Pittsburgh Receiving 100 New P.C.C. Cars

The first of 100 new all-electric PCC cars, built by St. Louis Car Co. for 
Pittsburgh Railways Co., was delivered early in December and is now in 
service.  
When all 100 of the newest cars have been received, Pittsburgh Railways will 
have in service a fleet of 666 PCCs ----second only to Chicago Transit 
Authority's 683 units.  The new cars will cost $2,835,000.  Pittsburgh 
Railways has now spent a total of more than $12,300,000 for PCC cars since 
they were interdicted in 1936.

The new cars include a number of improvements over earlier PCC cars that have 
been developed through the continuing efforts of Transit Research Corp. and 
the Advisory Committee on PCC Cars of the American Transit Association 
Mechanical Division.

Interurbans News and Views 11-12/1948




