Nice photo, James! It must be tens of thousands of trips by now for old No. 2. From the San Francisco Cable Car Museum's website, http://www.cablecarmuseum.org/index.html here is more info on her illustrious past:
"Built by the Carter Bros. of Newark, California during 1893-1894 for the Market Street Railway's Sacramento-Clay cable car line. The United Railroads transferred it to the Powell Street cable car lines in 1907, after the Earthquake and Fire of 1906. Until 1973, numbered as No. 502. Extensive rebuilding, by Muni 1971, using original roof and seats."
No. 2 is now 117 years old and started running on Powell Street in 1907, 104 years ago. Even if she had only been used for one trip a week (highly unlikely) during that time, she would have made over 5,400 trips over the big grades. It's probably a safe bet that she was used for at least 10 trips a week. That would suggest more than 54,000 trips over Nob Hill in her long life on the Powell Street Railway!
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