This was a special open day.įear of losing that precious parking space wins out, however, so Saturday finds me at the Duboce Street restoration yard of the Market Street Railway The Duboce Street restoration yard of the Market Street Railway is located just a block from my daughter's apartment. Market Street Railway folks hope to make this part of a Muni museum eventually, once seismic upgrades are completed. There's a storage yard behind, which includes some old PCCs awaiting restoration, and across the street from that is a brick building built in 1887 for the San Francisco & San Mateo Railway. The Muni system shops are located here, in a modern facility. The day isn't over yet, so I walk two blocks to the J Church light rail line and ride it to the end. It takes over an hour to find a place to park, constantly circling a several block area. A true city person, she drives us the remaining torturous (for my wife) miles across the Bay Bridge and into San Francisco.
No damage done though, and we continue to Richmond, where we meet our daughter at theīART station. Along the way, we run over an extension ladder that fell off a truck, and this doesn't help. I-80 west is crowded and does nothing to calm my wife's dread of busy traffic. The storage yard of the San Francisco Municipal Railway is located at the end of the J Church line it contains historic trolleys awaiting restoration as well as modern LRVs.
