The “Euro-PCC” is Back in Action.

February 16, 2014October 15, 2014 Rick Laubscher Fleet Updates, Homepage Rotating Posts, Muni News, Posts with Photos, Restoration 737, Brussels, PCC, Zurich

Photo by Brice Crandall, San Francisco Railway Museum.

Photo of the (Past) Moment: Ferry Heyday

January 31, 2014October 11, 2014 Rick Laubscher History Spotlight, Photo of the Moment

Ferry Loop, April 1936. Ralph W. Demoro photo, Al Schwoerer collection. Click to enlarge.

Brussels ‘Sprouts’ in the (Premature) Spring

January 21, 2014October 15, 2014 Rick Laubscher Fleet Updates, Homepage Rotating Posts, Posts with Photos

Hot Holiday Gift Ideas at Our Museum

November 22, 2013October 11, 2014 Rick Laubscher Homepage Rotating Posts, Posts with Photos

Hey, what if Mark Zuckerberg loved Muni? Hey, maybe he does. I mean, he now has a place on the J-Church!

Red Heritage

November 17, 2013August 15, 2014 Rick Laubscher SFMSR

One of the many restored Russian trolley buses involved in the 80th anniversary celebration. Thanks to Jeff Marinoff for tipping us off to this.

Building a better Market Street

November 12, 2013November 15, 2020 Rick Laubscher SFMSR Better Market Street, Bicycle Coalition, cycletrack, Market Street, San Francisco Bicycle Coalition

NOTE: This article was written for our member magazine, Inside Track, in 2013. Seven years later, after continuous planning for extensive changes to Market Street, City department heads announced there was no money available for most of the envisioned changes, due largely to the Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on city finances.

Muni Heritage Weekend: Same Time Next Year!

November 7, 2013August 9, 2014 Rick Laubscher Homepage Rotating Posts, News, Posts with Photos

San Francisco’s two "boat trams," originally from Blackpool, England, pose together for the first time on The Embarcadero during Muni Heritage Weekend. The new acquisition by Market Street Railway, No. 233, made possible by a generous grant from the Thoresen Foundation and a shipping subsidy from FedEx Trade Networks, is to the left, with No. 228 to the right.

Reminder: It’s Muni Heritage Weekend

November 1, 2013October 11, 2014 Rick Laubscher SFMSR

Scenes such as this will be common this weekend. Taken during Muni’s centennial celebration last weekend, this lineup at Market and California Streets shows (left to right) trolley coach No. 776 (1950), Muni’s Car No. 1 (1912), PCC No. 1006 (1948), and behind the trees to the right, O’Farrell, Jones & Hyde Streets cable car No. 42 (1906). Rick Laubscher photo