Great video! Thanks for preserving the history of street cars in the USA. I forgot there were so many still running. It is a great mass transit solution.
Gracias por compartir tan nostálgico video y mis respetos a los gobiernos, que saben conservar sus usos y costumbres de antaño, combinandolo con lo moderno. Aquí en la Ciudad de México, hasta muy entrados los años 70s del siglo pasado, se les veía por doquier y ahora con nostalgia podemos apreciar por algunos rumbos de la ciudad sólo las viejas vías donde alguna vez pasó un hermoso tranvía. Reciban un saludo cordial desde la Ciudad de México!!!!
Great video. Good to see retired cars from my city (Milan, Italy) running in SF: they are the sleek orange or yellow/white cars, built locally in 1929/1930 in 500 units.
Muni has painted its PCC streetcars in the paint schemes of many of the cities that ran PCC streetcars (but most of them originally ran in Philadelphia).
Oh dear, how to miss the point completely. Of course he's still in SFo, he's just kindly identiying the livery on that particular PCC Trolley. Just come back from a week in SFo (from England) and your video was most useful in giving me a good idea of what I was going to see. I now recognise all your locations - and all the trolleys. Many thanks.
Dear Little., Thanks for your response. Thanks for your information. It seems an odd name to call something, maybe they weren't thinking globaly. . The southern pacific, is a nice place, there is even a nice musical about the south pacific, too. Was redone recently showing at nyc. May be they could have called it the Northern Pacific Railroad, that would be a good name for when San Francisco trains go from Alaska to Russia via tunnel. . . Cheers. from, del-boy.
Southern Pacific was named such because their mainline ran from New Orleans to Los Angeles, reaching the southern part of the US Pacific Coast. The Northern Pacific went to Seattle, at the northern part of the US Pacific Coast. Eventually the SP extended all the way to Portland.
I was here before the streetcars. They started breaking up the pavement the last day I was here, 1994ish. I have no desire to go back, video is enough thank you.
I havent been to San Fran in almost 20 years, so I was just wondering if you would be able to advise me if A/C Transit still exists or not, and seeing these classic trolley cars is really amazing, do you happen to know about hold old these cars are that you showed in your video????? One of them loos actually familler from one of Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry Movies, where he had to deliver that bag full of money to a certain destion and he actually hopped on board one of the trolleys during his route.......
During my trip there in 2012, we rode the cable cars, the electric buses, the MUNI subway...but the electric trolleys are the one aspect we didn't take advantage of with our "MUNI PASS".
Most if not all of the PCC cars, came from Phila., PA and have varying heritages (Montreal, St. Louis, Toronto, Kansas City and of course Phila) if I am correct.
JAMES ZERBE: Many of the PCCs running in the City today are ones that once ran here (a lot were left in open storage for many, many years and were not candidates for later rehab due to extremely deteriorated conditions). Some were bought first-hand by San Francisco (the Baby 10s and the double-ended Streamliners) in the late '40s and the early '50s (fun fact: car 1040 is the last production PCC built in the US by Saint Louis Car Co. and is still in service today). Others were purchased second-hand from other properties to provide service as the City converted all of the former Market Street Railway's car lines to trolley coach (with a few as motor coach) and retired the older Muni and Market cars built in the very late 1800s through the early 1900s (similar to car 162 shown at 4:45). During the last couple decades of the 20th Century, more cars were acquired to service the new E line and to expand service on the F line. All cars now in use have been completely rehabbed by Brookville Equipment (Pennsylvania). Check out www.streetcar.org for more information, history, and to become a member of the Market Street Railway. I hope this helps.
Thanks! I didn't know Frisco had any trolleys, we Aussies call trams. Reminds me a lot of George St. and Circular Quay when I was a lot younger. Our old trolleys now in a museum at Loftus, Sydney. Yes ours were just as noisy, with are ancient "toast rack" tram being completely air conditioned ! SYDNEY TRAM MUSEUM LOFTUS watch?v=tMDH5mIttbo
Plz let me know about the month and year of shooting this video so than I may understand the weather conditions. Most probably your video has been shot in summer but which month?
@ 0:20, that's a trolley. Also known as a trolley coach, or trackless trolley. In San Francisco, they're known as trolleys, as opposed to streetcars, which run on rails, and cable cars, which do no use electricity.
Gee I wish L.A. would have kept their red cars. They look just like the ones in this video. Traffic wouldn't be that bad and we would have clean air . Now the city and county want to bring them back in a whole different way. I hope they do . I am tired of the bus system out here . Being behind the wheel is the same as taking the bus nothing but traffic out here.
As a local of LA it could extend the Light Rail system and the whole transportation system since San Francisco not only has Muni Metro but also The streetcars
Did you know there is a website dedicated to the filming locations of Dirty Harry? It's very detailed and informative. I found it and checked it out in the hotel room during my visit in 2012.....fun!
@@MilwaukeeF40C : And just what's wrong with the Ingleside line? Do you even take it? Do you even live in the City? It ties my neighborhood with downtown.
Ojalá y nuestro super presidente Andrés Manuel López obrador padre de la honestidad y la justicia humana nuestro super man mexicano rescate los trenes tranvías, es el transporte del futuro 🙋♀️🙋♂️🇲🇽🙋♂️🙋♀️🧐🙋♀️🙋♂️🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽
what angers me is they only run on Market St what I love most about the SF system is the Twin peeks tunnel and the Jllines deep narrow Cut in the Park I forget t he name of it
I was at Powell and Market waiting to board a cable car once, and saw some idiot riding his bicycle right down the middle of Market Street! BETWEEN the streetcar tracks! He should be lucky the PCC streetcars weren't running that day. Suppose he had wound up between two of them?
Great video! Thanks for preserving the history of street cars in the USA. I forgot there were so many still running. It is a great mass transit solution.
Gracias por compartir tan nostálgico video y mis respetos a los gobiernos, que saben conservar sus usos y costumbres de antaño, combinandolo con lo moderno. Aquí en la Ciudad de México, hasta muy entrados los años 70s del siglo pasado, se les veía por doquier y ahora con nostalgia podemos apreciar por algunos rumbos de la ciudad sólo las viejas vías donde alguna vez pasó un hermoso tranvía. Reciban un saludo cordial desde la Ciudad de México!!!!
Acá en Paraguay en asunción también había tranvías Hasta bien entrado los 90s al final se sacaron de circulación incluso se quitaron las vías😢
The streets of San Francisco are really amazing!!!
Как гармонично сочетается в Сан-Франциско старое и новое.
Trams like these would pimp up ANY *new/old/boring* city. They fit so nicely into the cityscape :_)
Great video.
Good to see retired cars from my city (Milan, Italy) running in SF: they are the sleek orange or yellow/white cars, built locally in 1929/1930 in 500 units.
Peter Witt are so beautiful! They make a great combination along with the PCC ones.
I remember riding the F line and the cable cars when I was in San Francisco!
I saw one of those PCC cars when I was there back in 1981. They were also here in Philly as well.
Love these trolley cars! Just want Denver & Colorado Springs need.
I wish my city kept our trolley cars as maintained as these.
👍👍👍
Southern Pacific was a Railroad that operated throughout California and most of the Southwest. They ran I believe all the way up into Orgeon too.
Excelentes tranvias de San Francisco.
Muni has painted its PCC streetcars in the paint schemes of many of the cities that ran PCC streetcars (but most of them originally ran in Philadelphia).
I grew up in San Francisco. They were all painted the green and cream scheme. Most of the Muni cars were made by Saint Louis Car Company.
Nice,,,,,
Oh dear, how to miss the point completely. Of course he's still in SFo, he's just kindly identiying the livery on that particular PCC Trolley.
Just come back from a week in SFo (from England) and your video was most useful in giving me a good idea of what I was going to see. I now recognise all your locations - and all the trolleys. Many thanks.
lovely video, nice quality image.
"like being there'' !
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Cheers.
from,
del-boy
Dear Little.,
Thanks for your response.
Thanks for your information.
It seems an odd name to call something, maybe they weren't thinking globaly.
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The southern pacific, is a nice place, there is even a nice musical about the south pacific, too.
Was redone recently showing at nyc.
May be they could have called it the Northern Pacific Railroad, that would be a good name for when San Francisco trains go from Alaska to Russia via tunnel.
.
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Cheers.
from,
del-boy.
6:05 - Green car is painted for Brooklyn & Queens Transit (BMT Lines); NYC Board of Transportation.
Southern Pacific was named such because their mainline ran from New Orleans to Los Angeles, reaching the southern part of the US Pacific Coast. The Northern Pacific went to Seattle, at the northern part of the US Pacific Coast. Eventually the SP extended all the way to Portland.
I was here before the streetcars. They started breaking up the pavement the last day I was here, 1994ish. I have no desire to go back, video is enough thank you.
I think people in the Bay Area take these PCC cars for granted and don't understand what Jewels these cars are.
I'm glad the city of New Orleans understands what jewels streetcars are. In fact, they're opening a 5th streetcar line later this year.
Same with San Diego
1.Well, I sure don't! 2.I sure love these, and behold! the original cars,too..strealined!
YEP, I LOVE RAILROAD TROLLEYS, ALMOST AS MUCH AS I LOVE RAILROAD TRAINS. ;-)
I havent been to San Fran in almost 20 years, so I was just wondering if you would be able to advise me if A/C Transit still exists or not, and seeing these classic trolley cars is really amazing, do you happen to know about hold old these cars are that you showed in your video????? One of them loos actually familler from one of Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry Movies, where he had to deliver that bag full of money to a certain destion and he actually hopped on board one of the trolleys during his route.......
AC Transit still exists.
@6666steved thanks for the kind words, glad you enjoyed the videos.
During my trip there in 2012, we rode the cable cars, the electric buses, the MUNI subway...but the electric trolleys are the one aspect we didn't take advantage of with our "MUNI PASS".
Most if not all of the PCC cars, came from Phila., PA and have varying heritages (Montreal, St. Louis, Toronto, Kansas City and of course Phila) if I am correct.
JAMES ZERBE: Many of the PCCs running in the City today are ones that once ran here (a lot were left in open storage for many, many years and were not candidates for later rehab due to extremely deteriorated conditions). Some were bought first-hand by San Francisco (the Baby 10s and the double-ended Streamliners) in the late '40s and the early '50s (fun fact: car 1040 is the last production PCC built in the US by Saint Louis Car Co. and is still in service today). Others were purchased second-hand from other properties to provide service as the City converted all of the former Market Street Railway's car lines to trolley coach (with a few as motor coach) and retired the older Muni and Market cars built in the very late 1800s through the early 1900s (similar to car 162 shown at 4:45). During the last couple decades of the 20th Century, more cars were acquired to service the new E line and to expand service on the F line. All cars now in use have been completely rehabbed by Brookville Equipment (Pennsylvania). Check out www.streetcar.org for more information, history, and to become a member of the Market Street Railway. I hope this helps.
very good video
Esses veículos ainda estão na ativa ?
Olá o Bond é um veículo fantástico e não polue o ar! 🚋👍
Abraço 😷
YES I ENJOY YOUR VIDEO
Thanks! I didn't know Frisco had any trolleys, we Aussies call trams. Reminds me a lot of George St. and Circular Quay when I was a lot younger. Our old trolleys now in a museum at Loftus, Sydney. Yes ours were just as noisy, with are ancient "toast rack" tram being completely air conditioned !
SYDNEY TRAM MUSEUM LOFTUS
watch?v=tMDH5mIttbo
Gasp! FRISCO!
Plz let me know about the month and year of shooting this video so than I may understand the weather conditions. Most probably your video has been shot in summer but which month?
If memory serves, October November, maybe even early December.
@ 0:20, that's a trolley. Also known as a trolley coach, or trackless trolley. In San Francisco, they're known as trolleys, as opposed to streetcars, which run on rails, and cable cars, which do no use electricity.
Gee I wish L.A. would have kept their red cars. They look just like the ones in this video. Traffic wouldn't be that bad and we would have clean air . Now the city and county want to bring them back in a whole different way. I hope they do . I am tired of the bus system out here . Being behind the wheel is the same as taking the bus nothing but traffic out here.
As a local of LA it could extend the Light Rail system and the whole transportation system since San Francisco not only has Muni Metro but also The streetcars
The green streetcar reminds me of the one used in the movie Dirty Harry. "Take the K car..."
Did you know there is a website dedicated to the filming locations of Dirty Harry? It's very detailed and informative. I found it and checked it out in the hotel room during my visit in 2012.....fun!
K cars are terrible.
@@MilwaukeeF40C : And just what's wrong with the Ingleside line? Do you even take it? Do you even live in the City? It ties my neighborhood with downtown.
Ojalá y nuestro super presidente Andrés Manuel López obrador padre de la honestidad y la justicia humana nuestro super man mexicano rescate los trenes tranvías, es el transporte del futuro 🙋♀️🙋♂️🇲🇽🙋♂️🙋♀️🧐🙋♀️🙋♂️🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽
what angers me is they only run on Market St what I love most about the SF system is the Twin peeks tunnel and the Jllines deep narrow Cut in the Park I forget t he name of it
You mean the J Church line? This line runs through Dolores Park.
We don't even have trolleys
I was at Powell and Market waiting to board a cable car once, and saw some idiot riding his bicycle right down the middle of Market Street! BETWEEN the streetcar tracks! He should be lucky the PCC streetcars weren't running that day. Suppose he had wound up between two of them?
He was high on his own farts. Happens all the time in San Francisco.
What is Southern Pacific company ?
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Isn't that in Australia?
Isn't California the North West pacific ?
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anyone?
It was one of the major railroads in the US. it operated in the western states. It merged into the Union Pacific several years ago.
0:19 Škoda 14Tr
I think I live in the only other city outside of a lot of European cities it keep it's tram. Melbourne.
those are trams.
Company normality
its awesome ,in méxico no
Todos los tranvias de Estados Unidos.
Light rail is good but modern LRVs suck, especially those slow, ugly, and uncomfortable low-floor LRVs. Bring back the PCCs!
Modern streetcar lines do suck and aren't worth the extra expense over buses.