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:iconzcochrane:
Seems like nobody cares about my attempts at vector stuff, so here's another railroad picture.

Everybody knows about San Francisco's Cable Cars. What isn't so well known, at least on my side of the Atlantic, is that there's also a historic streetcar line. While this isn't exactly on the same level as the cable cars, it certainly makes for a lot of interesting pictures.

Streetcar 1057, a PCC car, is painted in the colors of a Cincinnati streetcar operator. There's a good chance it's never been to Cincinnati, though, as Market Street Railway, the ones responsible for the line, like to paint their cars in the colors of cities all over the US.
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*CharukuNova Dec 5, 2010
nice love these streetcars. The reason for the different paint shcemes is Muni wanted to reprasent all the cities that ran these cars. ^^

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~CooL-Thing Feb 26, 2009
LOLZ

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~steamby51 Feb 21, 2009
ITS A PCC!!!!!! we have these still operating the mattapan & ashmont line in boston.

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~ZCochrane Feb 22, 2009  Student Photographer
Nice to hear that they are still in regular service elsewhere. I quite liked them when I was in San Francisco.

Thank you for the :+fav:! :)

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~steamby51 Feb 22, 2009
Yeah, they ride so smoothly!

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~LPBrennan Dec 5, 2008
Ah- the PCC. A handsome design and a revolutionary car. Hard to believe that the basic design of these cars dates to 1935. Almost three-quarters of a century, yet it is not dated. The most successful streetcar ever.
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~ZCochrane Dec 6, 2008  Student Photographer
Yes, especially if you consider that streetcars with PCC-derived design have been used all over the world, and in many places still are in daily use and will probably remain so for the foreseeable future.

Thank you for the :+fav:!

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~LPBrennan Dec 6, 2008
You're welcome.

I've read the book ';PCC: The Car That Fought Back" and know about their world-wide use. I have actually run a PCC on Boston's Ashmont-Mattapan line. In 1986, my friend Bill and I were taking pictures of them one Saturday. A motorman noticed us and asked if we would like to run it. What do you think??? There weren't many passengers, Bill and I were both wearing white shirts with dark ties, and we looked interested. He Bill (a native of Boston) had run streetcars at museums but never a PCC. He showed us what to do, watched how we did it, and for several hours we took turns. The motorman explained that he liked antique motorcycles, and a friend of his had recently let him ride a 1925 Indian bike that he had restored. He had enjoyued the thrill of being allowed to ride the old bike and figured we would get the same thrill by running the car. He was right!
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~HerrDrayer Apr 1, 2008  Hobbyist Photographer
For details about the history of San Francisco's Muni historic streetcar service, check out the link below.

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It turns out, that the Muni owns a total of 17 PCC cars. Fourteen of them were purchased from Philadelphia.
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~HerrDrayer Apr 1, 2008  Hobbyist Photographer
If I remember correctly, the San Francisco Muni bought most of the PCC cars used from other transit authorities that were switching to buses and restored them. A significant portion of the San Francisco cars have previously served in one or two other cities. Kansas City used to have over a hundred miles of trams, and most of them were PCC. They were sold to Canadian cities in the '50's, then sold to San Francisco when the Canadian cities upgraded to modern LRV's from Bombardier or Siemens.
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