Designed to fulfill a need for a streetcar that could compete with cars and buses, the Presidents’ Conference Committee (PCC) Streetcar was first built in 1936. The PCC was a gathering of the Presidents of United States electric street railways, who collected research to be used in the production of a high-performance street car. The resulting design was efficient, comfortable and had advanced features such as noise reduction, magnetic braking, and resilient wheels. The PCC streetcar was so successful that it was exported to other nations St. Petersburg, Russia had a fleet of more than 2,000 and many are still in service today with museums and heritage railways. The design proved successful in the United States, and after World War II it was licensed for use elsewhere in the world where PCC based cars were made. The PCC car has proved to be a long-lasting icon of streetcar design, and many are still in service around the world. Many rail fans view it as the most beautiful street car ever made. Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority. The L os A ngeles R ailway LARy and later L os A ngeles T ransit L ines LATL was a system of streetcars that operated in Central Los Angeles and surrounding neighborhoods between 1895 and 1963. The system provided frequent local services which complemented the Pacific Electric “Red Car” system’s. The last remaining lines were taken over by the L os A ngeles M etropolitan T ransit A uthority. The Los Angeles County M etropolitan T ransportation A uthority MTA (Curentley Metro) along with the remains of the Pacific Electric Railway in 1958. The agency removed the remaining five streetcar lines: J, P, R, S and V and two trolley bus lines (2 and 3), replacing electric service with diesel buses afte March 31, 1963. P- Route; East First Street Dozier & Rowan. P was a streetcar line in Los Angeles, California. It was operated by the Los Angeles Railway LARy from 1895 to 1958, and by the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority from 1958 to 1963. The Pico and First Street Line was one of the first routes built by the new Los Angeles Railway in 1895. Its route ran between Pico and Van Ness Avenue on the west and Brooklyn and Rowan avenues on the east, via Pico Boulevard, Main Street, Broadway, 1st Street, and Rowan Avenue. In 1919, Broadway was extended south from 11th and Main to Pico Boulevard, removing the line from Main Street entirely. A trolley crosses Alameda Street at 1st Street in Little Tokyo as it heads for Boyle Heights, in? 1918. In the 1920 service rerouting, the western end of the West Pico and Santa Fe Station Line was combined with the eastern portion of the Boyle Heights and West 7th Street Line to form the West Pico & East First Street Line. The new line ran from Brooklyn and Rowan via Rowan, First, Broadway, and Pico to Delaware. It was assigned the letter designation P in 1921. While the route was unchanged for the rest of its existence, the Rimpau Loop and Dozier loop were added in 1935 and 1936. The line was commuted to the L os A ngeles M etropolitan T ransit A uthority in 1958. Service was converted to motor coach operation on March 31, 1963. Founded in 1946 by Bill Bowser in Redlands, California, he used his skill as a machinist to design and produce one of the first lines of accurately scaled steam locomotive kits in HO scale. In 1955, his financial partner Donald Acheson forced Bowser out of the company by enforcing a buyout clause in their agreement. The company has since grown and continues to produce its own line of injection molded plastic model kits and ready-to-run locomotives. The company produces model railroad locomotives, railroad cars, kits and a wide selection of parts directed at the more serious model railroad enthusiast. Bowser’s significance for the model railroad community lies not only in the products that Bowser itself originated, but also in those originally produced by other companies. The latter includes products originally made by Penn Line Manufacturing, Varney, Cary and Pittman motors. The Die cast line of HO Brill, IRR and PCC trolleys, LVT Liberty Belle and a free-lance Jewett Combine were discontinued in favor of plastic injection molding in 1985 and continue to this day. Post-War PCC Street Car – Standard DC – Executive Line — Los Angeles MTA #3137. Yellow body, a white roof, and a sea-foam green midsection known as the. Routing board East 1st St. Dozier & Rowan (P). Operatinf Head light, injection molded plastic body, window glass, operating roof pole, and accurate paint and decorating. Powered with 6’6 wheel base truck, can motor drive and flywheel. Executive Line Post-War PCC useses Standard DC. Stock, oroginal historic map (not Included) and drawings for detail. Original some self wear. This item has been in storage for over 10 years. It is recommended for longer running time and better performance to inspect, and follow attached maintence sheet prior to running. Bowser HO Scale Executive line PCC cars are equipped with independent wheels. That means there is no axle connecting wheelsets. This was done to make wheel replacement easy, among other things. In this case, merely push the wheel into the corresponding truck.