PTC 2700 series - builder's photos
On July 21, 1944 Philadelphia
Transportation Company placed an order for 100 PCC cars with St. Louis
Car Company. These were in addition to the 260 PCCs already in service
that had been ordered by PTC in 1938, 1940, and 1942. Due to wartime
manufacturing restrictions, fabrication of the 2700 series streetcars
did not occur until February-April 1947. In 1944, one hundred trolley
cars were needed to serve Route 23 on Germantown Avenue. By 1947, only
eighty-five were needed for Route 23, so fifteen were assigned to Route
42 on Spruce, Chestnut and Walnut Streets. In 2004 this car, 2712, was sold by SEPTA to Brookville Equipment Corporation where it sits rusting in a field. St. Louis Car Company photo - Washington University collection,, used with permission |
St. Louis Car Company PCC trolleys featured an all-welded steel body: no rivets mar the sleek surfaces.
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