Calendar: San Francisco F-Market & Wharves with railcar 1040 at Fisherman's Wharf (2023)
Archive: Henrik Boye.
Photographer: Wayne Worden.
Publisher: San Francisco Railway Museum.
Date: February 2023.
City: San Francisco (United States).
The picture shows
San Francisco Railway Museum
Open regularly
San Francisco F-Market & Wharves: Beach & Jones - 17th & Castro
Operational
San Francisco railcar 1040, manufacturer Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company, type PCC, signed Market Fishermans Wharf.
Description
PCC 1040 at Fisherman's Wharf l Wayne Worden photo
February 2023
Almost 5,000 of these sleek streetcars were built in North America, plus more in Europa. A group of private US transit company executives, known as the Presidents'Conferencee Committee (PPC) coommissionedthe original designinthe mid-1930s to better compete for riders with the automobile. Muni's Car 1040, delivered in 1952, was the very last one built new.
Here's 1040 40 yers ago, nose-to-tail with Muni PCC 1128, which had been restored to its original St. Louis livery and number (1704) for the first Trolley Festival. A few years earlier, Car 1040 had been repainted into Muni's then-new Landor livery. Soon, it would be restored to the green and cream it wore before and has ever since.
Roger Fox photo, MSR Archive
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