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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. — Download original ↓

February 27, 1956 · St. Louis

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.

Date: February 27, 1956
Location: St. Louis
Vehicle: PCC streetcar, Freight car
Operator: Chicago Transit Authority, St. Louis-San Francisco Railway
Equipment: PCC

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1950s Winter St. Louis

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