In this case, it needs to recover its nervous system. Streetcar No. 1071, painted in the original livery it ran in when new in Minneapolis-St. Paul in the late 1940s, left Muni’s Geneva Division today for a cross-country trip to Brookville Equipment Company in Pennsylvania where it will be completely rewired.
It’s the first of 16 PCCs to leave San Francisco under an $18 million contract that will double Muni’s active PCC fleet when all the work is completed by the end of 2011. This particular car should be back by mid-October of next year.
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