Yes, we are wrapping up work on the final, renarrated version, which will be available for sale at the museum and online by the end of September.

So curious about the progress of the final version...any news?

Right now, there's essentially no chance of rehabilitating Boeings and putting poles on them. Muni has only two, and at least one of these has been heavily vandalized. As Paul Tominac notes in his comment, these vehicles required excessive maintenance when they constituted Muni's core streetcar fleet, and would almost certainly require even more now, because their old electronic circuit boards would be expensive to find and replace.

Since the car storage area is not open to the public, I assume by "people" you mean Muni employees. If a non-operational streetcar can be protected from the elements with a tarp, then it doesn't make sense to take away a space from an operational streetcar for it. In fighting for this covered storage, Market Street Railway's top priorities have been the open and canvas-roofed cars, which includes the vintage Muni cars: 1, 130, 162, the Melbourne trams, the (operational) New Orleans 952. The Milan cars also have wood and canvas roofs, so they would be candidates for covered storage.

Our ultimate goal is covered storage for all the vintage streetcars, so we would like to see at least another six tracks covered. Until the old brick Geneva office building and powerhouse on one side of the yard are fully rehabilitated, it is not practical to cover more tracks, so we look at this project, which protects at least 24 vintage streetcars, to be a good start.

And this structure looks a lot more earthquake-tolerant than the original Geneva car house. It will certainly provide a better workspace for the Muni streetcar mechanics than the current open-air yard. How many cars will be safe and snug in Geneva version 2.0?

So, I'll ask again: Once the cars are all in the shelter, can we count on the tarps coming off the non-restored cars, like our own private (Muni) New Orleans car and other cars that are, at the moment, wrapped in trolley cozies? Even if they aren't scheduled for restoration it would be nice if they were out in the open where people could see them, especially now that "out in the open" is more figurative than literal.

Will the Boat Car be kept here as well?

Boeings on the "F" line? Will they run with a tow truck escort, like the tugs that accompany the Jeremiah O' Brien? (Snark snark...)

Awww, it really does look utterly adorable, and its wonderful that the cars have cover, not to mention the skylights will make for nice photos. Please show pictures of the trolleys in the barn, because it will be hard to get shots of them from the street now. Also, I would like to know what the chances are of pole-equipped Boeings being added to the fleet.

I would highly recommend the black and white photo for the next availible calendar. It's an amazing picture.

Not sure this time around. Sometimes when buses appear on the F-line it's because they don't have enough streetcars ready for service (that's why they're renovating more -- the ridership demand just eats up everything they can put out there). Sometimes, though, it's because they don't have enough operators show up for work who are qualified to operate the F-line streetcars. When they run short, they'll use operators qualified on buses only.

Are the broken trolleys why the F-line has been running with busses instead lately? I hope "soon" means days or weeks beacase the Castro plaza isn't the same with busses :(

Love the two tone green paint job on 1818 and I'm sure 1888 will look just as good when it comes out. 1807 looks real nice as well.

I only regret that I didnt photograph the terminal in fall 1973, when it was still bustling & crowded with commuters in the PM rush, and the sidewalks coming from Market St were packed. At the time, BART didnt cross the bay. I well remember buying at the AC Transit ticket window one-way tickets for Hayward for 70c each--before the great inflation of the 70s. Greyhound still ran to Walnut Creek, Concord & Pittsburg, while other commuters to that area rode AC's C line (which sometimes used an articulated Trailways bus), to MacArthur BART, then rode BART east. The departing AC buses formed a continuous line onto the bridge. Each route variation (e.g., R, RD, RH, RF) had its own bus stop.