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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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Fog, Glint and a Detoured Boeing

Sometimes a photo captures a moment in time.

This image does it for me.

In August 1991, I lived on Haight Street in San Francisco. For a few days that month, the SF Muni was performing work on the Muni Metro subway beneath Market Street between Castro and Church Streets. As a result, cars that would normally use the subway were detoured via 17th and Church Streets and rejoined the subway at Duboce.

I made this view one evening as Pacific fog climbed the hills to the west. Evening sun, tinted by the fog, glinted off a detouring Boeing-Vertol LRV as it navigated the trackage on 17th Street. In the distance, another set of Boeing cars can be seen entering the subway from rarely used portals at Castro and Market.

I exposed this Kodachrome 25 slide using my Nikon F3T and f1.8 105mm  Nikkor lens. It is one of hundreds of photographs I made of the San Francisco Muni in the 1990s.

Sometimes I dream of the fog coming over the hills, changing the quality of light as it envelopes the city.

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Blur Beneath the Bay Bridge

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On September 16, 2009, I exposed this Fujifchrome slide using a Canon EOS-3 mounted on a tripod. I used a long shutter speed for motion blur.

A San Francisco Muni Breda Light rail car was rolling along the Embarcedero beneath the famous San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, which once carried tracks as well as the highway.

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