First, after driving the abandoned V&T right of way many times, I never imagined that by last summer I would be shooting photos of a steam engine passing thru the gap at Haywards and entering American Flat. Yes, the right of way doesn't look like the old photos we have seen and #29 is not one of the original V&T engines, but it still is amazing to see.



Growing up in the Bay Area, we made many trips to The City. The Embarcadero Freeway, streetcars on Market St. and several rides on the MUNI's B-Geary line out to the French Hospital. By 1957, the Geary line was gone but still some of the heavyweight cars still rumbled up and down Market until the arrival of the last three PCC cars from St. Louis. I never dreamed I would see the freeway gone, and streetcar tracks again on the Embarcadero, much less one of the Iron Monsters, repurchased from Orange Empire, plying the streets.
Last year, it was true as #162 turned onto Mission St on its way to Market in F-line service.