Photographer Joe Jessel Jr is in no danger of being run over by his own chartered car, here in the process of descending the ramp that will carry it from Dawn Av Junction to West Liberty Av. Rout... (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)

A westbound Route 64 has just climbed out of a gully on Bell Av in Braddock PA. Yet another of Pittsburgh’s multiple steel mills gives off visible evidence that the blast furnaces were hard at ... (more)

About to stop for a passenger no doubt bound for a morning of shopping in downtown Wilkinsburg PA, the 87 car will trundle all the way east to Wilmerding PA, but not for long. Abandonment is a me... (more)

The route 55 PCC flogging 1964 Dodges from Hillside Motors has passed the steel mill (chokingly displayed in an earlier posting) and is about to pass under the Pennsylvania RR for the final jaunt ... (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)

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 Overbrook line once featured large sections of single track. Here a PCC races through a crumbling crossing along Denise St at Hawridge Way in Overbrook. Hard to believe this is just a couple... (more)

Lincoln Av, where it crossed over Washington Blvd, was not among Pittsburgh’s more elite neighborhoods in 1966. Even so there was a hint of former elegance to the buildings bordering the cobble... (more)

Just north of Castle Shannon PA a car bound for Pittsburgh via the Overbrook line passes under the Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railroad Viaduct. The sun is weak as a threatening storm has passed o... (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)

On the now abandoned DRAKE line, the 1711 speeds through Fort Couch Rd. The motorman has already set his route sign for the next outbound trip from downtown to Library PA, as weekend cars alterna... (more)

Original Kodachrome by the late Joseph Jessel Jr, a good friend who taught me much about photographic composition as it applied to streetcar views (not always the same as it is for railroad views)... (more)

The brilliant red front tells us the PCC is fresh from the paint shop following an accident. Here it holds at Edgebrook Siding on the Overbrook line for a meet with a Pittsburgh-bound car.

After the North Side routes closed, the GE-equipped PCCs from Keating were reassigned to Tunnel Carouse - here a pair of them perform on the 44 KNOXVILLE service crossing a hump-backed bridge besi... (more)