PCC No. 1071, painted to honor Minneapolis-St. Paul, testing recently on West Portal Avenue.
Hope We Don’t Have to Return This Present
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Looking a Lot Like Christmas
Decorated Powell cable car No. 13 at the Market Street turntable. Jeremy Whiteman photo.
Car 1040: Newest All Over Again
Restored Muni PCC No. 1040 at Muni Metro East, December 15, 2011. (Yes, it can run the outer end of the L-Taraval line, and others, too.) Click photos to enlarge.
“Big Red Car” Back on Track
Photo of the Moment: Tracking Testing and Training
In the gloaming on West Portal Avenue, PCCs honoring Toronto (1074) and Los Angeles (1080) are about to turn onto the L-Taraval line for testing and training, December 8, 2011. Photo copyright Jeremy Whiteman.
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.
More F-line Service. But More Streetcars?
Pilot PCC No. 1071 on a test run at the L-Taraval Zoo terminal, September 29
Taking Artistic License – With the Facts
Artist’s concept of a possible F-line stop on Beach Street at Hyde, with artists’ stalls right beside the stop, which would replace current automobile parking spots in the curb lane.
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