[RayofHope]

I have enjoyed many rides on these vintage street cars. Kind of reminded me of the street cars I took to and from high school along Western avenue in Chicago......

[Publius]

Once upon a time in Chicago, every four blocks there was a crosstown streetcar line. When the Loop El was opened for business in 1893, it was no longer necessary for all trolley lines to go downtown, so the crosstown concept was born.

The last streetcar lines were shut down in 1959, but the extra long PCC streetcars used in Chicago had many useful years of life left. So the PCC cars were shopped and turned into PCC Loop El cars serving the subway-el system.

The last of the PCC el cars were taken out of service in the late Eighties. Some of them went to Philadelphia to serve on the Upper Darby-Norristown Line as the last Brill Bullets of 1931 and Brill Straffords of 1920 died with their wheels on. The new French equipment came on line in the Nineties, and the PCC el cars went to museums.