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Published: 2008-03-21 18:17:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 1328; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 34
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Seems like nobody cares about my attempts at vector stuff, so here's another railroad picture.Everybody knows about San Francisco's Cable Cars . What isn't so well known, at least on my side of the Atlantic, is that there's also a historic streetcar line. While this isn't exactly on the same level as the cable cars, it certainly makes for a lot of interesting pictures.
Streetcar 1057, a PCC car, is painted in the colors of a Cincinnati streetcar operator. There's a good chance it's never been to Cincinnati, though, as Market Street Railway, the ones responsible for the line, like to paint their cars in the colors of cities all over the US.
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nice love these streetcars. The reason for the different paint shcemes is Muni wanted to reprasent all the cities that ran these cars. ^^
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ITS A PCC!!!!!! we have these still operating the mattapan & ashmont line in boston.
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Nice to hear that they are still in regular service elsewhere. I quite liked them when I was in San Francisco.
Thank you for the 
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Yeah, they ride so smoothly!
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Ah- the PCC. A handsome design and a revolutionary car. Hard to believe that the basic design of these cars dates to 1935. Almost three-quarters of a century, yet it is not dated. The most successful streetcar ever.
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Yes, especially if you consider that streetcars with PCC-derived design have been used all over the world, and in many places still are in daily use and will probably remain so for the foreseeable future.
Thank you for the
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You're welcome.
I've read the book '
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For details about the history of San Francisco's Muni historic streetcar service, check out the link below.
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It turns out, that the Muni owns a total of 17 PCC cars. Fourteen of them were purchased from Philadelphia.
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If I remember correctly, the San Francisco Muni bought most of the PCC cars used from other transit authorities that were switching to buses and restored them. A significant portion of the San Francisco cars have previously served in one or two other cities. Kansas City used to have over a hundred miles of trams, and most of them were PCC. They were sold to Canadian cities in the '50's, then sold to San Francisco when the Canadian cities upgraded to modern LRV's from Bombardier or Siemens.
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ooooh.... a real live PCC! beautiful shot... and yes it looks like a banana... LOL!
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This line in San Francisco is full of these PCCs. Very beautiful cars, all of them.
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Not a banana!
If anyone who's reading this cares, this particular streetcar had a sign inside of it, that explained that this is the special "Shirley Temple" color scheme, whith some explanations where that came from (I don't remember most of it though).
But anyway, I think it's bad style to call it banana when it really is a Shirley Temple.
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Ah yes. The 'other' San Fran tramway.True, it is lesser known than the cable cars, but god are they beautiful vehicles. I think yellow strangely suits this tram...
Tramlink also had a yellow tram for a time. Totally random, off the topic and unrelated, yes, but still a true point. It was in the earlier days of operation, when most of the routes were still being finished off, and it was advertising for the services of the main contractor for the construction work, Amey.
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What I found most interesting were the ancient trams from Milan. I had been to Milan about one and a half years earlier, and the trams were basically exactly the same. Some labels got an english translation as well, but otherwise, even the italian ads (not historic at all) were still in there.
Trams with advertisement are often the most interesting ones these days. Most operators opt for simple and boring paint schemes. Sure, not everything can be a warbonnet, but even this (rather simple) paint scheme here looks a whole lot better and more interesting than anything I usually see driving around germany.
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At least it's a nicer colour than our "Milka" coloured trams and busses
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