Pacific Electric “Red Car” From Los Angeles is Back in the Road – Now, It’s MUNI’s F-Market Streetcar #1061

[UPDATE: Or from Pittsburg, PA, or someplace. See Comments.]

Your Market Street Railway has the deets on the December 13, 2011 return of Pacific Electric Railway #1061 to Market Street.

Friendly hippie, Red Car, Ferry Building:

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Look for Big Red Cars the next time you watch Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

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6 Responses to “Pacific Electric “Red Car” From Los Angeles is Back in the Road – Now, It’s MUNI’s F-Market Streetcar #1061”

  1. Dave D. says:
    December 23, 2011 at 8:18 am

    …Electric powered parrots….on wheels. They just draw the eye to ‘em.

  2. Allan says:
    December 24, 2011 at 10:25 am

    It’s a lovely paint job honoring the old Pacific Electric of Los Angeles fame, but sadly the actual car is not from LA, but I believe, Pitsburg.

  3. sfcitizen says:
    December 24, 2011 at 10:55 am

    So I guess it’s honoring the Pacific Electric? I saw that they looked different but I thought they could be from different eras.

    Thx!

  4. Hunter says:
    February 21, 2012 at 11:21 pm

    Any idea how long this car will stay out and about for??

  5. sfcitizen says:
    February 21, 2012 at 11:29 pm

    Forever, as far as I know.

  6. Hunter says:
    February 22, 2012 at 11:18 am

    Really!? I thought they rotated their vintage cars in and our of service..?

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