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[quote user="saxhorn"] was anyone ever in Washington D.C. when Capitol Transit ran PCCs?  did anyone read my question thereabout?  i have not seen a reply that indicates so.   the city forbad overhead; the streetcars gathered electricity from underground conduit accessed by a plough attached to the car through a slot between the tracks, NOT with overhead wire -- the poles were tied down.  the change(s) were made by workers by hand in a trench at city limits, as normal overhead wire was permitted outside city llimits, whence the PCCs proceeded "normally."  this procedure may have pre-dated PCCs, but those are all i remember.  if i could find my book on the History of Capitol Transit all might be clarified (but the book has been misplaced).  underground plough pickup was rare but, IIRC, not limited to Washington D.C.  i feel i put out an interesting question which no one has read, or has bothered to address, or knows anything about and is hence ignoring.  (or maybe i'm in the wrong place..........)  y'all are self-proclamed "transit experts," and there have been mentions of TTs, but ................[/quote] I lived in DC during the last half of 1960 and the first half of 1961.  I lived off of DuPont Circle, I believe it was on N Street. I remember the PCCs that ran in the district.  The contact poles, as you have noted, were secured whilst the cars ran in the district, and the cars drew their power from the pough - I did not know what it was called - that fitted through a slot between the tracks. Your question is not clear.  Are you asking about how they changed the switches?  Or how the plough was engaged?  Or how they switched from overhead to underground power, although I think that you have covered that operation.
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