This car commemorates Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Co.—the ‘Red Arrow’ lines serving Philly’s western suburbs—which ran PCC streetcars from 1949 to 1982.

In 1940, PST modernized its fleet with ten ‘Brilliners’, a PCC competitor from old-line trolley builder J.G. Brill & Co. But the PST order turned out to be the last cars Brill ever built. Needing more cars after the war, PST turned to St. Louis Car Co., which offered a body shell nearly identical to one bought by Muni (including car No. 1007) and Illinois Terminal Railroad.

Fourteen of these cars arrived in 1949 and were initially used on the 19-mile West Chester line, later on the Sharon Hills and Media lines. The private PST was ultimately taken over by the public SEPTA agency, and by 1982 the PCCs and Brilliners were supplanted by Kawasaki light rail vehicles.

When the F-line opened in 1995, car No. 1007 was painted in a modernistic silver and red San Francisco scheme like that of Muni's new Breda LRVs (photo at right). It wasn’t popular, so Muni paint shops applied today's handsome "Red Arrow" livery in 1997.