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Peter Witt streetcars that are not PCCs

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Posted by rcdrye on Thursday, October 26, 2017 5:38 PM

Cleveland had several series, including an articulated variant.  Not surprising since Peter Witt was a Cleveland Transit Commissioner.  His non-transit claim to fame was inventing the paper clip.  Cleveland's 1913 center-entrance cars were sort of a test run for the Peter Witt traffic flow concept, and the relatively poor performance of their design led to moving the entrance to the front for later models.  Center-entrance trailers operated regularly in trains with Peter Witt motors.

Toronto, Baltimore, Rochester and Chicago ("Sedans") also had non-PCC Peter Witts.

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Peter Witt streetcars that are not PCCs
Posted by daveklepper on Thursday, October 26, 2017 4:21 AM

Hope to see others contribute.  Brooklyn had about 586 doublo-enders, (8000-8585) the largest fleet of double-enders, and 200 single-end 6000-6099, 6100-6199, the latter with comfortable leather-covered seats).  I'll start with some of the double-enders.  Before ordering the single enders, 86 of the last double-end cars were modified to normally operate as single-end with a turnstile at the front to speed loading.  This was followed through on the single-end Peter Witts, and even some old end-door convertables (4100s) were so modified.  And the PCCs had turnstiles too.

Starting some double-end Peter Witts:

 

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