PCC-II photos from "Trolley Day" in West Philly

Here's one to whet your appetite:



The rest are linked here:
http://subway.com.ru/subchat/read.asp?Id=9680

And my description here:
http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?4,804763

I took 65 pictures in total. I've put 7 online so far, although I have lots of other good ones. Notable was the point around 3pm when a large group of bus fans from NYC all boarded the trolley, filling it to capacity.

Here's some more eye candy for ya.

The new meets the old-new!


And here's something we hope to be seeing quite soon:


BTW pennengineer this is Eric that you spent most of the day with. Hope you had fun.

I had a prior committment which prevented me from arriving in University City prior to 5:15, but I got a few photos of #2328 at 40th and Walnut.

http://www.subwayspot.com/gallery/album69/04_10_16_01

http://www.subwayspot.com/gallery/album69/04_10_16_02

http://www.subwayspot.com/gallery/album69/04_10_16_03

http://www.subwayspot.com/gallery/album69/04_10_16_04

http://www.subwayspot.com/gallery/album69/04_10_16_06

Then at 40th & Spruce I caught #2324 heading east on Spruce and #2320 turning onto Spruce westbound.

http://www.subwayspot.com/gallery/album69/04_10_16_07

http://www.subwayspot.com/gallery/album69/04_10_16_10

http://www.subwayspot.com/gallery/album69/04_10_16_11

http://www.subwayspot.com/gallery/album69/04_10_16_12

http://www.subwayspot.com/gallery/album69/04_10_16_13

By then the light was fading, so I took a trolley in to 15th Street, took the MFSE to 8th and took PATCO home.

http://www.subwayspot.com/gallery/album69/04_10_16_15

http://www.subwayspot.com/gallery/album69/04_10_16_16

I also wanted to add that I was thrilled with the turn out there was today. There were not only railfans, there we students, local residents and regular passengers that got on the cars.

I hope this shows SEPTA that if you just put the cars out there, people will ride them.

Excellent photos everyone! Really impressed with the turnout today. Was in W Philly around lunchtime..and the trolleys were indeed packed. My pix are still in the box...will take to the lab Monday.
-Urban

I too was impressed by the cross section of people the ridership represented. I'd counted on the campus being deserted and almost entirely overrun by railfans clustering around the tracks. The latter did occur, but the former most certainly was not true.

I also had a camera there, and I'll only preview my one pic, which I belive to be the best, you can check the rest of them on my little crappy thumbnails site.



http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~wld25/PCCDay.html

OK what year is it again?...if not for the bubblehead on the PCC and the few autos in the background, it'd be hard to tell.

Urban I think I can 1 up ya on that...

Nice retro shot. Touché.

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Another view...not so retro...

Thank you! The joys of Photoshop!

Anywho I have now posted up a collection of my pics from Saturday in my Yahoo Photo album which can be found here:

http://photos.yahoo.com/gameshowdawg02/

Just a question...

Did the PCC doors always open in? I thought that they used to open out.

... ???

The front doors opened in, while the rear doors opened out: