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    The Presidents' Conference Committee (PCC) is a streetcar design that was first built in the United States in the 1930s. The design proved successful...
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  • Construction Commission, a government agency in Taiwan PCC streetcar (Presidents’ Conference Committee) PCC streetcar in Toronto Personal Car Communicator, in Volvo...
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    The El Paso Streetcar is a streetcar system in El Paso, Texas, that uses a fleet of restored PCC streetcars that had served the city's previous system...
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    Peter Witt streetcars it was ordering could pass without sideswiping. Between 1938 and 1945, it placed five orders for air-electric PCC streetcars to replace...
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    Committee Car was a streetcar used by the Toronto Transportation Commission and the Toronto Transit Commission. The PCC streetcar was designed by the...
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    legacy systems using PCC streetcars have since replaced their PCC cars with modern light rail vehicles, although restored vintage PCC cars are still in regular...
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    pantograph current collection. Previously, two PCC and one Peter Witt cars were used on regular streetcar tracks, on a private-rental basis as well as for...
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    21st century, Kenosha constructed a modern electric streetcar system utilizing historic PCC streetcars in coordination with the HarborPark development on...
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    sub-fleets: PCC streetcars, Peter Witt streetcars, pre-PCC veteran streetcars from San Francisco, and a diverse collection of 10 streetcars and trams from...
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    Mattapan Line (category Streetcars in the Boston area)
    as a conversion of a former commuter rail line. It exclusively uses PCC streetcars built in the 1940s. Passengers must transfer at Ashmont to access the...
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    Pennsylvania Transport Authority (SEPTA) donated to the NPS a streamlined 1947 PCC streetcar that had earlier served Philadelphia. The NPS installed the historic...
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    The PCC III is a series of upgraded PCC streetcars used by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for its...
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    1938, twelve PCC streetcars were introduced on the Bloor line replacing twelve trailers. By November 5, all trailers had been replaced by PCCs. By December...
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    509 Harbourfront (category Streetcar routes in Toronto)
    operating in 1990 using rebuilt PCC streetcars belonging to the TTC's A-15 PCC classification. (The A-15 class PCCs were rebuilt from A-9 class cars...
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    Tram (redirect from Streetcar)
    controller which incorporate a dead man's switch. The success of the PCC streetcar had also seen trams use automobile-style foot controls allowing hands-free...
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    automobile. TCRT No. 322 was a Presidents' Conference Committee, or PCC streetcar built by the St. Louis Car Company in 1946. It operated in the Twin...
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    Railways and Electric Company Peter Witt streetcar model, built in 1930 by J. G. Brill Company. A predecessor of the PCC car and about equal to one in every...
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    streetcars. Peter Witt (Toronto streetcar) LM-33 – Russian version of the Peter Witt Birney Safety Car, an alternate contemporary car PCC streetcar,...
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    streetcars and the TTC took advantage of other cities' streetcar removals by purchasing extra PCC cars from Cleveland, Birmingham, Kansas City, and Cincinnati...
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    standardized PCC streetcars had done decades prior. Boston (with its older streetcar tunnel systems) and San Francisco (with a new Muni Metro streetcar tunnel...
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    Silver Line (San Diego Trolley) (category Heritage streetcar systems)
    considered unfeasible. Eventually, in 2005, MTS would settle on using PCC streetcars, which were formerly used by the San Diego Electric Railway, San Diego's...
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  • Since Clark was one of the participants in the development of the PCC streetcar in the 1930s, they produced 80% of the bogies for this type of trolleycar...
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    year, and generate more than $20 million in fare revenue. A popular PCC streetcar on San Francisco's F Market & Wharves line is painted bright yellow...
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    Twin City Rapid Transit Company (category Streetcars in Minnesota)
    1945, the company received its first streamlined PCC streetcar. The following years saw dozens of new PCC cars on the streets, although the first one remained...
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    the first PCC streetcars began running on 14th Street NW. By early 1946, the company would place in service 489 of the streamlined, modern PCC model and...
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    on new streetcar construction. The KCPS ultimately acquired 184 PCC vehicles. Famed Kansas City developer J. C. Nichols constructed streetcar lines to...
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    ""Newest" PCC Streetcar Collides with Truck". Market Street Railway. January 2, 2018. Ehrlich, Peter (August 22, 1990). "MUNI F-LINE PCCs--Ex-SEPTA 2133...
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    As with many large cities, a large number of Boston-area streetcar lines once existed, and many continued operating into the 1950s. However, only a few...
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    Railway Presidents' Conference Committee, which produced the PCC streetcar (although PCCs did not see service in Fort Worth until the advent of the Tandy...
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    SEPTA subway–surface trolley lines (category Streetcars in Pennsylvania)
    Philadelphia uses rigid vehicles roughly 4 feet (1,219 mm) longer than the PCC streetcar they replaced. The lines use Kawasaki Type K LRVs delivered in 1981–82...
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