PCC STREETCAR LOVE STORY

[daveklepper]

Trolley fans should tune in on:

http://www.us.docker.com/fil05a/dockers/feature/d_feat_landing.jsp?bruUID=1127008669066

If you can find it, you'll like the one minute love story.

Apparently takes place on the Embarcadaro "F" line in San Francisco

[daveklepper]

Apparently I may have made an error in the posting of the email address. I'll try and find the correction if I can and get back. It really is worthwhile.

[daveklepper]

http://www.us.docker.com/fil05a/dockers/feature/d_feat_landing.jsp?bmUID=1127008669066

[daveklepper]

http://www.us.dockers.com/fil05a?dockers/feature/d_feat_landing.jsp?bmUID=1127008669066


There, I hope I finally got it fight.

[daveklepper]

Can also be accessed on just

www.us.dockers.com

then look for what's new.

[artpeterson]

I've seen at least two versions of this commercial of TV - one which spends more time alongside the PE car and the other on the PTC car.

[daveklepper]

Sorry about the errors in the first and second posting. I apologize

[BR60103]

I'm surprised they let them run in frontof the streetcars like that. I suppose we'll have a lot more kids run down for a while.

[daveklepper]

Nothing wrong with crossing in front of a bus or streetcar if you see the door is open and the passengers are still boarding!

[dknelson]

Don't forget that Kenosha Wisconsin has PCC cars you can ride for a mere 25 cents. It makes a large loop past the Metra/CNW depot, some municipal buildings, apartments and condos, and a very nice natural history museum.
I have not seen any love stories acted out while riding but it a very nice deal and the cars are beautifully restored.
Dave Nelson

[daveklepper]

I the young man and the young woman left their respective PCC's after everone else either boarded or left, I suppose they both told their respective motormen that they were trying to cross over to board the car in the other direction so their moves were safe:

"I wanna catch that car!"

This is a normal procedure for bus passengers in Jerusalem where often close connections are made from opposing platforms on the several private-right-of-way paved bus corridors: "Etrotzet HaSmolla:, litteraly "I'll hurry to the left."

I also finally remembered one more reason why I was so taken with this commercial. Especially since the Embarkadaro extension of the F Market Heritage line was opened after I moved to Jerusalem.

Shortly after the MUNI Metro subway opened for regular service, but not full service, I think on weekdays the L Tarravel was still running shuttle to the Twin Peaks Tunnel, and J Church was still PCC operated and using the surface tracks on Market, but the decision was already made to have a heritage part time operation to continue to use the surface tracks, all this can be corrected by someone more familiar, I ran the July Electric Railroaders' Convention in San Francisco. Maurey Kleibolt attended and took part in all our activities. Showed up early on a Sunday morning at the Cable Barn to board our special car for a morning cable car tour and found the car waiting was a Powell single-end car and not a California double end. I told the Barn Super we had specifically requesterd only a California car for the entire tour, and he responeded that we had to use a Powell car for the first part of the tour because the California car was too long for the turntable at Hyde and the Embarcadaro. I replied we were not going to use the turntable but instead reverse on the crossover just before turntable. He said that was impossible. I said that the Bay Area Electric Railfans Association had done just that a few months earlier. He said he would check, made a call, and came back and said we could have the California car. He then said that he was glad to have the Powell car for regular service that day, anyway, since the lines were usually long on Sundays at the Market terminal for boarding . I then said, "Have you ever considered a heritage streetcar line on the Embarcadaro to take the pressure off the cable cars?" He thought the management might possibly consider the idea.

I don't have any idea whether the implementation actually resulted from this conversation in any way whatsoever. The Market Street Railway Assocation has enough good thinkers about these things to develop such plans on their own without my help. But at least I did think of it. And the railfans did get their photos of the California car on Hyde.