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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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Cal Train at King.

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In October 2003, I made this view of Cal-Train F40PH 914 leading train 74 at 7th and King Street in San Francisco.

You can easily tell this is train 74, because Cal Train put numerical train ID’s on the locomotives displayed near the cab windows. It was among the peculiarities of this intensely operated former Southern Pacific suburban operation.

This image nicely illustrates the difference between a train number which delineates a service and a locomotive number that identifies a piece of equipment. Just in case you were confused.

Exposed on Fujichrome film with a Nikon N90S.

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