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Baltimore museum, others acquire NJ Transit PCCs
Car 4 arrived in Union Il last week.
Destinations of the rest of the fleet can be discerned here:
CORRECTION: The name of the Minneapolis-St Paul streetcar company is Twin City Rapid Transit Company, not “Cities.” This error has become as ubiquitous as the common error of stating that the location of the driving of the last spike on the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869 is “Promontory Point” rather than the correct Promontory summit.
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The El Paso PCC’s (former San Diego Electric Railway) have been stored in the desert in a secure area for several years. it is the intent of the city to start a new streetcar line using these PCC’s. This is from the ‘El Paso Streetcar Newsletter’,
“We brought Karl Johnson, the streetcar maintenance supervisor for San Francisco Muni, to El Paso to evaluate our cars. He pronounced them in good condition, candidates for restoration. Fortunately, City Council recognized that our plan made sense and voted to restore the PCCs rather than buy replicas.”
Funding still looks questionable, but they hope to start a 24 month construction project in early 2015 and be up and running soon after.
NJ Transit #10 is going to San Diego MTS and should be operating as PCC #530 sometime next summer.
which museum in PA?
Great to see our former TCRT cars still running and in service including San Francisco. We have one here in Minneapolis running on the local museum. Does anyone know the status of the ex-TCRT cars that ran on the Shaker Heights system?
Nice pictures accomodating the article!!!
Just don’t leave it in a flood zone. Don’t get me started…
Aside: what is the status of the El Paso, TX PCC cars? A number of them were stored downtown when I was stationed at Fort Bliss in 1977. Long time ago…
This is a testament to how well the PCC’s has lasted. The PCC’s were very innovative at their inception and have endured the test of time very well.
I rode the city subway hundreds of times going to Downtown Newark or Penn. Station. It was so sad to see the PCC’s retire and give way to the light rail cars.
The original paint scheme should be Public Service Coordinated Transport NOT NJT.
Hopefully some forward thinking community (like SanFrancisco, CA) will buy this fleet of PCC’s fix them up and run them in regular service. The service on Market Street with these cars is truly amazing!!!
I was at Penn. Station Newark in either 68 or 69 when I saw a sign for The Newark City Subway. I was surprised to see that Newark had a subway. So, I went down to see the subway. I was amazed when I heard the sound of a bell and I saw a trolley car. So, I rode it one stop and rode it back. I have ridden the subway several times over the years. I had made a Christmas card of the trolley car one year. I miss the PCC.