Like streetcar No. 1040, this streetcar currently wears Muni’s famous green and cream “Wings” livery that graced its vehicle fleet, buses and streetcars alike, through the 1950s and 1960s.

Todd Lappin photo.

When the first streamlined PCC streetcars were restored to open the F-line in 1995, it was thought fitting that the “flagship” of this class (the lowest number of a group of identical streetcars) should be painted in the Wings livery, because of its familiarity to generations of San Franciscans. This streetcar itself, however, comes from Philadelphia, where it ran for more than 40 years before being acquired second-hand by Muni with other cars now numbered between 1050 and 1063. This “1050-class” of streetcars was fully renovated and made wheelchair accessible in time to open the F-line opened in 1995.

Now that three original Muni streetcars are being renovated to wear the Wings livery (Nos. 1006, 1008, and 1040), it is expected that No. 1050 will be switched to a different livery when it requires repainting. North American cities that once ran PCCs, but are not yet represented in Muni’s tribute fleet, include: Pittsburgh; St. Louis; Shaker Heights, Ohio; Johnstown, Pennsylvania; Vancouver, British Columbia; Montreal; and Tampico, Mexico. So in the future, No. 1050 may have an entirely different look.

No. 1051 »  

  « No. 1040