BART's Opening Day Cars: 1972 - 2022
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2024
- The cars of BART's Opening Day, on September 11th, 1972, are still in service almost 50 years later. This narrated video explores the cars and their story.
UPDATED and CORRECTED consist log of all cars in service on Day One available here: bartcars.weebl...
"BART Opens Today' (1972), KPIX-5 video, via SFSU Diva. diva.sfsu.edu/...
WRM Rapid Transit History Center: www.wrm.org/fu...
More on the legacy fleet: bartcars.weebl...
Nonprofit educational and research video, fair use for KPIX video.
I was a BART engineer on that day and reminder it well. All of my files were donated to the Western Ry Museum, In that collection were a set of operation reports that listed. Car numbers for each day, Thanks for your great video. Bob Townley
Hi Bob - Amazing to hear from you! I've been reading through your work at WRM. If you'd have chance, please let me know where to find it - I was recently going through the Fremont Flyer and appreciate all the detail you've kept on it and the rest of BART’s early history.
Thanks man, this is awesome! Love all your unique BART videos and info - it’s really hard to find stuff online especially compared to systems like the CTA, MTA, etc.
Thanks, I really appreciate it. I’ve been very fortunate to have started getting into transit with BART, right before the old cars started to go to the scrapper. It’s a troubled system in many different ways, but it was designed to be something different, a representation of a whole new era of public transit. Underneath the grime and dust there is a nice system.
Yep
My 1st grade class took a field trip on BART when it opened in Fall of '72. The doors kept opening while it was at top speed heading south to Fremont. "Just stay in your seats children. Stay away from the doors." Ahhh the '70s.
I was 8 years old when Bart first started running
When I was at the Muni heritage day event I spoke with someone who worked at the western railway museum and he told me that it’s confirmed that they got some Bart cars.
Yes, we are working with BART to get cars, and they are very supportive of the effort, but there are no full BART cars on WRM property at the moment. In time, yes, there will be some BART cars at WRM.
THis is great!
I subscribed because of this video ❤
I stood a few feet away from San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto on September 11, 1972 when he cut the ribbon at the BART ceremony. I filmed color movies of and rode the first train. Afterwards, I filmed the first day train operation and crowds. At the ceremony, it was announced that BART was the first automated rapid transit system. I blurted out loud enough to be heard, "What about PATCO". PATCO runs from Philadelphia to the Southern New Jersey suburbs and was automated. I was the first passenger on PATCO, which opened shortly before BART. I sat in the first seat on the first PATCO train. The officials at the BART ceremony were highly embarrassed and exclaimed "shhhh" in unison !! They didn't expect anybody from Southern New Jersey to be standing there.
PATCO is an excellent system, first with systemwide Automatic Fare Collection and first with systemwide ATO. Ride it every time I'm in Philly and it's certainly similar to BART in several ways. I'd say a PATCO car needs to go into a museum, but they've rebuilt all but one of them, so almost all of the original PATCO Is made it past 50 years of service (and probably will reach 70). A small system, but a system that knows how to run trains.
I wonder why they made the decision to use a wider than standard gauge track when they designed the BART system.
I miss them.
Were the windows tinted during BART's opening? they seem darker to me, in the video.
Yep, car side windows were always tinted
hey I've been to the western railway museum
Wait is this a voice reveal?
You could indeed say that. Maybe even a face reveal later
eli palmer was my step father he was the driver.
I own one of the original Rohr BART number plates, for whatever that's worth.
Would you mind sharing the car number? Very curious.
@@ATPTransit Car number 1648. I made a blog post but you'll have to Google it because TH-cam comments don't allow links.
@@MrEricSir Nice frame, very fitting. For a second I thought you meant an original (pre-rebuild) number plate, which would be numbered 101-276/501-837, removed decades ago during the rebuilding. The A2/B2 ones are still cool - I have a few but not yet framed. I can send you a couple pics of the car if you'd like - send an email through the Bartchives.
@@ATPTransit I'm totally curious, the official BART info that came with the plate doesn't mention a previous number. How can I send you an email through the Bartchives?
why september 11?? guess they never new it was gonna happpen
wow, ppl were liek WOW! now we're like
I hope I get out alive