Re: Vintage San Francisco Street Car photos from Ray L
Author: Holly
Date: 04-07-2016 - 14:19
RVJ Refugee Wrote:
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> > Graham Buxton Wrote:
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> > Thank you !
> > Love the photo of 0925 !
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> > Is this that same car still in service !?
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> Unlike the C-1, 0925 was originally a Market
> Street Railway car. Smallwood's "White Front Cars
> of San Francisco" doesn't give exact dates, but it
> was on the roster in 1921 and was "gone by the
> early 1950s." Note the knuckle coupler--it's
> primary job was switching the SP interchange at
> Elkton, as in the photo where's it's towing a
> flatcar with a newly-delivered PCC.
Learn something new everyday! Thanks, RVJ!