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  1. Commute Time In San Francisco - SP Style

    Commute Time In San Francisco - SP Style

    SP Train #148 departs Downtown San Francisco with a solid string of vintage Harriman coaches at the 7th Street Curve bound for San Jose in 1981.
  2. Quint St. Bridge

    Quint St. Bridge

    Caltrain's 3:00 PM departure from San Francisco speeds across the Quint St. bridge in the Bayview District. Though the SP is gone from San Francisco, several of its bridges remain lettered for the railroad.
  3. Shine your shoes?

    Shine your shoes?

    SP 2472 is primped and coifed and ready for an excursion down the peninsula from San Francisco to Redwood City and back on December 29, 2002.
  4. In your...hood?

    In your...hood?

    Do end-cab switchers have a "face," per se? The hood end is invariably the front, but that makes for a face that would make Jimmy Durante envious. San Francisco Belt Alco S-2's #49 (ex-23) and 25 had long been fixtures at San Francisco's Golden Gate Railroad Museum, but the units...
  5. Excuuuse me!!!!

    Excuuuse me!!!!

    The South City Switcher is attempting to do some work on Carroll St. in South San Francisco, and getting no cooperation from its rubber tired counterpart, making a delivery to a warehouse.
  6. Cable Car

    Cable Car

    A vinatge Cable car in San Francisco in September 2003.
  7. Milan Italy car on SF Muni

    Milan Italy car on SF Muni

    A former Milan, Italy car is used on the SF Muni's F line. Shot taken in September 2003.
  8. SF Muni #1050

    SF Muni #1050

    San Francisco Muni uses PCC and other vintage cars on their F line along Fisherman's Wharf. Here is #1050 in September 2003.
  9. Carquinez Ferry

    Carquinez Ferry

    An SP ferry long out of service laid up near the Carquinez Straits. Seen from the lounge car of the Amtrak Spirit of California in 1983
  10. Rollin' by the dock of the bay

    Rollin' by the dock of the bay

    Amtrak's Coast Starlight rounds the San Francisco Bay south of Martinez, Calif., July 13, 2003.
  11. Rounding the San Francisco Bay on the Coast Starlight

    Rounding the San Francisco Bay on the Coast Starlight

    Amtrak's Coast Starlight rounds the San Francisco Bay south of Martinez, Calif., July 13, 2003. Shot from the end of the train.


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