PV&T passenger and express cars.

The PV&T, like all other conventional railroads, started providing passenger service in the traditional way of having coaches hauled behind locomotives. This served the PV&T well for many years, but when the railroad started to electrify, the idea of using electric MU cars to provide commuter and suburban passenger service became very appealing.

When the PV&T electrification reached Montréal and Portland, the railroad started replacing passenger and express cars with electric passenger motors. From 1920 until 1941, the PV&T purchased about 120 passenger motors and 150 passenger trailers to handle all of its Boston, Portland, Albany, and Montréal commuter operations (at one time, there were commuter trains for almost every large city that the PV&T served, but those trains were withdrawn as the electrification proceeded) and interurban trains.

The electric cars were numbered from E001 through E120 and the trailers were numbered from 1101 through 1164. As commuter services and long-distance services declined, these cars were withdrawn from revenue service until, by 1966, only 45 motors and 59 trailers remained on the roster, mainly in Boston and Montréal commuter service.

After the second world war, the railroad purchased four Budd Vista-Dome cars, but no follow-on orders were made.

Aside from 1146-1148 and 1261-1264, all of the PV&T passenger motors and trailers follow the traditional interurban model; round-ended carriages with doors for walking between cars in a train. Classes EC1 through ECB4 have arched windows, and class 47ELMC-1 has round porthole bulkhead windows; all other classes have standard rectangular windows. Classes TD3, TP4, TD4, TS4, TO5, TD5, TC5, TS10, and TD11 have 6-wheel trucks; all others have 4-wheel trucks.

PV&T Interurban Car Roster
MOTOR CARS
No.	Class	Builder	Built	Type	Comments
E1	EC1	Niles	1912	Wooden coach	to line car M955 1941.
E2-E8	EC1	Niles	1912	Wooden coach	Retired 1945
E9-E17	EC2	Holman	1918	Wooden coach	Retired 1939
E18-E21	ECB3	Brill	1920	Baggage-coach	Retired 1946
E22,E23	EC3	Brill	1920	Coach	Commuter service.
E24-E30	EC3	Brill	1920	Coach	Retired 1948
E31-E45	ECB4	St Louis	1921	Baggage-coach	E32, E44 in interurban service. Balance retired 1963
E46-E55	EC5	Pullman	1923	Coach	Commuter service.
E56-E65	EC5	Pullman	1923	Coach	Retired 1963
E66-E71	EC6	St Louis	1925	Coach	Commuter service.
E72-E75	ECB6	St Louis	1925	Baggage-coach	Retired 1961
E76-E80	EC7	Brill	1927	Coach	Commuter service.
E81	ERB7	Brill	1928	Baggage-rpo	Retired 1948
E82-E84	ERB7	Brill	1928	Baggage-rpo	Retired 1961
E85	EC8	Pullman	1929	Coach	Commuter service.
E86-E92	ECB9	St Louis	1929	Baggage-coach	Retired 1961, 1963
E103-E108	47ELMC-1	Pullman	1939	Coach	Ex PE&E/SP/PE 200-204, 206, 207. Commuter service.
E109-E115	EC10	St Louis	1939	Coach	Commuter service.
E116	ECB11	Brill	1939	Baggage-coach	To inspection car M982 1963.
E117	ECB11	Brill	1939	Baggage-coach	To line car 981 1961.
E118-E119	ECB11	Brill	1939	Baggage-coach	In interurban service.
E120	ECB11	Brill	1939	Baggage-coach	To line car M980 1961.
TRAILERS
No.	Class	Builder	Built	Type	Comments
1101-1108	TC1	Laconia	1912	Wooden coach	Retired 1945
1109-1112	TCB1	Laconia	1912	Wooden baggage-coach	Retired 1945
1113-1114	TC2	Brill	1918	Wooden coach	Retired 1945
1115-1116	TB3	St Louis	1920	Baggage	Retired 1948
1117-1128	TC3	St Louis	1920	Coach	Commuter service.
1129,1130	TD3	St Louis	1920	Diner	To coach 1931. Retired 1948
1131-1134	TP4	Pullman	1920	Parlor	To coach 1931
1135-1136	TD4	Pullman	1920	Diner	To coach 1932. Retired 1961
1137-1145	TS4	Pullman	1920	Sleeper	Retired 1932
1146	TO5	Pullman	1925	Observation	Official train.
1147	TD5	Pullman	1925	Diner
1148	TC5	Pullman	1925	Office
1149-1153	TCR5	Pullman	1925	Rpo-coach	Retired 1961
1154-1163	TC6a	St Louis	1925	Coach	Commuter service.
1164-1171	TC6b	Brill	1925	Coach	Retired 1948
1172-1173	TC6b	Brill	1925	Coach	Commuter service.
1174-1188	TC7a	St Louis	1928	Coach	Retired 1963
1189-1203	TC7b	Pullman	1928	Coach	Retired 1963
1204-1206	TCB8	Brill	1933	Baggage-coach	Retired 1948
1207-1209	TCB8	Brill	1933	Baggage-coach	Retired 1961
1210-1212	TC8	Brill	1933	Coach	Retired 1963
1213-1220	TC9	St Louis	1939	Coach	Retired 1961
1221-1240	TC9	St Louis	1939	Coach	Commuter service.
1241	TB9	St Louis	1939	Baggage	To tool car 1963
1242	TB9	St Louis	1939	Baggage	Retired 1963
1243-1249	TS10	Pullman	1939	Sleeper	Retired 1963
1250-1251	TS10	Pullman	1939	Sleeper	In service
1252	TD11	Brill	1939	Diner	Retired 1963
1253-1254	TD11	Brill	1939	Diner	In service
1255-1256	TO11	Brill	1939	Observation	1255 donated to Seashore Trolley Museum 1963. 1256 retired 1963.
1257-1260	TC12	St Louis	1940	Coach	Commuter service.
1261	TVD13	Budd	1945	Vista-dome	To official train 1963
1262	TVD13	Budd	1945	Vista-dome	Retired 1963
1263-1264	TVD13	Budd	1945	Vista-dome	In service

A note on PV&T interurban classification

The classification scheme that the PV&T uses for interurban motor and trailer cars is to have a single letter prefix saying whether the car is motorised (E) or not (T). It is followed with a string of letters describing what the car can carry, then a number giving the PV&T order number, followed optionally by a letter for orders that are broken up between different carbuilders. Thus, a class ECB4 is a motorized (E) Coach-Baggage car from order 4.

The one exception to this classification scheme is the ex Portland Eugene & Eastern 47ELMC-1 coaches that were purchased from the Pacific Electric in 1939. The PV&T got boxes of records with these cars, and the accounting department decided that it would be easier to keep the existing classification than to have to copy all the records just to get the new classification numbers. (By 1961, this had proven to be enough of an annoyance so that when the LT&L merger happened all of the LT&L and Montreal Terminal units were reclassified into the PV&T scheme.)