HO Kansas City-Style Post-War PCC Streetcar Standard DC Executive Line Bicentennial Scheme No Number or State (white, blue, red)

Details: Bowser Manufacturing Company is proud to finally announce the resumption of our Kansas City PCC project. After searching, evaluating and securing a new supplier for our trolley projects, we located our molds and had them successfully tested for quality and durability. Our Kansas City PCC project will provide HO scale models of these unique all-electric PCC cars that were built without the characteristic standee windows. 160 of these unique cars were delivered in 1946 and 1947, but they ran only for ten years before 80 cars were sold between 1954 and 1957 to Philadelphia/PTC (40), Toronto/TTC (30) and Tampico/SCTET (10). Controls, motors and trucks from another 79 were sold to Bruxelles, Belgium for use in construction of street cars being built for that city. The bodies were scrapped. In 1975 with the cars already approaching 30 years of operation, 11 of the 30 cars in Toronto were sent to San Francisco to deal with the longer running times caused by the bui

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