Click to enlarge. Market and Van Ness, August 1938, zoomed-in aerlal photo from David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.
San Francisco’s Past on Tap in Two Unique Ways
Author: Rick Laubscher
Second Rewired PCC Accepted by Muni
PCC No. 1079, honoring the Detroit Department of Street Railways, turns the corner from Mission onto The Embarcadero during its first stint in F-line service in 2008. Frank Zepeda photo.
Muni Begins Its Centennial Year
Fifty Thousand San Franciscans came out to cheer the opening of the Municipal Railway on Geary Street, December 28, 1912. Muni Archives.
Photos Wanted For Our 2013 Calendar
The back cover of our 2012 calendar includes thumbnails of the large images we used on each month’s main page. Click to enlarge.
Photo of the (Past) Moment: Christmas 1944
San Francisco Municipal Railway streetcar No. 1 on Stockton Street at Market, the terminal of the original F-Stockton line, Christmas Day 1944. Roy D. Graves photo, Market Street Railway Archives.
Museum Closed Until January 3, 2012
Our San Francisco Railway Museum will be closed for inventory and cleaning between December 24 and January 2. We’ll be open again Tuesday, January 3 at 10 a.m. You can still shop for gifts online, and of course, the F-line streetcars and cable cars are operating daily.
Hope We Don’t Have to Return This Present
PCC No. 1071, painted to honor Minneapolis-St. Paul, testing recently on West Portal Avenue.
Looking a Lot Like Christmas
Decorated Powell cable car No. 13 at the Market Street turntable. Jeremy Whiteman photo.
Car 1040: Newest All Over Again
Restored Muni PCC No. 1040 at Muni Metro East, December 15, 2011. (Yes, it can run the outer end of the L-Taraval line, and others, too.) Click photos to enlarge.
“Big Red Car” Back on Track
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