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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 domestically, and after World War II it was licensed for use elsewhere in the world where PCC based cars were made.
The Swansea and Mumbles Railway ran the world's first passenger tram service in 1807. The horse-drawn tram (horsecar) was an early form of public rail transport, which developed out of industrial haulage routes that had long been in existence, and from the omnibus routes that first ran on public streets in the 1820s [citation needed], using the newly improved iron or steel rail or 'tramway'.
1870: A horse-drawn streetcar of the Spring & Sixth railway in front of the Pico House. Horse-drawn streetcars started with the Spring and Sixth Street Railroad in 1874. [1] Single truck, open air cars traversed unpaved streets. [1] Numerous companies built tracks, with some merging to form larger networks.
The El Paso Streetcar is a streetcar system in El Paso, Texas, that uses a fleet of restored PCC streetcars [6] that had served the city's previous system until its closure in 1974. [7] It opened for service on November 9, 2018.
Both the single-ended cars on the Powell–Hyde and Powell–Mason lines, and the double-ended cars on the California Street line, are of this type. The single-ended cars have a single open section at the front of the car, with a closed compartment at the rear, whilst the double-ended cars have a central closed compartment flanked by open areas ...
This is a list of past and present streetcar (tram), interurban, and light rail systems in the United States. System here refers to all streetcar infrastructure and rolling stock in a given metropolitan area. In many U.S. cities, the streetcar system was operated by a succession of private companies; this is not a list of streetcar operating ...
This exhibit includes images of the power house at the end of the line, a worker emerging from a plow pit where each street car traveling between downtown and the suburbs is converted from collecting underground power with a plow to an overhead trolley pole. Visitors can use the controller handle to start the street car and can operate a dynamo ...
The first car (No. 302) was delivered on March 20, 2015, [15] and at the time of the line's opening in mid-April it was the only car in the fleet. [6] The second car, No. 301, was delivered on May 15, 2015. [16] Dallas ordered two more streetcars in July 2015. [24] The third and fourth cars (Nos. 303–304) were delivered in summer 2016. [25]