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El Paso, PCC # 1515
  El PasoPCC # 1515 
Sante Fe Street
The El Paso tram company belongs in the cabinet of curiosities for several reasons. The tram runs only 4 days a week but only from 4pm to midnight. The line has an 8 shape and one will never cross a tram. On the short common piece you can maybe see another tram in the same direction.

Author: focus1965 · Antwerpen           Date: Thursday, June 23, 2022

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Published 17.07.2022 18:38 MSK
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El Paso, PCC # 1515

Operator/Facility:El Paso Streetcar
Since...:2015
Model:PCC
Built:1937
Current state:In operation
Purpose:Passenger vehicle
Remarks:2015 ex PNSPS; 1986 ex EPCL; 1950 ex San Diego, 524
Builder: St. Louis Car Co.
Rebuilt by Brookville Equipment Corporation. Returned to El Paso 10/2018.

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Model:Canon EOS 80D
Date and Time:23.06.2022 16:58
Exposure Time:1/250 sec
Aperture Value:11
ISO Speed:125
Exposure Bias:–1/3 EV
Focal Length:43 mm
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17.07.2022 19:20 MSK
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Ymtram · East Haven - Branford
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> The tram runs only 4 days a week but only from 4pm to midnight.

This was not the case before COVID, as trams operated all-day 7-days a week, even though they started relatively late in the day. The new schedule is definitely a post-COVID half-measure decision. And a give away that leisure travel is the tram's main presumed market.
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17.07.2022 21:46 MSK
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focus1965 · Antwerpen
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Quote (Ymtram (Yury LRTA), 17.07.2022):
> And a give away that leisure travel is the tram's main presumed market.

I'm usually in bed by 11 o'clock in the evening... but of course this is a different region.
The idea is copied from San Francisco: the operation of a semi-tourist tramline with P.C.C.'s in the colours of all sorts of other cities. The execution (at the time of my visit) I continue to find remarkable and I can only hope that the tram will run again 7/7, and this according to the usual hours of life there... which are clearly different from the hours I am familiar with.
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18.07.2022 03:56 MSK
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Alstom Citadis · Kharkiv
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А для чего эти надстройки на крышах, которые появились после реставрации?
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18.07.2022 08:02 MSK
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ДенЕКТ · Yekaterinburg
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Цитата (Alstom Citadis, 18.07.2022):
> А для чего эти надстройки на крышах, которые появились после реставрации?

Скорее всего кондиционер ,пуско-тормозные резисторы и другое оборудование которое не поместилось под полом.кузов то старый остался)
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18.07.2022 09:58 MSK
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Cypok · Vancouver
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Цитата (ДенЕКТ, 18.07.2022):
> Скорее всего кондиционер

Наверняка, у них там жаркий климат, без кондиционера никак.
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18.07.2022 14:50 MSK
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Ymtram · East Haven - Branford
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Скорее всего только кондиционер. Ибо другого “непоместившкгося” оборудования быть не должно. Ранее писал, что в остальном это 1:1 восстановленный PCC (лат.) по стандартам 1930-х гг. и по старым “чертежам”. На самом деле в этих вагонах едешь, и чувствуешь себя как в новом PCC, как вчера с завода. Впечатление для нашего времени сюрреалистичное.

Описывал здесь:
https://transphoto.org/photo/1325061/#2622386
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