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Location/Date of Photo |
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» San Francisco Municipal Railway (more..)
» St. Louis Car Co. PCC (more..) |
» Market Street near the Ferry Building
» San Francisco, California, USA (more..)
» September 19, 2013 |
| Locomotive No./Train ID |
Photographer |
» MUNI 1059 (more..)
» F-Line (more..) |
» Jamie West (CaliforniaRailfan101) (more..)
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| Remarks & Notes |
| MUNI car #1059 rolls along the Embarcadero in San Francisco. MUNI 1059, built in 1948 by St. Louis Car Company, is painted to commemorate the Boston Elevated Railway Company era of PCC operation in Boston. No U.S. city has had longer or more varied experience with PCC streetcars than Boston. From the delivery of its first streamliner in 1937 until the present day, PCCs have been a part of the Beantown scene. Boston did better than most other cities seeking to expand its PCC fleet during World War II, gaining U.S. government approval for 225 new cars built with controls that allowed two or more cars to be coupled together into trains. Boston's single-end PCCs were unique in the U.S. for having additional doors on the left-hand side to accommodate passengers in Boston's vintage subway. |
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