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Description
Limited edition of
62
1947
Johnstown Traction Co. St.Louis Car Co. PCC (Job 1651; 401-417 series).
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.
Scale 1:48
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Available SPTC, Holland
Electric Railway Operation
