Connecticut Company: Boston Wartime PCC

Monday, July 19, 2010

Boston Wartime PCC

I have just received word that Chris Perry will be coming down this weekend to resume work on Boston Elevated Railway car 3100. The car has been moved down into Lusa Car Yard so that the tools in the Lusa Car Shop are easily accessible.

Car 3100 is a President's Conference Committee (PCC) car. It was known as one of the Wartime PCCs as it was built in 1944. Due to the war shortages, the wartime cars were equipped with all steel roofs, non-stainless steel fittings, and air-electric controls. These cars were NOT equipped with roof fans. By 1986, the Wartime fleet was replaced by the LRV and 3100 came to the Connecticut Trolley Museum.

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"Connecticut Company" is NOT an official blog of the Connecticut Trolley Museum. The articles posted within this site are the views of the contributors only and do not necessarily reflect the views of the organization.

This blog site is named after the original Connecticut Company or ConnCo, which ran trolleys throughout Connecticut from 1910 to 1948. ConnCo was a subsidy of the New Haven Railroad. By 1948, ConnCo converted all trolley operation to buses, and the era came to a close in Connecticut.

However, eight years prior, in 1940, the Connecticut Electric Railway Association was formed in an effort to preserve a streetcar from Hartford. In 1941, CERA saved its first car, ConnCo 65 from the scrapper. When trolley service ended in 1948, CERA saved 7 more ConnCo cars.

Today, the Connecticut Trolley Museum is the oldest incorporated museum dedicated to railway preservation in the country. Although not the largest, CTM's has a collection covering many of the major types of trolley cars including streetcars, interurbans, elevated cars, and work cars from the Northeast, Midwest, Deep South and Internationally as well.