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A light green and cream streetcar on cobblestone-paved tracks under an elevated railway station, with parked cars along the curb at left and tall downtown buildings behind.

A Chicago Transit Authority PCC streetcar passes under the elevated Loop station, likely at State and Van Buren. August 29, 1954 · State and Van Buren, Chicago, IL

A dark brick two-story carbarn with numbered open bays holding about ten green and cream streamlined streetcars, with curving tracks set in brick pavement and overhead wires in the foreground.

A row of green and cream PCC streetcars in the numbered bays of a Chicago carbarn lettered for a city railway company, likely the Chicago Transit Authority's car station at Cottage Grove and 38th. September 26, 1954 · Cottage Grove and 38th, Chicago, IL

A green and cream streetcar signed 49 Western-Archer stands on cobblestone track while a uniformed crew member bends down to throw a switch with an iron bar.

A Chicago Transit Authority PCC streetcar signed 49 Western-Archer, likely number 71[?]0, at Western and Archer in Chicago while a crew member throws a track switch. October 15, 1954 · Western and Archer, Chicago, IL

A green and cream streetcar comes toward the camera on a wide street with streetcar tracks; to the left, a brown wooden train car stands beside a brick tavern building, with a truck and a dark 1950s sedan between them.

A Chicago Transit Authority PCC streetcar signed for Western-Archer crosses Van Buren as a wooden 'L' car waits on the street-level tracks at Western Avenue. November 3, 1954 · Western and Van Buren, Chicago, IL

An elevated view down a busy downtown street decorated with Christmas trees on the lamp posts, with a green and cream streetcar coming toward the camera and another going away on the next track, among cars, shoppers and subway entrances.

Two Chicago Transit Authority PCC streetcars pass on State Street at Van Buren, with the street decorated for Christmas. November 26, 1954 · State and Van Buren, Chicago, IL

A high view down a busy downtown street decorated for Christmas, with a green and cream streetcar in the center lanes, a bus at the left curb, cars and a taxi in front, and crowds on both sidewalks.

A Chicago Transit Authority PCC streetcar heads up State Street near Jackson among Christmas decorations, taxis and shoppers, likely in the mid-1950s. 1955 · State and Jackson, Chicago, IL

A yellow streetcar with the number 1399 and route 5 sign travels on embedded tracks beside a road with utility poles and palm trees.

A Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority PCC streetcar, number 1399, operates on a sunny day along a palm-lined street in the 1950s. January 1955

A vintage green and orange streetcar with the number 1307 is stopped on a rain-slicked street, with overhead wires and a 'HUDSON' business sign visible in the background.

A Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority PCC streetcar, number 1307, navigates a wet street under overcast skies. January 1, 1955 · 48th and Crenshaw Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

An orange, green and cream streetcar with a trolley pole runs down a sunny street under a web of overhead wires, with a Sinclair Paints billboard, an arcaded market building and small shops, and 1950s cars on the street.

A PCC streetcar, likely of the Los Angeles Transit Lines, signed for East First St. and passing the Plaza Market in Los Angeles. March 1, 1955 · P Line Plaza Market, Los Angeles, CA

A green and cream streetcar comes toward the camera on brick-paved double track under overhead wire, on a wide street lined with used car lots and large signs.

A Chicago Transit Authority PCC streetcar signed for route 49 Western-79 runs on Western Avenue near 66th Street, Chicago, in the mid-1950s. October 9, 1955 · Western and 66th, Chicago, IL

A green and cream streetcar drives toward the camera on tracks set in cobblestone paving, under a web of overhead trolley wires, with cars, billboards and a water tower along the street.

Chicago Transit Authority PCC streetcar 711[?] running on State Street near 62nd Place, Chicago. November 9, 1955 · State and 62nd Pl., Chicago, IL

A green and cream streetcar on a city street in front of a brightly lit theatre marquee advertising Run for Cover, with a bus and 1950s cars behind it.

Chicago Transit Authority PCC streetcar 40[?][?] passes the Chicago Theatre on State Street near Lake Street, Chicago, about 1955. 1956 · State and Lake, Chicago, IL

A green and cream PCC streetcar with the number 4382 and destination sign '22 HALSTED' is shown on a sunlit, cobblestone city street, surrounded by 1950s cars and storefronts under a clear blue sky.

A Chicago Transit Authority PCC streetcar, number 4382, on the 22 Halsted route in 1956, running on cobblestone tracks in a bustling city street. 1956 · Clark and Schiller, Chicago, IL

Two stripped green-and-cream streetcars with their windows removed sit among scrap metal behind a black Frisco gondola and rail tracks, with six smokestacks against an overcast sky.

Stripped PCC streetcars, likely of the Chicago Transit Authority and including car 706[?], stand behind St. Louis-San Francisco Railway gondola 61[...]496, likely in St. Louis. February 27, 1956 · St. Louis

A green and cream streetcar comes toward the camera on a city street under a steel elevated structure carrying a two-car train, with neon signs, a yellow truck, a sedan and pedestrians in winter coats.

A Chicago Transit Authority PCC streetcar runs under the Loop elevated at Clark and Van Buren while a two-car 'L' train passes overhead. April 19, 1956 · Clark and Van Buren, Chicago, IL

A green and cream streetcar comes toward the camera on a wide street, under a steel elevated railway bridge that carries a CTA 'Park and Ride' sign, with 1950s cars on both sides.

Chicago Transit Authority PCC streetcar passing under the elevated line at Western and Leland, Chicago, mid-1950s. June 10, 1956 · Western and Leland, Chicago, IL

A green and cream streetcar on a wide street passes an ornate red, white and blue amusement park gate with onion domes, flags and a roller coaster behind it, while pedestrians walk along the sidewalk.

Chicago Transit Authority PCC streetcar 4060 passes the striped, onion-domed entrance of Riverview amusement park on Western Avenue near Roscoe, Chicago, in summer. June 10, 1956 · Western and Roscoe, Chicago, IL

A vintage green and cream Chicago streetcar with number 4059 travels down a wide, sunlit street lined with 1950s cars and storefronts.

A Chicago Transit Authority PCC streetcar, number 4059, runs on Western Avenue at Leland in the early 1950s under a clear sky. June 10, 1956 · Western and Leland, Chicago, IL

A green and cream streetcar signed 36 Broadway-Devon turns across a brick-paved intersection, with 1950s cars, a corner drug store and an overpass behind it.

Chicago Transit Authority streetcar 7148 on route 36 Broadway turns through the intersection at Broadway and Devon in Chicago. August 14, 1956 · Broadway and Devon, Chicago, IL

A green and cream streetcar sits under an elevated railway station that carries red and cream CTA banners, with a second streetcar beside it and traffic going off into the distance.

Two Chicago Transit Authority PCC streetcars on State Street under the Loop 'L' station at Van Buren Street in Chicago, likely in the mid-1950s. August 24, 1956 · State and Van Buren, Chicago, IL

A green and cream streetcar on a wide downtown street lined with theater marquees, with an elevated railway crossing the street in the distance.

Chicago Transit Authority PCC streetcar 7174 on State Street at Randolph, Chicago, with the State Lake and Chicago theaters and the Lake Street 'L' behind it, likely summer 1956. August 24, 1956 · State and Randolph, Chicago, IL

A green and cream streetcar approaches on double track in a busy downtown street lined with tall buildings, with 1950s cars, a Jim Beam wall sign and a movie marquee behind it.

A green and cream Chicago Transit Authority PCC streetcar on State Street near Madison in Chicago, likely in 1956. August 24, 1956 · State and Madison, Chicago, IL

A light-colored streamlined streetcar stops at a busy downtown corner under tall buildings, with many pedestrians crossing the tracks in the foreground.

A Chicago Transit Authority PCC streetcar on State Street near Jackson, as pedestrians cross in front of it, likely in the 1950s. August 24, 1956 · State and Jackson, Chicago, IL

A green and cream streetcar seen from above runs on cobblestone tracks between a red Budweiser truck and parked cars, with neon store signs on the left and a large red brick warehouse in the background.

A Chicago Transit Authority PCC streetcar on a busy downtown Chicago street, likely near Clark and Wacker, with the Central Cold Storage Company building behind it. 1957 · Clark and Wacker, Chicago, IL

A green and cream streetcar signed 22 81-HALSTED comes up a downtown street under bright neon signs for Borden's Milk, the Blue Note and Wimpy, while a traffic officer directs a crowd of pedestrians.

Chicago Transit Authority streetcar 7194 on Route 22 to 81st-Halsted on Clark Street in downtown Chicago, likely at Madison Street. August 2, 1957 · Clark and Madison, Chicago, IL

A green and cream streetcar on a cobbled street under trolley wires. A truck and a bus follow it, a gray diesel passenger train runs on an embankment behind parked 1950s cars, and brick warehouses stand at right.

A Chicago Transit Authority PCC streetcar crosses a cobblestone intersection near Archer Avenue, Chicago, as a New York Central passenger train passes behind. October 8, 1957 · Chicago, IL

Four green and cream streamlined streetcars without their trucks, two lying on their sides and two upright, in a yard full of scrap metal, with a crane and a wooden shed behind them under an overcast sky.

Stripped Chicago Transit Authority PCC streetcars awaiting scrapping, likely at 69th and Cicero in Chicago. June 21, 1959 · 69th and Cicero, Chicago, IL

A green and cream streetcar signed 22 Clark-Howard runs along a street under a rust-colored steel elevated structure, with a train of light-colored double-deck commuter coaches on top and parked cars and storefronts beyond.

Chicago Transit Authority streetcar 7175 on route 22 Clark-Howard passes under an elevated railroad structure while bi-level commuter coaches cross overhead, likely at Clark and Roscoe in Chicago, in the mid-1950s. July 1, 1959 · Clark and Roscoe, Chicago, IL

Three green and cream PCC streetcars, numbered 7218, 4378, and 2218, are parked nose-to-nose in a yard under an overcast sky, with overhead wires visible above.

Three Chicago Transit Authority PCC streetcars, numbered 7218, 4378, and 2218, are parked side by side in a yard, showcasing the fleet's prewar and postwar models. August 1959 · 77th and Vincennes, Chicago, IL

A black and white photograph of a street scene with a CTA PCC streetcar, a bus, a C&NW truck, and a Pontiac car, surrounded by people on a sunny day.

A Chicago Transit Authority PCC streetcar and a bus share a street with a Chicago and North Western maintenance truck and a 1950s Pontiac, surrounded by onlookers near a Standard Oil station in the late 1950s. April 1960 · Central Park and Belmont, Chicago, IL

A red and cream streetcar with a 73-HIGHLAND sign rounds a curve on cobblestone tracks in front of a dark stone building with round towers, while a man stands beside a parked white car at right.

Streetcar 1518 on route 73 Highland passes a massive rusticated stone building on a cobblestone street, likely in downtown Pittsburgh. c. 1964 to 1972

A green and cream streetcar numbered 3180 coupled to an orange and cream streetcar runs on paved double track in the median of a tree-lined avenue, with a tall apartment block behind.

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority PCC streetcar 3180 leads a two-car train signed North Sta. via Subway on a center reservation, likely Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. June 9, 1973 · Commonwealth and Sher'n, Boston, MA

A red and cream streetcar with a destination sign reading SUBWAY BATHURST rounds a curved loop track among tall trees, with a large building lettered COLISEU at the right.

Toronto Transit Commission streetcar 4539, signed SUBWAY BATHURST, at Exhibition Loop in Toronto. June 10, 1973 · Exibition Loop, Toronto, Ontario

A maroon and cream streetcar numbered 4675 with the sign HUMBER QUEEN stops at a concrete island on paved double track, while a grey sedan passes on the road and a pond and trees are in the background under an overcast sky.

Toronto Transit Commission PCC streetcar 4675, signed HUMBER QUEEN, at a safety island on a reserved right-of-way beside a pond. July 14, 1973 · Queensway, Toronto, Ontario

A yellow streamlined streetcar with RAIL GRINDING CAR on its destination sign and W-30 on its front stands on yard track, with a second yellow streetcar behind it and stacks of rail and ties to the right.

Toronto Transit Commission PCC rail grinding car W-30 in yellow work livery, likely at the Hillcrest yard in Toronto. September 14, 1976 · Hillcrest, Toronto, Ontario

A red and cream streetcar numbered 4503 turns across a wide intersection laced with curving streetcar tracks under overhead wires, with brick buildings, a restaurant and a corner store behind it.

Toronto Transit Commission PCC streetcar 4503, signed PRIVATE, rounds the curve at a complex track junction, likely in Toronto. c. 1978 to 1990

Inside a streetcar, a round farebox numbered 3575 sits in a railed conductor's area beside brown seat backs. Barred windows sit below a row of small upper windows, and a man stands holding a railing at the right edge.

The conductor's area and farebox inside a preserved streetcar that appears to be a PCC, at the museum in Union, Illinois. June 7, 1986 · Conductor's Area, Union, IL

A rusted green and cream streamlined streetcar with broken windows and damaged lower side panels stands inside a wooden-trussed barn, with a red car behind it and a person standing at the right.

A weathered Chicago Transit Authority PCC streetcar in green and cream waits for restoration in a storage barn, likely at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois. June 7, 1986 · Union, IL

A green and cream streetcar with lit windows and headlight, numbered 2168, stands on track under bare trees against a purple dusk sky.

PCC streetcar 2168 stands at dusk with its sign set for Route 23 GTN-GORGAS. November 8, 1992 · Germantown Av.

Side view of a streamlined cream and green streetcar numbered 1030, rusted and faded, standing on track in front of a lawn and large trees, with a TO TRAINS sign at the left.

PCC streetcar 1030, weathered in cream and green, on display on a grass-lined track near Elgin, Illinois. August 14, 1995 · Highway 31, Elgin, IL

A red and white streamlined streetcar with its trolley pole raised runs on grass-covered track in a street median, in front of a white three-story commercial building and a red brick building, under an overcast sky.

A red and white Kenosha Transit PCC streetcar runs in the grassed median past the Dale Block in downtown Kenosha, Wisconsin, bound for the McCarthy Transit Center. April 2004 · Kenosha, WI

A red and cream streamlined streetcar with a trolley pole up sits on a single track in a grass median beside a street, with bare trees, ornamental lamp posts and a white building behind it under an overcast sky.

A red and cream PCC streetcar showing Harbor Park on its sign stands on a grassy median track under trolley wire, likely in Kenosha, Wisconsin. April 4, 2004 · Kenosha, WI

A red and cream streetcar with a trolley pole runs on a grassy median track beside an empty street on an overcast day, with flags, a white building with a red roof and bare trees behind.

Kenosha Transit PCC streetcar 460[?] on the median track along the lakefront in Kenosha, Wisconsin, likely in the early 2000s. April 14, 2004 · Kenosha, WI

A red and cream streetcar with a trolley pole stands on a track in a grassy median, with bare trees, lamp posts, a No Parking sign and storefronts including a Subway restaurant behind it.

A red and cream PCC streetcar on the median track in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on an overcast day. April 14, 2004 · Kenosha, WI