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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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PCC-San Francisco

Today’s post was a random draw. I reached into my ‘scan selection’ and pulled out this slide.

Exposed in San Francisco on September 6, 2009, this is a morning view of the front of a PCC streetcar assigned to the Muni F-Line.

I made this using one of my EOS-3 cameras loaded with Fujichrome.

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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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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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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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Geneva Street Car House—SF MUNI.

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I liked the old Boeing-Vertol LRVs. (Light Rail Vehicles).

The shape of the cars lent well to photography.

The San Francisco cars reminded me a the old orange creamsicle frozen treats.

Back in December 1990, I made this view of a Boeing car leaving the Geneva Street car house for a run on the M-Ocean line. I was working with my old Nikkor f4.0 200mm lens on my F3T loaded with Kodachrome 25.

I made great use of that lens, but sold it in 1996 when I bought my 80-200mm zoom. In retrospect, I made better photos with the fixed 200mm.

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