[PRCo] Re: To PCC or Not to PCC?.......That is the Question.

[Kenneth Josephson]

I forgot to mention this, too. Chicago's Red Pullman surface cars were designed and
built as P.A.Y.E. (Pay As You Enter) cars. Both the North Shore Line and Milwaukee
Electric ordered similiar cars, also designated "P.A.Y.E." cars. The latter two
properties rebuilt theirs as one man units later the cars' lives. Few riders or
fans, if anybody, referred to them as "Pay As You Enter" cars after their
conversion. Some referred to them as "former two man cars." That could even be
applied to some Philly and all Chicago PCC streetcars, since they entered service
with two man crews.

John Q. Public associates the body style as being what defines a streetcar as a
"PCC." We know better. After all, we traction fans don't refer to horse cars as
"horse drawn trolleys", nor do we call Muni's cable cars "trolleys."

Ken J.