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Port Authority Transit PCC 1618 on a fantrip and 1707 on the Library Loop at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on February 26, 1966, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
[ EXPLORE Dec. 2 ~ #245 ]
[San Francisco Municipal Railway]
The PCC (Presidents’ Conference Committee) streetcar (tram) design was first built in the United States in the 1930s. The design proved successful in its native country, and after World War II was licensed for use elsewhere in the world. The PCC car has proved to be a long-lasting icon of streetcar design, and PCC cars are still in service in various places around the world.
The last PCC streetcars built for any North American system were a batch of 25 for the San Francisco Municipal Railway, manufactured by the St. Louis Car Company and delivered in 1951
The San Francisco Municipal Railway (SF Muni or Muni) is the public transit system for the city and county of San Francisco, California.
A GO Transit GM Fishbowl and a TTC PCC are on the Queens Way as they approach Roncesvalles. July 1980.
Port Authority Transit PCC 1783 at South Hills Junction in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on February 26, 1966, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
The "Collingwood Elevated" was a temporary shoofly built to carry PCCs over the excavation for Castro Street Station to and from the Twin Peaks Tunnel. Here, 1108 negotiates the shoofly outbound, as 1150 heads inbound. 1150 will cross Castro and bear right onto 17th Street, the location for today's F-LIne oouter terminal. HDR image from an Ektachrome slide. 18 September 1973. © 2014 Peter Ehrlich
Chariots Coaches VanHool Reg L19 PCC stands in Mardens yard awaiting its turn for attention
18 September 2015
Chariots Coaches VanHool Reg L19 PCC waits in the road outside Mardens shortly after arrival.
7 April 2016
Chariots Coaches VanHool Reg L19 PCC waits in the road outside Mardens shortly after arrival.
7 April 2016
These 5 photos of the same car were taken during the transition between the PCCs and the LRVs. Note the pantograph instead of a trolley pole.
PCC car 1180 leaves the tram museum for a run as Tourist Tram.
Den Haag Wouwermanstraat
24-07-2016
T201607-0259
These 5 photos of the same car were taken during the transition between the PCCs and the LRVs. Note the pantograph instead of a trolley pole.
A former SEPTA PCC now working for the Baltimore Streetcar Museum awaits it's turn at the loading area. April 24, 2016.
Former demonstrator Scania Fencer PC71 PCC (SF21 BUS) is seen in Lincoln, about to head off along Tentercroft Street with the 551 school service to Washingborough on 27.9.22
Technically it's not a real Scania Fencer, but rather the already familiar K230UB chassis with a Fencer body (built by Chinese firm Higer) on top. With Scania now beginning to introduce the 'real' Fencer, with one at the 2022 Euro Bus Expo, it looks like this will be the final K230UB to enter service in the UK? It's a chassis that's had much success in this country, powering the integral Scania Omnilink two and three axle buses and found beneath a good number of Stagecoach's more rugged Enviro 300s.
I can't tell whether the Fencer is going to be sold as a complete vehicle only with the Higer body, or if the diesel and electric chassis are going to be available to be ordered with bodywork by other manufacturers. It'd be nice if we could have an electric Fencer chassis with an ADL double deck body, for example! The politics of chassis/body combinations seem to be weird these days, though, like the Volvo BZL only coming with MCV bodywork (sad Wrightbus noises) and the upsurge in integrals as EVs become increasingly common.
The styling of the body isn't as shockingly bad as some of the stuff currently coming to market, and has thankfully avoided the drab, blocky slab-sidedness of pretty much every other recent design (I'd list them but there's too many - look at a Yutong E12 to see what I mean). Given how the bus at the Expo looked, the trim over the wheel arches that give them a pseudo angled shape might not be carried forward, or available merely as an optional extra, because although they look interesting they're quite unnecessary from an operator's perspective. Same goes for the funny shaped mirrors.
Another 'is that really necessary' feature are the over-the-top amount of diagonal lines, with the rear being the worst offender. The trapezoid glazed area above the passenger side windows is also a bit odd, I reckon it would've looked better if they'd carried it on over the driver's window* (or door on the n/s) too, but at that point I'm being picky. It's still better than the right-angled, straight-edged boringness of the Yutong E10/E12, Caetano E City Gold etc etc.
(*have since realised all the main side windows are that tall, and the end ones have those triangular-shaped parts stuck on to give it the trapezoid shape. So it's actually part of the main side glazing itself, not another piece of glass above)
The front exists. The dash panel is a bit messy and the headlight units look like they've found ones that doesn't quite fit and shoved them in anyway... and I'm sure operators will love getting replacements for those custom shaped units instead of some off-the-shelf BMAC type thing. But I can't complain too much because it doesn't have Wrightbus stealth ugliness or the abomination that is the front of the BZL. And there's plenty of room for the operator to put their name/branding, which PC Coaches have done in very big letters!
My main concern with the front, though, is how tiny the destination blind is, as that's an important, functional part yet it looks like it's been crammed in as an afterthought. The looks of the dash panel are pretty trivial when compared to that. Seriously, the front blind on this is only about as big as the rear blind you'd find on other stuff.
I've written WAYYY more than I intended to, some of which makes it sound as if I don't like the thing. Overall, I do like it though, despite it having some questionable parts to its design. I hope a lot more enter service in the coming years and it doesn't just become another Irizar i3 (of which I can already draw several parallels with). Long live the Scania Fencer... hopefully.
PCC 530 (ex-Newark 10, née Twin City Rapid Transit 329), is working the Silver Line loop. A wheelchair user has just gotten off the car. Sept. 27, 2016. © 2016 Peter Ehrlich
De Lijn PCC 6210 was working a Line 24 service to Rabot when recorded in Hoveniersstraat, Ghent.
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HTM PCC 1210 op de interlokale (intercommunale) lijn 1 van Delft richting Den Haag Turfmarkt op de Hoornbrug. De stroomafnemer passeert het bovenleidingloze deel tussen de vaste brug en het beweegbare wegdeel van de basculebrug. Hier bleven weleens trams steken,
Rijswijk,
23 maart 1975.
Geen daverende foto, maar wel een curiosum. Het is de enige Japanse PCC, in 1954 door Sumitomo gebouwd voor het trambedrijf van Tokyo. De wagen ziet er redelijk goed uit en staat enigszins beschut in een mini-museum bij de tramremise in het noorden van de stad.
A remarkable tram: it doesn't look like it, but it is really a PCC-car. This is the only Japanese PCC-car ever, built in 1954 by Sumitomo for the Tokyo Tramway Company. It's preserved near one of the surviving tramway lines.
The Scania Fencer's home at PC Coaches is undoubtedly the 4 between Lincoln and Nettleham, which is the service it spends the majority of its time on. However, the 4 board also sees it tackle school route 551, which takes it from Washingborough to Cherry Willingham via the city in the morning, and back the other way again in the afternoon.
Engaged in its afternoon school duties, PC71 PCC is seen crossing Pelham Bridge on 27.9.22
MBTA car 3087 pauses at Valley Rd, enroute to Ashmont. Since it was a holiday with long headways between trains, there was just one car doing laps back and forth.
Valley Rd Station
Ashmont-Mattapan High Speed Line - MBTA
HTM PCC 1230 op lijn 3 richting Bohemen,
Bezuidenhoutseweg op kleine verlegging van de baan tijdens bouw viaduct over de Utrechtse Baan,
Den Haag.
04 september 1975.
I was scanning my way through a stack of Roger Puta slides when I came upon just four of MUNI PCC Cars dated December 1980. It's pretty clear Roger was out one winter afternoon in San Francisco playing with the setting sunlight. I know you are going to like these.
The fourth car is a double ender. But all Muni PCCs had a front pole for backup moves. Note how the front trolley pole rope, best seen in the third photo, is wrapped behind the left outside rear view mirror.
2. MUNI 1109, a M OCEAN VIEW BROAD TO PLYMOUTH car outbound on 19th Avenue by Font and Holloway.
Some InterConnect spotting I was intending to do didn't go plan, as I missed the 56 I was after and the Eclipse on the 53 I was wanting got swapped for an E400 when it turned around at Grimsby. Still, the E400 was one I needed so I stuck around and had a look at what else was about - all the usual stuff, really.
The time of day meant the sunlight was perfect for this photo angle up Pelham Street, capturing vehicles as they come down off Melville Street from the north, with the cathedral in the background. PCC's 06 Solo was the first bus to come by as I waited, in a fairly unusual instance of the Nettleham to Lincoln 4 being worked by something other than the Scania Fencer.
Pelham Street, Lincoln, 17.1.23
A Port Authority Transit PCC car crosses the Bausman Street Trestle on the Overbrook Line as it approaches the McKinley Station in this February, 1992 photo.
The Overbrook Line was part of route 47D Drake and it was closed about a year later because of unsafe conditions. Route 47D was cut back to a Drake-Castle Shannon Shuttle and the line did not reopen until more than a decade later. This structure is gone now, replaced with a new bridge.
Blindside portrait of the last PCC built in the United States for street railway service. October 8, 2017. © 2017 Peter Ehrlich
De Lijn PCC 7033 departs from Antwerp Central Station while working a Line 12 service.
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