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Posted by jan k. lorenzen on Wed Oct 3 23:56:44 2012, in response to PCC and other Trolley Question?????, posted by Avid Reader on Wed Oct 3 17:52:34 2012. The other true double end PCC's were the SFMuni "Torpedos" from 1948. Several of the survivors have just been extensively rebuilt for service on a new line that does not use loops.As far as pantographs use, probably the first US design PCC's to have them were the ex-DC cars that went to Sarajevo, Yugoslavia in 1960. Most were wrecked and/or retired by the 80's. One car, #71 survived the civil war and is part of the Sarajevo historic fleet. Not technically in the US, but they were US PCC's using pans. Same with the ex-LA narrow guage cars that went to Chile. Pittsburgh I beleive was the first US PCC operator to use pans, but Shaker did the same around the same time, I'd have to look at my books for the actual dates. There were some other Early european PCC operators that had locally built PCC's (or made from St. Louis Car kits) with pans, notably Den Haag, and Belgrade about 1950. |
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