[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?
This is what rush hour looks like on San Francisco’s famous Embarcadero waterfront road.
These electric trolleys operated by MUNI are from all over the world.
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San Francisco’s MUNI has it’s very own Pacific Electric Railway Red Car, #1061. The Red Car system of Los Angeles County died out, as detailed in the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit, so the Market Street Railway decided to re-use the red-and-orange paint scheme as an homage.
This particular PCC railcar was never in L.A. It spent most of its life in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The real El Lay vehicles were double ended – this one has a front and a rear.
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No matter, people love it anyway. Look for it on Market Street’s F-Line.
