Market Street Railway is a non-profit organization with 1000 members, founded in 1976. Our mission: Preserving Historic Transit in San Francisco.
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We also operate the free San Francisco Railway Museum across from the Ferry Building at 77 Steuart Street, open Tuesdays-Sundays, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Our group’s leaders were the driving force in making vintage streetcars a full-time part of the San Francisco scene in the 1980s and 1990s.
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that was an awesome peek into the past. good find!!
That’s a pretty good look at what the old covered storage at Geneva Division looked like. It’s too bad they ever tore that down…
If I remember correctly, they didn’t have to tear it down as much as keep it from falling down of its own accord. It was definitely dangerous…structurally shot and a firetrap to boot. But they could’ve replaced it with something similar at the time, and the historic fleet would’ve been a lot better off for the past 25 years.
True… having the entire historic fleet burn down in a single shot would have been a tad bit worse than weather damage I imagine!
What a time-trip! I first started visiting MuniLand in 1967, so the video was quite a journey to nostalgia. I think by then Muni had started using GM diesel busses, but the photographer managed to miss them. He did catch some of the many attractive women of The City in addition to the transit operations. I spotted some “things that aren’t there anymore”, such as the Phelan Loop, the original West Portal and the East Bay Terminal loop (as well as the Geneva Barn).
Bob Davis
San Gabriel CA