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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This particular trolley car is known as a PCC (President’s Conference Committee) car. Commissioned by the Electric Railway President’s Conference in 1929, the PCC was designed to compete against the ...
El Paso Streetcar No. 1506 was on the tracks last night doing a test run with city officials. MORE:A Closer Look Inside PCC Streetcar 1506 The newly restored cart was being driven by Sun Metro ...
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 ...
It reportedly started 31 years ago when its owner Edward Metka acquired 14 retired PCC streetcars—widely used pre- and post-WWII—from Boston’s MBTA. Since then, Metka has accumulated close ...