Presidents’ Conference Committee (PCC) Streetcar MOC

[Murdoch17]

"Clang, clang, clang went the trolley
Ding, ding, ding went the bell"

- The trolley song (as sung by Judy Garland in the movie "Meet me in St Louis".)

This 1930's PCC (Presidents’ Conference Committee) streamlined streetcar was originally designed in LEGO by Flickr user jwolfe7. I copied some of the design using his helpful instructions and added side skirts inspired by James Mathis' design from over a decade ago. Combined together, these features provided the groundwork for this streetcar, which is in 1940's St. Louis Public Service Company colors.

The James Mathis-designed wheels can turn a complete 360 degrees. There is a slight gap between the car-body and wheel-set, but that is a price to pay for this design. See here for the original Brickshelf page for the wheels, dating from 2002.

Here is the rear of the car. The pole on top of the car moves up and down signifying when the car is in operation (pole up and in contact with the "wires") while down represents the car is not in operation due to technical problems or in storage in the car barn.

Below in the spoiler tag you will find my original version of this car from 2014.

Spoiler

 

Original version from a long time ago:

Front view.

Rear view.

 

 

 

The LDD file for the newer version is here. Comments, question and complaints welcome!

Edited July 23, 2017 by Murdoch17

[dr_spock]

Nice. I used to ride them to get home from school. I would probably do one in Boston's MBTA colors. Your red looks like Toronto's TTC too.

[Murdoch17]

Nice. I used to ride them to get home from school. I would probably do one in Boston's MBTA colors. Your red looks like Toronto's TTC too.

Thank you, and yes it does look like Toronto TTC, along with quite a few other transit systems as well.

[Murdoch17]

sorry for the five year bump, but I thought i'd better update this one than make a new one...

anyway: the LDD file and pictures have been updated!