How old is the oldest electric streetcar in Muni’s historic fleet? So old that it regularly crossed paths with cable cars on Market Street. When “dinkies” (small, single truck streetcars) like preserved Car 578 were new, they were also novel, in that cable cars dominated San Francisco transit and had the exclusive rights to Market Street. The electric cars only saw Market when they crossed it. While they looked like cable cars, they were twice as fast and very high tech for the time, 120 years ago.
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121 Years in One Day
Muni Supervisor Robert Parks, who trains operators on every type of streetcar and light rail vehicle in the city, may have set a record today.
What Would You Have Saved From the Old Boneyard?
[caption id="attachment_9959" align="alignleft" width="700"] “Bone Yard” at Funston and Lincoln Way, 1944, SFMTA Archive.[/caption]
City Hall Avenue, Around 1913
Getting Ready for Muni Heritage Weekend
Honoring Labor
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