Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Livery change on the Market Street line

Muni has been sending its "original" F-Market Line fleet of PCC cars - that is to say, the fleet of 14 cars acquired in 1995 from SEPTA that inaugurated heritage line service on Market Street - back to Brookville a couple at a time for rebuilding. They're receiving completely overhauled electrical and control systems along with some body work and new paint jobs. In some cases these paint jobs are more accurate than their original liveries (compare new 1059 with old 1059) and in some cases they're receiving entirely new color schemes.
Car 1062, which was formerly painted in Louisville Street Railway green, is a recent arrival back from Brookville and it falls into the latter category. It's now painted in traditional Pittsburgh Railways red-and-cream, a livery not previously seen among the F-Line fleet. More information is on the Market Street Railway Association blog at https://www.streetcar.org/pittsburgh-nevada-inbound/

You may note that the photos on the PNAERC site still reflect car 1062's old appearance. We're still working on the coding for photos and videos associated with listings on the new PNAERC site, so until that's done our images are frozen in time. As soon as this coding is in place we'll start going through the listings to fix links and update photos in cases like this.

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