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.
Our 2010 Museums in Motion streetcar and cable car calendar has arrived and is now on sale at the San Francisco Railway Museum and online.
1006 at 33rd Avenue and Anza on the old
B-Geary line around 1952.
In case you didn’t tune into today’s Board of Supervisor’s Budget & Finance Committee meeting on SFGTV, which isn’t as boring as it might sound, committee reviewed the pending contract to restore 16 additional historic PCC streetcars.
Photo courtesy Ian Green
KQED Radio’s program Forum dedicated an hour this morning discussing Muni safety following Monday’s historic streetcar crash and a major crash last month at West Portal Station which which injured 47 people.
So begins a story in this morning’s Wall Street Journal, accompanied by a picture of tourists riding a St. Charles line streetcar. Small irony here: New Orleans was one of the last privately owned big-city transit systems in the U.S., a subsidiary of an electric utility until the 1980s.
Henry onboard New Orleans streetcar no. 952
