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Chicago Streetcar Pictorial The PCC Car Era 1936-1958 CERA Bulletin #146 w/ DVD
Chicago Streetcar Pictorial The PCC Car Era 1936-1958 CERA Bulletin #146
Includes Bonus DVD: Chicago Streetcar Memories
By Jeffrey Wien, David Sadowski,
Hardbound with dustjacket
440 pages Sealed, appears to never have been opened
Copyright 2015
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Special Acknowledgement by David Sadowski
About the Authors
Dedication
Forward
Chicago's Streetcar Corporate History Synopsis
The Rise and Fall of the Modern Streetcar in Chicago
Map of Streetcar Lines (as of 1950)
4 Cottage Grove
8 Halsted
20 Madison - Madison/Fifth
22 Clark-Wentworth
36 Broadway-State
Andre Kristopans' Story
42 Halsted/Downtown
49 Western
63 63rd Street
The Last Chicago Streetcar
Preserved Chicago PCC Cars
4021 story
4391 Story
The Story of the Acquisition of CTA PCC 4391 by Frank Hicks
Tribute PCCs in Kenosha and San Francisco
PCC Roster
Chicago PCC Trivia
1936 PCCs Car Plan
St. Louis Car Company Post-War PCCs Car Plan
Pullman-Standard Post-War PCCs Car Plan
One-man Conversion PCCs Car Plan
Putting it Together by Bradley Criss, Photo Editor
Bibliography
DVD: Chicago Streetcar Memories
Ask anyone who has ever ridden a modern Chicago streetcar what it was like, and they will tell you that is was unlike any other type of vehicle that one could ride in a city street. The cars seemed to glide down the street without the bumpy sensations found on a modern motor bus, trolley bus, or automobile. With their trucks hiding behind full skirts, they looked as though they were floating on air.
In the late 1930s, the Chicago Surface Lines brought the concept of the modem streetcar to the city on Madison Street. These cars were called PCC Cars because they had been conceived by a group of Electric Street Railway executives that was called the Presidents' Conference Committee (PCC). After the end of the Second World War, the Chicago Surface Lines purchased 600 more PCC cars with the thought that this large fleet of modern streetcars would serve the citizens of Chicago for many years to come.
Through photographs, we will take you on a journey covering the eight streetcar lines that were equipped with PCC cars by the Chicago Surface Lines and later the Chicago Transit Authority between 1936 and 1958.
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