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After a final procession in 1956 for two dozen sturdy PCC streetcars — the postwar standard ... Mexico City and replaced by smoke-belching GM diesel buses. White flight was just getting underway.
A few days after vandals targeted a historic streetcar at the MBTA’s Boylston Station last November, Scott Page’s inbox started pinging. The messages from fellow T workers had a common theme ...
The first of six Presidents’ Conference Committee (PCC) streetcars dating to 1937 were returned to the west Texas city on March 19, following a detailed restoration and modernization program at ...
The association says the streetcar service of 1940s era PCC streetcars would get a lot of tourism because it would be like taking a trip back in time. The goal would be to connect Louisville's ...
Presidents' Conference Committee (PCC) Streetcars ran between El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua from 1950 until 1973, ferrying millions of passengers over the Rio Grande and giving them ...
Although PCC streetcars were a fixture in a number of cities during their years of production, photos of them always seem quintessentially Toronto to me. Produced between 1936 and 1952 ...
1, 1921 (a major improvement over the virtually uncontrollable, privately owned Toronto Railway Company), the commission has acquired a wide variety of electric streetcars. Over the years ...
Following the introduction of the Peter Witt cars, Toronto first batch of Presidents' Conference Committee (PCC) streetcars are introduced in 1938. They would stay in service until 1995 ...
Eventually, Lancaster Streetcar Co. plans to send the 1940s-era PCC streetcar to Warren, Warren County, where it can be restored. A complete rebuilding will likely cost between $350,000 and $ ...
In 1930 the electric streetcar ruled Chicago. Though most people didn’t realize it, Chicago Surface Lines’ old reliable red cars were already on their way out. A streetcar line is basically an ...