| Where do you hide a streetcar the size of four elephants? Charlie Smallwood knew. But he wasn't telling. Charles Smallwood was a foreman for the San Francisco Muncipal Railway, called, MUNI, for short. He knew what would happen to Car 130 if they found it. He saw what happened to "iron monsters" like 130. There was nothing wrong with 130.
Except one thing.
It was old. It was old-fashioned. And it was heavy. In the 1950s, the trend was to torch the "iron monsters". It was time to make way for the new light streamliners, the Presidents' Conference Committee Cars, called PCCs, for short.
Charlie didn't believe that old was not good or that new was automatically good. He knew better. But he worried deeply. Charlie's thoughts were like wild nightmares. He saw what happened to old cars. He could easily remember the last streetcar he saw burned at the Elkton Shops where MUNI cars were repaired and dismantled. It was a sight he could not forget...
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