PCC No. 1006 carries a load of raifans on the H-line, crossing paths with Washington-Jackson cable car No. 509 at Van Ness Avenue and Jackson Street, around 1949. Walt Vielbaum photo. Click to enlarge.
Market Street Railway board chair and president Rick Laubscher was one of the guests on Michael Krasny’s “Forum” on KQED-FM this morning, discussing Muni’s history in this, its centennial month. He was joined by Ed Reiskin, SFMTA director of transportation, and Jerry Cauthen of savemuni.com.
The GLBT Historical Society has a video on YouTube showing nine minutes of San Francisco scenes filmed by “gay filmmaker Harold T. O’Neal.” It opens with great night shots of Chinatown, then skips around the city before settling on a two-minute sequence on Market Street starting around five minutes in. That’s followed by a minute of cable car footage, including rare film of the O’Farrell, Jones & Hyde line, which disappeared in 1954. All well worth a look.
What a string of December days we’re having in the City! Absolutely clear and 61 degrees when this shot was taken and posted Monday morning. We’re looking at Piers 3 and 5 and The Embarcadero from one of the Golden Gateway apartment towers, with PCC No. 1076 tooling along! Click to enlarge it.
Kevin Sheridan and Tim Baskerville will give a talk about the photos in their “Inside-Out” show on Saturday, December 8, at the Harvey Milk Photo Center, 50 Scott Street at Duboce Avenue. Take the N-Judah to the east portal of the Sunset Tunnel.
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PCC No. 1073, honoring El Paso-Juarez, on its first day of F-line service on lower Market Street, November 28, 2012. Jeremy Whiteman photo. Click to enlarge.
…it’s a window into a wonderful railroad operation in South America, captured by Market Street Railway member and co-chair of our calendar committee Kevin Sheridan. He’s just back from a trip to Chile, where he rode the rails and saw some great scenery, with and without trains.
On this Thanksgiving weekend, we’d like to shout out thanks to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), Muni’s parent, for their continuing support of historic transit. There are few agencies in the country that meaningfully support their own legacies, and none that do so in four distinct vehicle modes. (Of course, no one else HAS four vehicle modes like Muni: streetcar/light rail, motor coach, trolley coach, and cable car).
