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The Modern Tramway Journal After WW2 and into 1960s
The Modern Tramway – July 1951 – Pittsburgh: An American Tramway Stronghold

The Modern Tramway of July 1951 included an article by A. A. Jackson about the tramways of Pittsburgh.

The featured image for this article is a vintage Presidents’ Conference Committee (P.C.C.) tramcar- No. 1604. It is from the 1600 series of P.C.C. cars, operated by Pittsburgh Railways and is pictured on Line 49 bound for Beltzhoover. This photograph was taken during the 1970s, © Voogd075 and licenced for reuse under a Creative Commons licence (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Pittsburgh is situated at the point where the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers converge to become the River Ohio, historically it is the most important Iron and Steel Centre in the United States.

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