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75
1936/37
Brooklyn & Queens Transit Corp. St.Louis Car Co. PCC (Job 1600; 1001-1099
series) - original livery.
In
June 1935 Brooklyn & Queens Transit Corporation awarded two PCC construction
contracts. Clark Equipment Co. built Brooklyn PCC 1000 and St.Louis Car
Co. received order for 99 PCC cars (Job 1600), which were delivered between
August 1936 and January 1937. Most of their life was spent on routes 68
Smith-Coney Island, 69 McDonald-Vanderbuilt and 67S Seventh Ave., all
of which received the new cars between October 1, 1936 and January 20,
1937. For new streamliners, Brooklyn selected an all-new livery, using
the DuPpont Cordova Gray (a very warm gray) unborken except for a Mountain
Laurel Scarlet red beltrail and dark blue-green
moldings. The "next car" light was installed above the headlight
to tell the prospective passengers that the car was full.
Scale: 1:48
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50
75-1
1936/37
Brooklyn & Queens Transit Corp. St.Louis Car Co. PCC #1010 - original
livery.
In
1939 car 1010 was equipped with electric drum brakes (remained until 1955)
and bus-type roof vent was added.
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5
75-2
1936/37
New York City Transit System St.Louis Car Co. PCC #1012 - experimental
1946 livery.
In
June 1940 the New York Transit System was formed but new livery for Brooklyn
PCCs was introduced only in 1946. As experiment, car 1012 was painted
in red, light yellow and gray livery in February 1946 and ran in this
paint scheme until December 1946.
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10
75-3
1936/37
New York City Transit System St.Louis Car Co. PCC (Job 1600; 1001-1099
series) - post'46 - early 1950s livery.
In
June 1946 New York City Transit System painted PCC 1003 in the new agency's
green and silver livery. In December 1946 this paint scheme was adopted
as the standard that would endure to the end of electrified surface transit
in Brooklyn. At that time, the front and rear skirting were already modified.
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35
75-4
1936/37
New York City Transit System St.Louis Car Co. PCC (Job 1600; 1001-1099
series) - 1950s livery.
During
1950s, the Brooklyn PCC cars saw additional modifications. In addition
to front and rear skirting, modified in 1940s, a short original front
and rear anticlimbers were replaced by readily available full-width castings
and wings around the headlight were omitted. The trolley pole shroud color
was changed from silver to green and windshield wiper cowl was painted
silver instead of green. Most of the 100 car fleet of PCC soldiered on
until their 20th birthday in October 1956, but on October 31, 1956 the
last cars were operated on Church and McDonald Avenues, thus ending over
the 60 years of streetcar service. Car 1001 was preserved at the Shoreline
Trolley Museum in Brandford, Connecticut.
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