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on: 04-28-2011
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4-29-2011 @ 08:49:01 AM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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Philly discontinued streetcar service at some point in the 60's I think and turned it over to buses. The tracks are still in the streets around downtown, but nothing runs on them. The west side has limited light rail, but it's much newer and doesn't use "heritage" equipment.
Pittsburgh still has light rail, they just updated their fleet in the early 90's with newer equipment from Germany, there was a big story in one of my railfan magazines around that time about the last run of the PCC's that were still operating while they updated the track and infrastructure to get ready for the new streetcars (one of the holdups, these PCC's can turn on a dime, so all the looping turn-arounds had to be torn up and re-laid in larger diameter for the new stuff)
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