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Breda Car Taking the Corner at 4th & King

On a morning in May 2008, I made this photo of a San Francisco Muni Breda-built light rail car taking the corner at 4th & King Streets near the Cal-Train station.

This area had only been recently redeveloped. Muni’s T-Line streetcar route to Bayshore was only a few months in service.

At the time, I found the scene fascinating and the location unrecognizable.

Since that time there have been a multitude of other changes in this area. This has included the construction and opening of the Central Subway route (that offers a continuation of the route on 4th Street) and electrification of Cal-Train’s former Southern Pacific Peninsula Line to San Jose. I can only image what this area offers now for the transit photographer!

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J-Church

On a bright morning in June 2008, I made this view of a San Francisco MUNI Breda lightrail car working the J-Church route in-bound on its namesake street.

At the time, I was researching my book Railroads of California for Voyageur Press.

In recent days, I’ve been going through dozens of rolls of Fujichrome slides that I’d exposed during my Spring 2008 visit to California to organize and catalog them. This includes a variety of photo of San Francisco MUNI, including the light rail and cable cars.

Fujichrome slide exposed using a Canon EOS-3 with 24mm Canon lens.

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