[PRCo] Re: Fwd: Rail Mail EXtra - The "Roar of the Four"

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, Fred Schneider wrote:


>
> The car right shows San Francisco looking northeast on Market
> Street ... automobiles suggest the 1930w.   Municipal Railway had the
> outer two tracks.   Market Street Railway used the inner two.   I'm
> not a  100% certain but I suspect that's a B or a C car turning off
> onto Geary Street.   The cross street should be 3rd to the right and
> Kearny to the left.    Muni took over Market Street Railway in
> 1944.   It was politically correct at the time to abandon most of
> their routes, saving on a small portion of one line in the
> southwestern part of the city which is still in service today.
> Otherwise what runs today are all Muni lines.   The exception, of
> course, are the cables.  They were all pre 1906 and Muni is 1912.
> Am I correct Jim?

Jim doesn't love us anymore. He went on vacation and aside from having Ed 
forward a political comment he's been silent.

(Actually, I hope all is well, I am mostly being silly)