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St.-Petersburg Tram Collection
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In December 1944 Johnstown Traction Co. received the federal approval for purchase new streetcars and placed the order to St.Louis Car Co. for seventeen PCC cars. They were delivered in January-February 1947, being numbered 401-417. St.Louis B3 trucks were fitted. These all-electric PCCs were obtained for use on the main rail lines and were part of the postwar modernization program which also included GM diesel buses and St.Louis Car Co. trolley coaches. New PCCs were initially placed in service on the Roxbury-Morrellville line and later they were also running between Coopersdale and Ferndale. However,changes in the steel industry push the local unemployment up to unprecedented levels; in late 1950s the only full trolleys in Johnstown were railfan specials and the last cars ran on June 11, 1960. After unsuccesful efforts to sell the cars, remaining sixteen PCC (car 406 had been dismanted after a 1953 dispute with a steam locomotive) were scrapped, but their trucks and electrical equipment were sold to Belgium for use on the new PCC cars for Brussels. .
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1947 Johnstown Traction Co. St.Louis Car Co. PCC (Job 1651; 401-417 series).
Ref.#: SPTC62
Scale: 1:48
Tram/Streetcar
1947
Added to catalog: 11.09.2014
In December 1944 Johnstown Traction Co. received the federal approval for purchase new streetcars and placed the order to St.Louis Car Co. for seventeen PCC cars. They were delivered in January-February 1947, being numbered 401-417. St.Louis B3 trucks were fitted. These all-electric PCCs were obtained for use on the main rail lines and were part of the postwar modernization program which also included GM diesel buses and St.Louis Car Co. trolley coaches. New PCCs were initially placed in service on the Roxbury-Morrellville line and later they were also running between Coopersdale and Ferndale. However,changes in the steel industry push the local unemployment up to unprecedented levels; in late 1950s the only full trolleys in Johnstown were railfan specials and the last cars ran on June 11, 1960. After unsuccesful efforts to sell the cars, remaining sixteen PCC (car 406 had been dismanted after a 1953 dispute with a steam locomotive) were scrapped, but their trucks and electrical equipment were sold to Belgium for use on the new PCC cars for Brussels. .
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