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Bill Smith
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« on: September 01, 2011, 04:28:56 PM »
Camera: c. 1960 Nikon F, Nikkor S 50 f1.4 lens. Film: Kodak Plus X 125 processed in Xtol 1+1.


PCC Car by Bill Smith1, on Flickr
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« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2011, 06:56:20 PM »
We've got one of those Bill, in the Virginia Museum of Transportation.  It came from the Washington, D.C. system, and because they would not rebuild their turntables, they ordered their PCC's with one less window so they would fit.

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« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2011, 04:21:44 AM »
The TTC still has two PCC cars for special event and film rentals and they get used. There's a Trolley museum north of me with a bunch old TTC PCC cars in working condition and I have to get up there at some point for a photo shoot.
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« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2011, 05:05:40 AM »
We're still running 'em here, as is SF. "Ashmont-Mattapan High-Speed Line" here, and part of the Muni system in SF...

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« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2011, 06:37:10 AM »
Quote from: brazile on September 03, 2011, 05:05:40 AM
We're still running 'em here, as is SF. "Ashmont-Mattapan High-Speed Line" here, and part of the Muni system in SF...

Robert


Toronto retired the PCC cars in the 1990s in favour of the ones in the back of the photo, nowhere near as cool.
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« Reply #5 on: September 03, 2011, 07:09:25 PM »
Bill,

That's a nice subject, but wow, what a classic camera/lens you used.  My compliments.

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