Help save a three-car BART train at the Western Railway Museum

The Western Railway Museum has the opportunity to preserve a three-car BART train! We are going to be the only museum that will save these iconic Bay Area transit vehicles, and need your help! With your donations, we can transport these cars to the museum where they can help better educate our visitors on the history of how BART shaped the Bay Area we all live in today.
This video goes into detail on the three cars that have been selected to be preserved at the Museum. 1164, 1834, and 329 are scheduled to arrive at the museum in summer 2024. Your donations will help secure these three cars a future at the Western Railway Museum.
You can donate online at:
www.wrm.org/support/donate

[@TexasRailfan21-RailfanRyan]

Great video I hope good progress has been made to save these three legacy cars from Bart

[@eottoe2001]

I hate to say this but Nixon was more of a lefty compared to current Republicans and conservative Democrats. He was pro-transit and pro-passenger rail (though Amtrak could have been more comprehensive). He saw BART and got $38M for the project that benefited Rohr who probably was a contributor to Nixon and the Bay Area; still, BART got cars. In today's dollars that was about a third of a billion dollars. After Nixon, we get austerity presidents like Carter, Reagan, and Clinton. If Bernie or the Squad had been Democrats in 1968, no one would have considered them that left. That Overton window sure did shift. I probably rode on those cars back in the day. Good luck with your project. TY for the video. Bless BART and the people of SF. Sorry for the rant.

[@josephpadula2283]

Look up Republican John Volpe,
Nixon sec of Transportation

[@josephpadula2283]

Paul started the
The New Electric Railway Journal
In 1988.
The magazine's publisher was Paul M. Weyrich, a noted American conservative and FCF's founder and president. Weyrich was a longtime advocate of light rail transit and streetcars.[9] As TNERJ publisher, he penned an opinion column for every issue, and he acknowledged that it was unusual for an American political conservative to support government investment in mass transit,[10][11] but in the magazine he explained why he believed support for urban transit, and particularly rail transit, made sense and did not run counter to what he considered a "proper definition of conservatism."[10] In the magazine's premiere issue, Weyrich wrote that he was "committed to rail transit" and that "rail transit - all but abandoned in the 1950s as yesteryear's mode of transportation - is back in a major way all across the nation."[12] He also made it clear that, while the magazine's commentary sections would generally be advocating investment in rail transit, he and the editors would not hesitate to criticize existing or proposed rail-transit systems when they believed criticism was deserved.[12][13]

[@eottoe2001]

@@josephpadula2283 That's so bizarre. Had a friend who worked with Weyrich. My friend was VERY conservative and hated transit. They went on to bring religious group under the Republican banner through the right-to-life stuff. James Rhodes who was the governor of Ohio and Republican tried get high speed rail between Cleveland and Cincinnati but that went down. That was cool. If we could just get the Koch family to like rail. LOL

[@user-up3be9fi1e]

Great video Ryan!

[@graphtonix6607]

What happened to A BART cab car unit 1234???

[@AltDavidMiscavige]

To accurately portray BART, I hope you’re leaving used syringes in the cars.