Mastodawn

@timnolen Thanks. A new research project :)
St Louis had a substantial system. After all, the "Clang Clang Clang went the Trolley" song is from Meet Me in St Louis!
Also, one of the biggest and longest lived streetcar building companies (they *almost* survived into the modern light rail era, but also not quite) was the St Louis Car company, who tested a lot of cars intended for other cities on the local system, which must have been fun to see.
Their last big production run were PCC cars (like on the #SFMuni F-Line). I think most of the surviving PCC's are theirs.

Militant Pedestrian Feb 14

Early this morning, the last pull in at Potrero Division before this Muni yard closes for years for a major reconstruction and expansion project.

This facility has been in operation for 111 years. The end of an era!

#Transit #publictransit #sanfranciso #muni #sfmuni

midendian Feb 4

#SanFrancisco transit folks, does anyone have a copy of the two pages of descriptive text that originally came with this poster? friend lost their copy and I can’t find the text online anywhere. it had a list of all the characters in the boat. #sfmuni

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14mission Dec 31

Prints hung up to dry.
#SFMuni #KodakBrownie #ContactPrint

14mission Dec 28

#KodakBrownie picture of an #SFMuni #FLine PCC streetcar on a rainy night (Xmas Eve, actually).
The angle is kind of low because there wasn't anything handy to prop the camera on, and I didn't want to mess with a tripod when it was starting to rain again, so I put a little wooden box on the curb.
Information about this car: https://www.streetcar.org/streetcars/1059-1059-boston-elevated-railway/
#StreetCar #PCCStreetcar #PCC #Tram #Trolley

14mission Dec 15

From the eastern edge of #GoldenGatePark.
#KodakBrownie #SFMuni

14mission Dec 15

Mostly I like to post pictures that came out well. This one I'd like to do over again. Mostly I should have just aimed lower. But it's interesting, too. The streetcar at the bottom is warped. This is something that is kind of expected with the Brownie's simple lens. But interesting/odd that it's asymmetrical--that crane on the top of the image is pretty straight. Or maybe the distortion is only in the very marginal areas?
One thing I'm happy with is that I used the "SunCalc.org" app to pick the perfect time to come out and take this when the sun would be a good angle.
I'm in the area pretty often, I'll have another go at this next week.
#KodakBrownie #SFMuni #Trolley