Muni teams have been working overtime to get vintage vehicles ready for special Sunday service tomorrow (November 4) and November 11.
Getting Ready for Centennial Celebrations
Fleet Updates
The Boat is Back!
Boat tram No. 228 at the Wharf on its first day back in service, October 13, 2012. William Daniels photo from the Market Street Railway Facebook group.
Car 1 on the F-line! Get Out and Ride!
The big Fleet Week/America’s Cup/Giants Playoff weekend is under way, complete with E-line service. It includes the first regular passenger service for Muni’s Car No. 1, its very first streetcar, since its rebuilding. This surprise appearance by No. 1, apparently operating on the F-line between 11th Street and Fisherman’s Wharf, follows a ceremonial debut earlier this year and a couple of charters, including one for our Market Street Railway members. Here’s how to find out whether Car No. 1, shown on the screenshot below, is on the street as you read this, and which other streetcars are out on the E- and F-lines this weekend.
Come Ride the E-line Twin Torpedos (and Volunteer) Oct. 6-7
The Day the Streetcars (Almost) Died
When PCC No. 1108 took the N-Judah beach loop on September 17, 1982, it was thought it would be the last PCC to ever do that. Thanks to lots of effort by advocates, that turned out not to be true. Bob Davis photo.
Inside Muni’s Streetcar Restoration Vendor
Muni’s current vendor for streetcar restoration, Brookville Equipment Corporation of Pennsylvania, has produced a promotional video about its services. It’s got several shots of newly restored PCC No. 1006 (or is it 1008? – they’re identical and not numbered in the shots) on the shop floor (starting at 0:47 on the video), along with a peek at their mate No. 1009, partially painted in its Dallas & Terminal Railway livery (at 1:38).
E-line Weekend Features Debut of No. 1008
Ride the E-line Streetcars August 25 and 26!
The details are pretty well worked out now. Muni’s E-Embarcadero historic streetcar line will operate Saturday and Sunday, August 25 and 26, from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. in conjunction with the America’s Cup World Series event.
Streetcar-Subaru Sandwich at First and Market
Photo by Steve Ferrario.
First Double-End PCC in Testing
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