ITS VERY NICE TO HERE THE SOUND OF THE PCC MOVING .

Many great memories. Grew up in Castle Shannon 1960-1984.
A great place to live.

I remember going to south Hills Village Mall on the trolley when I was in High school. Those were the good old days

My mother (age 92) still remembers riding in all the way from Charleroi across several high bridges.  I still remember the tracks in the streets of Charleroi.

It’s comforting to know that McKinley park it’s directly under that bridge !

I used to live in Castle Shannon from 1976-1978; I moved there specifically because it was on the streetcar line.  Back in those days, you could get to Shannon on the 35, 36, 37 or 38A lines - and I rode all of them at one time or another, from Castle Shannon right to Downtown.  Beat the heck out of sitting in traffic on 88 or 51 or through the tunnels.  Brings back memories.  There was one stupid head cop that used to direct traffic at Smithfield and Carson, who didn't give a hoot how bad he would back up traffic in the transit tunnel - and in those days busses used that as well as streetcars.

Thank you. This definitely brings me back to some of my favorite memories from my childhood. Riding the 47D Drake with my uncle Phil on Saturdays.

Going over the bridge that is above McKinley park (rt 51, by the Red, White and Blue store) in those streetcars I remember thinking that we where going to tip over. You're up so high. There wasn't much of an edge for the cars and the cars rocked  something fierce.

My sister used to take the PCC cars from Wood Street station up to spinning wheels on Friday nights to go rollerskating
I still remember riding around the Old Gateway Center, Loop with my father who used to live in Overbrook we would take the trolley into downtown that was my first exposure to the downtown subway was riding a PCC car
By the time I was old enough to ride by myself, the PCC’s were only going as far as Castle Shannon out to Drake loop and I used to ride that line all the time on weekends when I was bored
In fact, I took one of the last ride in September 1999

I remember in the 70s when I was going to school and living in Orange County, California.  When my car was wrecked and being a broke college student it took several months before I could bail it out, so I ended up having to take the bus most days to get to campus.  Back then, maybe today too, that area wasn't bus transportation friendly, and getting a bus to go around it was time consuming.  Nothing like Pittsburgh, where there was a choice between public modes.  BRing this up because a friend of mine at school was from Pittsburgh and she always raved about the trolley and other service the people could use there.  Seeing the films of these trolleys and my experience out west makes you envy the people in Pittsburgh for having such public transportation.  Seems like you could almost get by there without a car, something that is almost impossible to do in SOCAL.

I must disagree with you TheSixtyschild. These are most definitely streetcars. These are PCC streetcars built for Pittsburgh Railways. The ran on streets and on private rights of way in Pittsburgh before being replaced by Light Rail vehicles. They do use an over head 600 volt power trolley wire which is not very visible in this video. The operation in this video show a very little bit of street operation at the beginning in Castle Shannon. The rest of the video was taken on the private right of way between South Hills and Castle Shannon.  A few years before this video was made these cars ran on the streets of downtown Pittsburgh.

Very much enjoyed 'the ride' Kevin, thanks for posting! I lived in Library in '80 and remember taking the trolley a couple of times- good memories!

Wow! I grew up in the Pittsburgh South Hills and spent a lot of time on PAT streetcars and buses.  (I must say, three buses at Glenbury during the peroid in which this was shot, and not one being a Neoplan Pennliner, was very unusual!)  Still it was great to see this again after all these years!  Thanks for posting it!

What a wonderful sound they made. ♡

Its so nice to hear the wunderful "clack" of the main contactor. Its sounding equally like the main contactor of the checz Tatra T4D in Dresden, Germany or Leipzig, Germany and the sound of the traction motors sonding similar to the Tatra traction motors. What a surprice ... Tatra T1 to T4 is a development of the pcc technology. But I found the Tatras looks better. I give also a Video answer ...

This video was a rare treat. Thank you for sharing.

My old Route! Thank you!

That old-ass fare box... Noisy as all hell.

Outstanding video.  So sad to see these PCCs go.  Thanks for sharing.

Remembering geting off the Trippers at the Junction to go to South Hills High School😊