and just barely visible behind it is a Brill Trolley Bus.
		The PCC's were only 14 years old in 1953 yet they were destined to be retired just two years after my mom took this photo.
		The PCC's would have been the ideal vehicle as they have proved remarkably durable in other cities.
	www3.telus.net /bjgcelt/brlpc.htm (518 words)

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