A PCC will once again ply the rails of the streets of San Diego

San Diego, August 27, 2011 - Beginning August 27, 2011, the PCC will once again ply the rails of the streets of San Diego. Car #529 was restored and modernized to current standards by volunteers at a cost of $850,000. The program was led by MTS Chairman Harry Mathis.

Trolley service in San Diego ended in 1949 and this car built in that year for operation in San Francisco.

These PCC streetcars were built in St. Louis by the St. Louis Car Company in 1945 and delivered to the St. Louis Public Service Company in 1945 and 46. They served in San Francisco from 1957 until retired in 1982. In 1992, Gunnar Henrioulle of South Lake Tahoe purchased the cars for a proposed street car system in Sacramento, California.