pcc

Several of MUNI's historic PCC fleet bask in the sunlight at the Mission Bay maintenance facility. Car 1008 in the foreground is part of MUNI's original fleet and is a likely candidate for restoration. It can operate under its own power but is in bad shape.

The amber tail light of a San Francisco MUNI PCC car glows as it pauses at a street corner.

Profile shot of MUNI car 1063, representing Baltimore's interurban system.

Profile shot of SF MUNI car 1051, painted in an early MUNI paint scheme.

San Francisco is still one place where you can find classic PCC cars plying their routes. Here, cars representing Birmingham Electric and an early SF MUNI paint scheme head east on Market Street. Directly behind is one of MUNI's more modern vehicles. In the distance, a third PCC car representing...

TOEI (Tokyo metropolitan government bureau of transportation) 5501 is the PCC car for TODEN line #1 (Shinagawa - Ginza - Ueno), manufactured in 1954. 5501 retired in Dec.1967 and restored in May. 2007. Nowadays, TOEI preserves 5501 at Toden-omoide-hiroba (next to Arakawa-shako stn. in Arakawa...

Originally built in 1947, a Septa PCC trolley passes below a vintage 1963 Budd Silverliner II. What year is it again?

With the Zoo balloon overhead, a Septa PCC-II car makes its turn on College Ave

PCC trolleys made a welcome return to Septa's Route 15 on Sept 4th.

Controls on a modernized San Francisco Muni PCC Car #1050.

San Francisco Muni uses PCC and other vintage cars on their F line along Fisherman's Wharf. Here is #1050 in September 2003.

Palouse River Coulee City 2357 leads a southbound manifest train through Plaza, WA on December 29, 2003.

Westbound along 54th Street at 5th Ave., #4616 stops to discharge passengers on a beautiful fall afternoon in southeast Wisconsin.

A lone PCC streetcar shares the shop tracks at SEPTA's Elmwood Depot in Philadelphia. SEPTA has a few PCC cars restored for historic trolley operations. Steve Barry photo.