All the Brooklyn PCC photos you could possibly want

[daveklepper]

First, aluminum-Bodied, Clark Equipmemt Co.-constructed 1000, a replacewment for the original St. Louis-built 1000. diverted to Pittsbugh as a sample, operated as their 100.

I believe this car's body is at Kingston, NY, at the museum operation there.

On its regular McDonald=Vanderbilt run. passing a South Brooklyn freight headed by diesel No. 9:

St. Louis  - built 1001, preserved at Shore Line Trolley:

Williamsburg bridge, on and under:

ENY:

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Others in the flock:

At DeKalb Av. Shops:

 

[daveklepper]

Two I lacked time to post on Friday, in the later NYCTS post WWII green-and-silver paint, on what still might be Brooklyn's most beautiful street, Prospect Park West, the 7th Avenue line:

[daveklepper]

These rwo phoros were posted on the Trains Steam and Preservation Forum for 4573 preserved and frequently available for riding at the Shore Line Trolley Musum, but they also show PCC cars.  Both are at the Brooklyln Bridge terminql, Park Row, City Hall, Manhatetan:

[daveklepper]

A Seventh Avenue car on Flatbush Avenue passing a Flatbush Avenue sinngle-end Peter Witt (6200-series) in 1947: 

[daveklepper]

A comparison of the original paint job, here the restoration at Shore Line Trolley and from the website, and the post-1948 scheme at the Coney Island Terminal:

[Flintlock76]

Must be the old military man in me, but I prefer the olive drab paint scheme.  Just looks more businesslike, you know?

[daveklepper]

Not Olive-Drab, 

Pachyderm-Grey

 

[Flintlock76]

daveklepper

Not Olive-Drab, 

Pachyderm-Grey

 

 

Really?  I never would have guessed, it sure doesn't look like it.

I suppose this is a good example of why we shouldn't rely overmuch on color photography to determine vintage paint schemes.  

[daveklepper]

This may be much clser to the truth:

[Flintlock76]

OK, I can see the "Pachyderm Gray" a little better now.

"Pachyderm Gray."  That's an interesting color choice.  Was it chosen in remembrance of the tragic "Brooklyn Bridge Elephant Stampede" of 1929?  

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/staten-island-octopus-brooklyn-bridge-elephants-hoax-memorials  

[daveklepper]

Maybe, but the story I remember is that the color was chosen to least show dirt and grime.

[daveklepper]

After most of the Brooklyln PCCs were repainted into green and silver, a fantrip was organized with one of the remaining grey and scarlet ones, but none of the remaining had missed suffering some body dents.  Photo stops were on lines that did not use PCCs.  I think the dents we removed with a general overhaul before repainting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[daveklepper]

Two more, the second on a regular PCC route, at the 9th Street Gawanus Canal Bridge:

[daveklepper]

And the fsntrip did run into Manhattan at the end of Brooklyn Bridge, Park Ro

 

[daveklepper]

A photo that took a lot of repair work, but an Icon for Brooklyn PCC's.  Given that the background buildings are in Brooklym and where the shadows are pointing, this must be early morning, June 1947 or 1948.  !064 is signed Seventh Av. Park Row.

The tracks saw cable trains opening the bridge, then elevated gate csr trains, with the streetcars on tracks in the roadways, then after 1942, Lexington Avenue and Myrtle Avenue elevated trains cut back to Myrtle, Bridge, and Jay Streets, and streetcars moved from the roadways to the segregated tracks.

 

[daveklepper]

McDonald Avenue, adjacent to Coney Island Shops:

[daveklepper]

Can any tell me what house-of-worship or building of other use belongs to that tower in the background, and is it still there 72-years later than the photo?

[daveklepper]

In addition to having to rewire when a pole jumps from the wire occasionally, one has to clean out switch points on fantrips using routings not used in regular service.  I think this photo is at West 8th St., Coney Island:

[daveklepper]

PCC 1011 in a McDonald-Vanderbilt trip from Coney Island to Park Row - City Hall enters Brooklyn Bridge, while a 6000-series Peter Witt on Putnam or Flushing Avenue is about to exit on the Brooklyn side:

[daveklepper]

Here is another of 1038  on the Fairwell to Packiderm-Grey fantrip, again on the Grayham line:

[daveklepper]

Park Row Terminal at the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge: