The Embarcadero - San Francisco (California USA)

The Embarcadero | Line F 22/11/2009 13h52
This 1948 Philidelphia PCC streetcar just lost contact with the overhead when he turned from The Embarcadero back to Beach Street. Puting the trolley back seems quite easy and was done in a minute while traffic waited patiently.

Philidelphia 1007 on Muni Line F
This car commemorates Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Co. (PST)--the 'Red Arrow' lines serving Philly's western suburbs--which ran PCC streetcars from 1949 to 1982.
In 1940, PST modernized its fleet with ten 'Brilliners', a PCC competitor from old-line trolley builder J.G. Brill & Co. But the PST order turned out to be the last cars Brill ever built. Needing more cars after the war, PST turned to St. Louis Car Co., which offered a body shell nearly identical to one bought by Muni (including car No. 1007) and Illinois Terminal Railroad.
Fourteen of these cars arrived in 1949 and were initially used on the 19-mile West Chester line, later on the Sharon Hills and Media lines. The private PST was ultimately taken over by the public SEPTA agency, and by 1982 the PCCs and Brilliners were supplanted by Kawasaki light rail vehicles.
Underneath the "Red Arrow" livery, No. 1007 itself has actually been a San Francisco Muni streetcar all its life. It ran from 1948 until 1982 on Muni's J, K, L, M, and N lines, and was then retired and stored before being rehabilitated for the F-line opening in 1995. At first, the restored No. 1007 was painted in a modernistic silver and red San Francisco scheme like that of Muni's Breda LRVs. It wasn't popular, so Muni paint shops applied the handsome "Red Arrow" livery in 1997.
[ Source: www.streetcar.org/streetcars/1007/ ]

Taken in: United States / California / San Francisco / Fisherman's Wharf (show map)

Taken on: November 22, 2009

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