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PCC Trolley #4607 - azrymuseum.org/Projects/PCC_Trolley/PCC_Trolley.htm

Designed by a group of transit operators, the “PCC” designation stands for “Presidents Conference Committee”.

Built by the Canadian Car and Foundry Division of the St. Louis Car Company for the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) under a 1950/1950 order.

Delivered to the TTC on March 7, 1951, the model A-8 was originally TTC # 4536. The car was removed from service for a rebuild after 1,087,799 miles, and was “out shopped” on February 14, 1990. It returned to service following an upgrade rebuild to a model A-15 and was renumbered to 4607.

4607 was operated by the TTC for another 63,773 miles (1,151,572 total miles). Removed from full active service in 1992, 4607 made its final revenue run on the 504 King Route, with the final stop at the Dundas West Station at 10:00 PM, December 8, 1995.

Through arrangements with the Halton County (Ontario) Radial Museum, 4607 was sold to the City of Phoenix in 1996 and two cars (4608 went to Tucson) were shipped to Arizona by flatbed rail service. The car was put on display at the Transportation Center in Phoenix where it remained until June 26, 2010 , when it was purchased by the Museum and delivered to the waiting track panel where it currently sits. The track panel was built by the volunteers and the car is isolated as it has a non-standard gauge of 4’ 10 7/8”.

PCC 4607 is 46’ in length, seats 46 and has a dry weight of 37,400 #. Normal Usage Load with standees totals 103 at 53,000# and lists a “crush” load of 134 passengers at 57,650#.

Power is supplied by 4 electric motors operating on 600 Volts DC. The motors are each rated at 48 HP/36 KW in continuous service; and 55 HP/41KW for 1 hour. Electrical supply is by overhead wire and a single arm.

Streetcars were a common form of transportation in U.S. cities from the late 1800s to the late 1900s. They were also called "trolley cars" because of their overhead electric trolley poles.

This car is an example of a "PCC car," designed in the 1930s by the electric railways Presidents' Conference Committee to modernize streetcar service. This car served the city of Toronto, Canada, from 1951 until 1995. The Phoenix streetcar system did not have PCC cars, but the city purchased this one in 1996 for a transit display at 1st Avenue and Van Buren streets. Then, to make room for new construction, they sold this car to the museum in 2010.

Today, as cities become more congested, electric street railways are once again being built to satisfy ongoing transportation needs.

PCC cars ran in 27 U.S. cities, 3 Canadian cities, and 7 other foreign cities. Toronto had the largest PCC fleet in the world, with over 700 cars. It retired most of them in the 1990s because autos and buses had become a more popular form of transportation.

Of the nearly 5,000 PCC cars built between 1935 and 1952, most were built by the St. Louis Car Company, and some by Pullman-Standard. They were powered by a 600-volt overhead electrical system, with magnetic brake pads between the wheels which pressed against the rails to slow the car. Most of these cars were single-ended and were turned on a loop at the end of their runs. They had 50-60 seats and could hold an additional 40-50 standees, with a "crush load" capacity of 134.

The Toronto cars were assembled by Canadian Car & Foundry from body shells and trucks provided by the St. Louis Car Company. This particular one was built in 1951 as Toronto Transit Commission No. 4536, class A8, with a non-standard "Toronto gauge" of 4 ft 10 7/8 inches. It was rebuilt into class A15 in 1990 and renumbered No. 4607, retired in 1995, and sold to the city of Phoenix in 1996.

The city of Phoenix installed it at a display location next to its downtown Transit Center and placed two historical buses alongside. This display site was dismantled in 2010 because of proposed new construction. The city offered it to the Arizona Railway Museum for the sum of $1, and even trucked it to the museum's Tumbleweed Park location where it arrived on June 26, 2010. It can't run on regular museum trackage because of its non-standard rail gauge, so it sits on its own special section of track.

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