⁴ᴷ⁶⁰ Riding San Francisco's Last Remaining LRV3 Streetcars
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2024
- The San Francisco Muni Metro system is in the process of obtaining a brand-new fleet of LRV4 cars from Siemens. In response, the 20+ year old LRV3 fleet, built by Breda, is being progressively retired. These cars are almost completed retired from Muni service, with only a few sets still running when needed. Here is a video that provides a last look at these iconic San Francisco railcars! Enjoy!
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Taken in April 2024.
These are my childhood trains. I’ve been riding them for almost every occasion now and I will miss them like I’ll miss a good friend, now this 21 yr old feels ancient lol
I moved to SF in Feb 1996 and boy, what a huge upgrade these were over the older rolling stock. Thanks for sharing!
I'm from the Bay Area. It's indeed slightly harder to catch the Breda LRV3 trains now. Currently the best chances to catch it is on the J Church. You can also catch them on the K,M,N, and S trains but usually only 1-2 trains a day per line.
I ride the M line the most
Does anyone still make hard plastic seats like these? They were a staple on every transit vehicle from the 1970's to the early 1990's in many of the transit agencies in many large U.S. cities. Here in Philly on SEPTA, they are still present on the 1982 Kawasaki BIV cars on the Broad Street Line (orange, like these, but with a peach trim), and on the 1980-81 Kawasaki single-ended K-Car trolleys on the Subway-Surface trolley lines (blue, with peach trim).
These kinds of crappy plastic seats are extremely common on Asian metro systems. Thankfully most of the stuff being built in the US now is at least a little padded but even if it's plastic at least it's not made as slippery.
I operate these vehicles (25 year employee). I will miss the Breda tremendously! The Siemens train is like being in a fluorescent light fixture all day.
It’s hard to start and even harder to stop. It has enormous blind spots for the operator and is very uncomfortable. Muni took a huge step backwards with this LRV.
As always, the people who made the decision of the LRV 4 don’t have to be in it for 10 hours a day.
I'm gonna miss these older streetcars.
The muni breda lrv3 is my favorite childhood light rail vehicles
I moved to SF just as they were being deployed in 1998/9, replacing the Boeing cars.
They were supposed to last 40 years, but they were too heavy and caused so much street and building foundation damage that they only lasted half their anticipated lifespan, effectively doubling their cost to the taxpayers.
The new Siemens cars are wonderful and fast.
I left SF just as they were being introduced in 2015/6.
AnsaldoBreda products that were too heavy? I am shocked! Shocked!
7:26 WTH is that SR chime 😂😂
I feel like these should go on the F heritage streetcar line
Just like the Boeings should have...
I like the sound of the motors of the LR3s better than the LRV4s.
Sadly these trains are not in the T third st line anymore ;(
cool video on the muni and haveing a new rolling stock of siemens lrv4
I've only ridden the Boeing built LRVs. And that was in 1988.
Great farewell video💚👌
i still ride them back home from school with the M
Nice.
I’m so glad I got plenty of video of these. I have a nice long video on my channel of the old cars. Too bad I never got to see them run on the new T subway section. One thing I love about these old cars is the steel strap hangers.
These things are pretty atrocious. They're only about 1/4th as reliable as the new trains. They're also so heavy that they actually damage the tracks. That's probably why Muni doesn't run then on their brand new subway line. They're used to dealing with the Bread-induced issues in the Market street subway but no one wants the same issues in the new Central Subway.
Hi I have a question how many old muni train are left and how will I no when the last old train running for muni
Those street cars look nice
Are all the LRV2’s (not the 3’s) retired?
If you mean the old Orange cars ( as seen in the movie "48 hours" ), yes. They've been gone for years.
LRV2's all retired. LRV3 some are still in service.
the thing i've always found the most bonkers about these trains is that they're designed by pininfarina... for some reason. i wonder if they did any other work on public transportation vehicles.
I think they worked with Breda/AnsaldoBreda on many rail vehicles?
@@erik_griswold i've never seen the pininfarina badge on any other public transportation vehicle in my life but you may be right - i'd be curious to find out for sure. i know syd mead was actually involved in the design of the BART trains (well, the original ones that are all now out of commission) as well - i feel like this is more noticeable visually than pininfarina's involvement with breda, though.
@@adesignersperspective Not sure about actual badging but if you look under the “Mass Transport” section in their Wikipedia page you’ll see a list of the vehicles they’ve designed:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pininfarina
3:30 is that a sunrise systems led display?
Are they shutting down the entire service or just charging the trams for newer ones?
Changing the trams for newer ones 😀
Are they still running their vintage street cars and trolleys? I wonder why they’re getting rid of these SRV3 units
Yes the PCCs are still running on the F line! It's more of a tourist line than an "actual" line, but the PCC cars are just so simple and easy to maintain that they can keep running them 70+ years later! Boston also has PCCs on a regular line and Newark NJ had them until 2000. The PCC cars are kinda like the streetcar equivalent to the Toyota Hilux.
@@rayofsunshine098 very cool
Thats good wut San Francisco train is that?
San Francisco MUNI Metro
Excellent 🙂👏
how many are left?
Are they going to keep a couple of them for use on the F Line?
I heard that they are to heavy to run the F line
Only 20 years? That's no good. SEPTA still runs their K-Cars from the early-1980's, and that was longer than they ran the PCC cars.