The Green Line "D" Branch (formerly the Boston & Albany Railroad's Highland Branch) was converted in 1959 and runs modern light rail equipment; the Ashmont-Mattapan High Speed Line was converted in 1929 and runs historic PCC streetcars.
Originally constructed as a streetcar line using PCC streetcars, the Newark City Subway ran from Newark Penn to a loop at the Newark city line located at what was then called Franklin Avenue.
It can be assumed the Minneapolis streetcars would follow similar design standards or acquire ex-Twin City Rapid Transit PCC streetcars from Newark City Subway.
The PCC technology was exported to Europe, with La Brugeoise et Nivelles (now the BN division of Bombardier) of Bruges, Belgium, building several hundred streetcars that saw service in Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, The Hague, Saint-Étienne, Marseille and Belgrade (the latter city buying vehicles initially used by the Belgian Vicinal railways).
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--This sounds uncertain and like speculation. If it is speculation it doesn't belong here. If the first European cars were from Fiat and have a source it needs to be here and the sentence rephrased.--> the ones developed in 1942 by Italian Fiat for the Madrid tramway system.
At the turn of the 21st century, Kenosha constructed a modern electric streetcar system utilizing historic PCC streetcars in coordination with the HarborPark development on the shores of Lake Michigan.
In April 1982 the first PCC streetcar to run the line in 1963, "Leonard's Number 1", was saved from the cutting torch by a Tandy computer programmer and stored on a farm south of Fort Worth where it remained for over 25 years.
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