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On 17 Sep 1995, jmrubin@ix.netcom.com(Joel Rubin)wrote:(Note: I'm re-
posting this in ba.transportation, if you've seen this in nyc.transit, 
it's already redundant, except for my forthcoming reply...)
> San Francisco, home of public transportation as tourist trap, now has a 
> bunch of PCC streetcars running along Market St. (rather strange--seing 
> the ultramodern stuff of another day promoted as nostalgia--a bit like a 
> 2030 retrospective of the Star Wars series) These cars come from various 
> systems and the other day I saw one marked "Public Service Co-ordinated 
> Transport", presumably from the Newark City Subway.
> 

	All of the cars you see are ex-SEPTA cars, which were repain-
ted in the colors of various operators who ran PCC"s, though some of
these operators never ran any postwar cars.  The Public Service car 
you saw was one of these cars, and would have been noticable by its
width, or lack of same(the ex-SEPTA cars are 8'4" wide, the actual
Public Service cars, like MUNI's own PCC's are 9' wide).

	Hope this helps.

	Later

	Michael T. Greene