Calendar: San Francisco railcar 1062 at Church & 18th (2023)
Stop: Church & 18th.
Archive: Henrik Boye.
Photographer: Ian Martin.
Publisher: San Francisco Railway Museum.
Date: April 2023.
City: San Francisco (United States).
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San Francisco railcar 1062 (ex Philadelphia railcar 2101), manufacturer Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company, type PCC.
Description
PCC Streetcar 1062, in Pittsburgh tribute livery, in Dolores Park l Ian Martin photo
April 2023
Muni's PCC streetcar flett includes cars that originally ran in either San Francisco, Minneapolis-St. Paul (and then Newark NJ), or Philadelphia. Most of PCCs are colorfully painted in accurately repliveries of most of the 33 North American cities that once ran these iconis streetcars. Of these PCC cities, nome had as many challenging hills as Pittsburgh, so it's fitting to show Car 1062 on the Steepest streetcar hill in San Francisco today (about a 9% grade).
The all-time steepest San Francisco electric streecar grade was this one (17%), on Potrero Hill's 24th Street. Here in 1903, a single-truck "Dinky" identical to preserved Car 578 tiptoes down, with only a hand brake brake to stop it. The steepest currest current cabble car grade is on Hyde Street, 21%
John Henry Mentz photo, SFMTA Archive
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