This streetcar is painted to honor Brooklyn, which ran PCC streetcars from 1936 to 1956. Trolleys were once such a part of the Brooklyn scene that the local baseball club was named the ‘Trolley Dodgers’, later shortened to, well…you know.

Brooklyn & Queens Transit Corporation was first to test a PCC prototype, and joined Pittsburgh and Chicago as the first cities to operate production cars in late 1936. Brooklyn’s trolley lines crossed Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan, served Coney Island, and more.

The trolleys left Brooklyn in 1956, one year ahead of the baseball team named for them. Brooklyn PCCs sported two unusual paint schemes. The original was called pachyderm gray, almost coppery in the sun, with a scarlet stripe under the windows. In 1946, after the City of New York took over the operation, this light green and silver livery replaced it.