Mayor Ed Lee (right) inspects newly restored 1912 Muni streetcar No. 1 with SFMTA Transportation Director Ed Reiskin (Center) and Market Street Railway President Rick Laubscher.
Congratulations, Mayor Lee!
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Thank You, SPUR!
Safe From the Weather At Last
1924 Market Street Railway Co. car No. 798, last of its kind, is backed into sheltered storage at Muni’s Cameron Beach Yard, November 1, 2011. Click on photo to enlarge.
Call Me Ishmael
Honoring Cam Beach
A crowd of more than 200 gathered for the ceremony, October 25, 2011, under a new sign on the protective canopy for Muni’s historic streetcar fleet that Cam beach championed.
A Most Fitting Tribute
Tuesday, October 25 at 10 a.m., Mayor Edwin Lee, SFTMA head Ed Reiskin, and many other dignitaries will gather at Geneva and San Jose Avenues in the Excelsior District to rename the Geneva Streetcar Yard, built in 1900, for Cameron Beach.
A Great Book You’ll Want to Own – or Give!
We are really proud to announce the arrival of a wonderful book that is both a labor of love and a product of passion for our city’s transit system. It will make a great gift for anyone who loves San Francisco history or urban transit, or who would just get a kick of seeing how our town used to look.
Bus Museum Open House on Sunday
Pacific Bus Museum’s vintage GM "Old Look" coach stands sentinel at Grace Cathedral earlier this year during the memorial service for SFMTA Director (and former MSR vice president) Cam Beach. The bus is painted in our namesake’s "zip stripe" livery, but lettered for "Niles Canyon Lines," the route it runs carrying people to the rail museum there.
Congratulations, San Diego!
This week, they publicly unveiled San Diego’s new PCC streetcar. Here’s a video clip.
Christmas in July?
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