47 Drake

The 47 Drake (often abbreviated as the 47D) was a PCC trolley line that was part of the Pittsburgh Light Rail system. The 47D was the last line in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to be used solely for PCC streetcars. It originally was part of an interurban trolley line that ran from Pittsburgh to Washington until 1953, when the line, along with the Pittsburgh-Charleroi interurban which it branches from, were cut back to the Allegheny county border at Drake and Library respectively. [cite web| url=http://web.presby.edu/~jtbell/transit/Pittsburgh/Drake/| title=Pittsburgh's Last PCC Streetcars: The Drake Shuttle (Route 47D)| author=Bell, Jon| date=2007-08-19| accessdate=2008-07-23| ] The line closed in 1999, and the last four PCCs of the Port Authority of Allegheny County were decommissioned. One car, #4004, was donated to the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum where it has become part of a collection of historic streetcars and trolleys from all across the United States and other nations.

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