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The Con-Cor HO PCC Car Model:

     Con-Cor chose to model a "Pre-War" model of the PCC car as the Los Angeles PCC #3001 car has been preserved at the Orange Empire Railway Museum near Los Angles, this car was built in May 1937 and is still running and giving Tourists and Streetcar buffs a short ride at the Museum today, 71 years after it was first built !

      The major difference between the "Pre-WW II" PCC and "Post-WWII" version was that those built after WW-II had the "Standee" windows above the side windows. Our model is of the "Pre-War II" car without the standee windows. Although some of the photos shown are of "Standee" cars where we could not find good color photos of that paint scheme on a Pre-War II car body. Please do not be confused, the only version of the PCC body we are making is the "Pre-War II" car as shown in the photo above of the Los Angeles car.

      While the PCC car was a "Standard Design" bureucrates in the individual cities that bought them had to add some "personal" touches, such as extra lights, wider Anticlimbers etc etc. We can not model each and every variation. So we chose to stick with the Los Angeles car which is typical in most details to the original PCC Car design.

      We wish to give a big THANK YOU to George L Huckaby, Custom Traxx, Inc. for helping us with this project and making various trips to the Museum to gather photos and do research on paint schemes.

Features

  • DCC Ready with NMRA 8 pin plug
  • Space for Speaker mount
  • All wheel drive
  • Powereful 5 pole motor
  • Interior with lighting
  • Working headlights, tail lights.
  • Authentic paint schemes
  • Runs on tight 9 inch radius
  • Motorman figure
  • "Next Car Light" (Where appropriate, see comments below)

** Next Car Light:

      Some (but not all) cities used what they called a "Next Car light". This was an extra Red light on the front of the PCC car which the motorman could turn on and off as needed. When turned on, it told the passengers waiting at the next stop, that this streetcar would not be stopping, either it was "full" or "out of service" and heading back to the car barn.

      ** Con-Cor is adding the "Next Car Light" to some of the cars were appropriate, but this fuction can only be accessed in "DCC" mode when you add a DCC decoder (not supplied with the model). And then the P-3 Function control can be used to turn the "Next Car Light" On or Off as it is traveling down the tracks.

     Of the first 12 roadnames offered, only the Brooklyn; SF Muni; and Pacific Electric Roadnames will have a built in Next Car Light (Per Prototype). If you want to re-paint a model for your own Railway using the "Next Car Light" we suggest using the Brookyn car as that has the easiest paint scheme to re-paint.

Paint Schemes:

      Most cities had various paint schemes on their PCC cars over the years, we picked out the one for the following Cities we felt best represented the Paint Scheme that is the most well known.

     We are offering these cars two ways, first version is fully Decorated with appropriate colors, Car Number, and Transit system logo (if it was used on the car, some cities did not put a logo on all cars.)

Note on Colors:

     Very few color photos exist from the late '30s and '40s. Many that exist have faded from true colors. Plus many of the paints used were lead or cadmium based which are now outlawed, so we have matched paint colors as close as we can from all the information available and taken into account photos taken in shade, cloudy days fading of paint colors due to exposure to the sun, etc.

     The 2nd group of numbers you will see listed below, are in the various city paint schemes, but no lettering is applied, so for those of you who might want to decal a car in your own lettering scheme. See more details below...

(01-93001 Los Angeles PCC) (01-93002 Philly "Cream Cheese Scheme") (01-93003 Brooklyn PCC)

(01-93004 Chicago "Green Hornet") (01-93005 Pittsburg Red and Cream) (01-93006 San Fran. "Magic Carpet Scheme")

(01-93007 Civil Defense) (01-93008 Pacific Electric) (01-93009 D.C. Transit)

(01-93010 Philly Orange/Blue) (01-93011 Baltimore) (01-93012 Boston)

For those of you who wish to have there own "private" roadnames, you can order same paint scheme as shown above, but without any printing, see 01-093050 series listed below.

(01-93050 No name, Orange and Tan)

First Group we hope to release sometime in the Fall 2008
Retail Price $159.98 

0001-093001  Los Angeles Car # 3001 (Two Tone yellow)
0001-093002  Philadelphia (Philly Cream Cheese scheme)
0001-093003  Brooklyn Car #   (Tan) (Has Next Car Light)**
0001-093004  Chicago (Green Hornet Scheme)
0001-093005  Pittsburg (Red and Cream Scheme)
0001-093006  San Fran. Muni "Magic Carpet Scheme" (Has Next Car Light)**


 2nd Group of PCC Cars to be released Winter 2008 / 09 

0001-093007  Join Civil Defense Car (Flag Blue / white / Red)
0001-093008  Pacific Electric (Red / orange) (Has Next Car Light)**
0001-093009  D.C. Transit
0001-093010  Philladephia Orange/ Blue
0001-093011  Baltimore 
0001-093012  Boston Elevated Railway
Unlettered Versions of the Con-Cor PCC cars

     The HO PCC cars listed below, are fully painted in the color scheme listed, but no lettering applied, for those of you who might want to decal a car for your own city, or private transit system.

     We are offering them in all these color schemes so you have a wide choice of colors schemes to choose from for your own "private" Transit system. Or maybe add a 2nd car of the same city scheme but with a different Car number than that offered in the lst group above.

     We will be suppling a decal sheet inside each box of the cars listed below with a limited assortment of City Transit Logos and numbers matching the cars produced in the fully decorated series, including some extra destination board decals. 


0001-093050  Orange and Tan 
--best choice if you want to repaint to different color
--just use the Orange and Tan as primer coat 

0001-093051  LA Two Tone yellow paint- no printing)
0001-093052  Philadelphia (Philly Cream Cheese paint scheme-no printing) 
0001-093053  Brooklyn Car   (Tan paint - no printing ) Has "Next Car Light" **
0001-093054  Chicago (Green Hornet Scheme) -no printing
0001-093055  Pittsburg (Red and Cream Scheme) -no printing
0001-093056  San Fran. Muni "Magic Carpet Scheme" -no printing Has "Next Car Light" **


 2nd Group of "no printing" cars to be released Winter 2008 / 09 


0001-093057  Red/White/Blue patriotic colors -no printing
0001-093058  Pacific Electric (Red / orange) -no printing (Has Next Car light) **
0001-093059  D.C. Transit colors - no printing
0001-093060  Philladephia Orange/ Blue -no printing
0001-093061  Baltimore -colors - no printing
0001-093062  Boston- orange - no printing
Brief History of the origins of the "PCC" Streetcar / Trolley

     In the middle of the 1930's Depression, all major cities needed to buy new streetcars, but money of course was in short supply. So a committee was formed by the Presidents of the transit systems to design a "common" design streetcar that could be mass produced efficiently. This group was nick-named the "Presidents Conference Committee" or "PCC".

     The design that emerged was to bring modern looks and technology to streetcars, and the basic "PCC" design was the most sucessful streetcar ever built, 4500 PCC cars ran in 33 cities in North America, and the design was even copied in Europe after WW II.

     The Art Deco Streamlined PCC cars first appeared in 1936, and were a "hit" with the public. They were much more smooth riding than the existing streetcars, and people would let a "old fashioned" streetcar pass on the street and wait for one of the new PCC cars to ride on. On Sunday's some cities offered "free" rides on the transit system, and people would ride the PCC cars to a public park for a picnic, or downtown to the civic center of the city to a museum or civic event.

Brief History of the Longevity of the "PCC" Streetcars

     The Art Deco Look of the "PCC" car probably helped their long life span, but they were well built, and simple to maintain, so some of the PCC cars built before WW II ran in public service until late 1970's in some cities.

     Cars built after WW II, can still be found running " in service" today on public transit systems in San Francisco and Kenohsa Wisconsin amoung others. Usually painted in "Heritage" paint schemes of various cities from around the USA and Canada.

      And many, many PCC cars, both Pre-WW II and Post- WW II can be found either running or on display at almost two dozen rail Museums around the USA.

     In Summary, the PCC car is a real part of "Americanna" and was the predecessor to the "Light Rail" Transit Systems built or proposed in many USA cities in the last 20 years.

As with all very complicated projects, this delivery date is only an educated projection. Some delay may occur on any project of this size and complexity.

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