Decorated Cable Cars, Now and Then

December 15, 2018December 15, 2018 Rick Laubscher Cable Cars, Features, Posts with Photos, SFMSR, Wheels - Peter Witt Class Cable Car Christmas, cable cars, decorated cable cars, decorated streetcars, San Francisco Chronicle

‘Tis the season to show off holiday spirit in all kinds of ways. The San Francisco Chronicle is both reporting and demonstrating that spirit with our most iconic transit vehicles, the cable cars. You can see the publication’s handiwork on Powell Cable Car 1 (pictured in the photo by Val Lupiz above, complete with Victorian-costumed guests), one of eight cable cars decorated this year in a growing campaign led by Val, Jeremy Whiteman, and Frank Zepeda (MSR members all), and supported by Market Street Railway.

Muni’s “Fireplace”

December 12, 2018December 12, 2018 Rick Laubscher SFMSR PCC

Flash back a half-century or more, when the West Portal of the Twin Peaks Tunnel was done up to resemble a giant brick fireplace, complements of local merchants. We see PCC Car 1010 about to plunge into the “hearth” on its trip downtown, emerging a few minutes later at Market and Castro Streets.

All About Muni’s Archives, November 29

November 19, 2018 Rick Laubscher Posts with Photos

John Haley Leaves Muni

October 26, 2018October 27, 2018 Rick Laubscher Muni News John Haley

Iron Monster Trucked to Fix Trucks

October 19, 2018October 19, 2018 Rick Laubscher Fleet Updates, Posts with Photos 162

Ride Hyde the Way it Used to Be!

September 6, 2018September 6, 2018 Rick Laubscher Double-Ended Cable Cars, Muni News, Posts with Photos cable car 42, Muni Heritage Weekend, O'Farrell Jones & Hyde line

Steam Streetcar on Market Street, 1864

August 13, 2018August 13, 2018 Rick Laubscher History Spotlight, Posts with Photos

Incredible Film: Cable Cars on Pacific Ave., 1929

August 12, 2018August 12, 2018 Rick Laubscher SFMSR 1929, Fox Movietone, Pacific Avenue cable car, San Francisco cable car

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, you haven’t. A couple of months ago, we got a call asking whether we recognized the location of a film. We did — Pacific Avenue. We had never seen motion pictures of that line, which closed in 1929. Now, the video has been posted on YouTube, with additional information on the provenance of the film.