Muni! It's a MUNI car from SanFrancisco. The squiggly logo on the side spells MUNI. They started use in the early 70's when the underground was installed (if I'm not mistaken). I just looked, they've got new fleet in S.F. yah! I haven't lived there in 20 years now.
Fascinating array of motive power at the Western Ry. Museum! Even a track-inspection railcar with a Detroit two-stroke - I recognized it by the particularly raucous tone on or around 2500 r.p.m., the design speed limit of some of the medium-small sixes such as the 6L53 and 6L71 - was towing one of the coaches. Not to mention pushing a second. :-D
The car with all the yellow strips on the front and sides what kind of car is it and who originally owned it? I looks like and old CTA car or an older NYC car but its not. Awesome video!!
spfilms4449 Actually I was referring to the green car with the diamond pantograph car 561 @ 3:18. I am very familiar with the boing LRV's and I have a model of one but I don't know anything about that car. That's the one that looks like an older CTA car or an older car from NYC. I was looking at the coupler, trucks and underbody details and they are strikingly similar to those agency's older cars with truss rods under them.
EMDSD14R It's an old NYC elevated car - Used to run on the Manhattan ELs(IRT) and was sold during wartime to the Sacramento Northern for a shipyard service.
My wife and I were there on a bit of buisness. We had in our posession pictures that my great grandfather had of the key system when they were taking up the tracks on the bay bridge and back as far as 1915 as he was a very young motorman at that time and he worked there untill the end. Needless to say but they loved looking at those pictures and reading his personal logs
Sacramento Northern 652 is missing two out of four traction motors, air reservoirs, and a number of other parts. There are a couple of people who work on the locomotive every so often to try and prep it for operation someday, but they fail to realize that without the missing parts, it will not work properly, if at all. It will be some time before 652 operates again, and if it does it will do so only rarely because its wheel flanges are worn very thin and as a result cannot be re-profiled on a lathe.
Muni! It's a MUNI car from SanFrancisco. The squiggly logo on the side spells MUNI. They started use in the early 70's when the underground was installed (if I'm not mistaken). I just looked, they've got new fleet in S.F. yah! I haven't lived there in 20 years now.
Fascinating array of motive power at the Western Ry. Museum! Even a track-inspection railcar with a Detroit two-stroke - I recognized it by the particularly raucous tone on or around 2500 r.p.m., the design speed limit of some of the medium-small sixes such as the 6L53 and 6L71 - was towing one of the coaches. Not to mention pushing a second. :-D
Any more information on Muni #305? That is an interesting little machine.
Find it funny I am in this a few times
:P
The car with all the yellow strips on the front and sides what kind of car is it and who originally owned it? I looks like and old CTA car or an older NYC car but its not. Awesome video!!
It is a Boeing LRV from San Francisco Muni. Boston also ran these cars.
spfilms4449 Actually I was referring to the green car with the diamond pantograph car 561 @ 3:18. I am very familiar with the boing LRV's and I have a model of one but I don't know anything about that car. That's the one that looks like an older CTA car or an older car from NYC. I was looking at the coupler, trucks and underbody details and they are strikingly similar to those agency's older cars with truss rods under them.
EMDSD14R It's an old NYC elevated car - Used to run on the Manhattan ELs(IRT) and was sold during wartime to the Sacramento Northern for a shipyard service.
jcutietta Key System not Sacramento Northern
spfilms4449 Thank you, my bad. That's what commenting when tired gets me
My wife and I were there 7 years ago
Well that means you due for another visit! A lot has changed since then.
My wife and I were there on a bit of buisness. We had in our posession pictures that my great grandfather had of the key system when they were taking up the tracks on the bay bridge and back as far as 1915 as he was a very young motorman at that time and he worked there untill the end. Needless to say but they loved looking at those pictures and reading his personal logs
does sn 652 still work?
Sacramento Northern 652 is missing two out of four traction motors, air reservoirs, and a number of other parts. There are a couple of people who work on the locomotive every so often to try and prep it for operation someday, but they fail to realize that without the missing parts, it will not work properly, if at all. It will be some time before 652 operates again, and if it does it will do so only rarely because its wheel flanges are worn very thin and as a result cannot be re-profiled on a lathe.