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Out in Amarillo, we are a long way from the nearest trolley track. However, this morning, as I was leaving for Fort Woeth, I met a big-rig lowboy heading westward with a double-ended PCC on the deck.  The car was sporting a beautiful and fresh paint job -- white with green trim and a yellow roof. Anybody have an idea what transit company might be represented or where the car's destination might be?
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Tom: Is this the car you saw on the rig:
 
 
If so, it's headed for the San Francisco Municipal system having been refurbed at Brookville, PA. 
 
In addition to Pacific Electric and SF Muni, Dallas, Boston (after purchasing the Dallas cars), the Illinois Terminal RR in St. Louis, Philadelphia Suburban (not PTC) and Shaker Heights (msotly SE but with 2 DE PCC's which they acquired from ITRR), had double-ended PCC's in the US. 
 
Bill
Originally Posted by WftTrains:
Tom: Is this the car you saw on the rig:
 
 
If so, it's headed for the San Francisco Municipal system having been refurbed at Brookville, PA. 
 
Bill

That's it, all right.  Thanks for the info, Bill.  It was a real surprise to see it going past downtown Amarillo at 60 MPH.

 

As info, Matt, yes the Pacific Electric did run pre-war double-ended PCC's on the Glendale line.  They had skirts over the place where wheel wells are normally seen, and used the Pullman-Standard rectangular windshields, instead of the later slanted style seen on this PCC and postwar PCC's.

Originally Posted by AGHRMatt:

Thanks for the photo link, Bill. I was thinking one of these was what Tom saw. These were the double-ended ones PE was using. This particular pair were lucky enough to escape to Argentina and avoid the scrapper's torch...at least for a while.

Matt, those aren't PCC cars.

Originally Posted by WftTrains:
Tom: Is this the car you saw on the rig:
 
 
If so, it's headed for the San Francisco Municipal system having been refurbed at Brookville, PA. 
 
In addition to Pacific Electric and SF Muni, Dallas, Boston (after purchasing the Dallas cars), the Illinois Terminal RR in St. Louis, Philadelphia Suburban (not PTC) and Shaker Heights (msotly SE but with 2 DE PCC's which they acquired from ITRR), had double-ended PCC's in the US. 
 
Bill

And the Red Arrow cars were broad gauge!

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