Traffic backs up on the 6th St Bridge as the 22 CROSSTOWN car brings a load of passengers from the north side. Check out the variety of old cars, including a beat-up VW Beetle, a Dodge and a grand... (more)

SWISSVALE VIEW 1. Route 64 comes alongside the Pennsy (note their signal gantry behind) on Edgewood Av in downtown Swissvale PA and 1609 has just stopped to discharge a lady passenger before turn... (more)

Joe Jessel captured a pair of Route 64 cars in Braddock PA on Bell Av passing Thompson Steel, as evidence of their work drifts across the roadway on a southerly breeze. In less than four months t... (more)

The south side lines had their scenic overlooks as well, usually from the often steep stairs to someone’s house. Joe Jessel commanded such a viewpoint to record this Route 53 CARRICK car.

This residential scene on Route 6 BRIGHTON ROAD has classic cars everywhere you look. Another view from the camera of Joe Jessel Jr, whose welcome charters must have reflected well on the PRC’s... (more)

Perhaps the rarest color view of a PCC anywhere is this shot of the original St Louis Car Co postwar demonstrator delivered in 1946. It was destroyed in the Homewood Shops fire of 1955. Its use ... (more)

Snow in Pittsburgh is not as frequent as cities such as Buffalo or Cleveland but they do get their share each winter. Here one of photographer Joe Jessel’s charters poses as a Route 44 KNOXVILL... (more)

Route 87 attained East Pittsburgh and points east via a lengthy central reservation in Ardmore Blvd through Forest Hills. This February morning’s charter saw Joe Jessel Jr spotting his car by ... (more)

A cold, blustery January Sunday morning wasn’t just a “let’s sleep in” day for every one. Joe Jessel, Jr was downtown and hard at work photographing his favorite system.

The 21 FINEVIEW line wasn’t the only one with a “fine view”, in fact it was hardly even the best example. Route 40 MT WASHINGTON displayed the Ohio River valley to its riders. Photographer... (more)

Routes of the PRC reached far and wide. Favorited by many enthusiasts was the 56 McKEESPORT VIA 2ND AV, shown here as a PCC is about to cross the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad at grade in downtown Mc... (more)

From a Kodachrome slide in my collection made by the late Joe Jessel, Jr. A favored spot for photographing Pittsburgh’s Billboard cars was North & Sandusky. The PRC could always be counted on ... (more)

The only way to photograph a line (about to be abandoned) with a 40 minutes headway is to buy your own car for a few hours! Fortunately 1966 charter rates were very affordable. We even carried t... (more)

In 1949 The Hague ordered two PCC cars from St Louis Car Co, constructed for European rear-entrance operating patterns and narrower dimensions. The second of the pair is seen here in 1967, newly c... (more)

Chicago Transit Authority 4391, the only survivor of 600 "Green Hornet" PCC streetcars built for the Windy City, sits ready to go into service for the Illinois Railway Museum's 2008 Trolley Parade... (more)