Philadelphia  –  Final PCC

Rail Transit Online, December 2004

The last of 18 remanufactured PCCs, No. 2337, was released by Brookville Equipment Co. on Nov. 22 and shipped to Philadelphia, where it arrived the next day.  The cars will be used to restore rail service on Route 15-Girard, which was “temporarily” converted from trolleys to buses in 1992.  The service was to be restored last June 13 but was put on hold because residents — and their political representatives — along three blocks of North 59th Street between Vine Street and Girard Avenue object to a parking ban on one side of the street, which is used to access SEPTA’s Callowhill Depot.  With autos parked on both sides, there would be insufficient clearance for the streetcars to pass.  Residents feel they’ve been neglected by SEPTA during the planning process and their objections have blocked city council approval of the change in parking rules.