Soon after going into service in Boston, October 1960, showing “MTA” logo. Hal Greenwald photo, Joe Testagrose collection through nycsubway.org
Painting Torpedoes (Part 2: Boston, Massachusetts)
Author: Rick Laubscher
Painting Torpedoes (Part 1: Dallas, Texas)
Muni Car No. 1006 in 1951 at Chestnut and Fillmore, in its original green and cream “Wings” livery, during a fantrip on the old F-Stockton line. Fred Mathews Photo.
Market Street Pilot Program Great for F-line
PCC streetcars pass reach other on Market Street
Happy Third Anniversary to Our Museum!
The San Francisco Railway Museum opened the Wednesday after Labor Day three years ago. If you’ve never visited, come on by. If you have, come see recent additions!
Shaping San Francisco
One of San Francisco’s under-sung heroes is Rick Prelinger, founder and curator of the Prelinger Archive. He has uncovered and preserved countless movie clips that document our city’s past.
Sunset in the Sunset
Our friends at Streetsblog San Francisco unearthed a wonderful photo by an old friend of MSR, Leroy Demery, Jr. It was taken in 1972 at the L-Taraval terminal at 46th and Wawona, and features Muni’s streetcar No. 1 at the height of its restored glory.
Streetcar Restoration Passes Board of Supervisors!
1006 at 33rd Avenue and Anza on the old
B-Geary line around 1952.
Second Melbourne Tram En Route
Photo courtesy Ian Green
F-line accident at Noe Street
Jamison Wieser photo.
Streetcar No. 1 Restoration Underway
Muni’s flagship streetcar, 1912 No. 1, has safely arrived at the shops of the contractor, Brookville Equipment Company in Pennsylvania (below), the first time in its 97-year life that the streetcar has left San Francisco. Reports we’ve received tell us restoration has already started.
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