{"id":40050,"date":"2021-06-19T14:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=40050"},"modified":"2021-06-18T19:11:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T18:11:33","slug":"around-the-world-in-trams-san-francisco-1053","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=40050","title":{"rendered":"Around the World in Trams: San Francisco 1053"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We return to September 2006 for another couple of images of some of the Muni PCCs in action on F-line streetcar service.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In this edition we feature no. <strong>1053<\/strong> which was acquired by Muni in 1992 from the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA). It had been built in 1947 as no. <strong>2721<\/strong> for the Philadelphia Transportation Company and after its career in Pennsylvania was over it found a new lease of life on the west coast of the USA in San Francisco. After restoration it received a tribute livery for Brooklyn, New York.<\/p>\n<p>In this first view we see <strong>1053<\/strong> when not in service. It is joined by another unidentified PCC on 20<sup>th<\/sup> September 2006.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=40051\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40051\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-40051\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1.1053-jm-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1.1053-jm-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1.1053-jm-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1.1053-jm-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1.1053-jm.jpg 1293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then just 24 hours later and <strong>1053<\/strong> is back in service on the F-line with a working to Fisherman\u2019s Wharf as it passes the Wharf Coffee Shop.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_40052\" style=\"width: 376px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=40052\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40052\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40052\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40052\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2.1053-jm-366x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"366\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2.1053-jm-366x550.jpg 366w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2.1053-jm-681x1024.jpg 681w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2.1053-jm-768x1155.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2.1053-jm.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-40052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Both Photographs by John Myring<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We return to September 2006 for another couple of images of some of the Muni PCCs in action on F-line streetcar service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40053,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40050\/revisions\/40053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}