San Francisco Municipal Railway 1055




Facts and Figures


Current Number1055
Railway RepresentedSan Francisco Municipal Railway
BuilderSt. Louis Car Company
Built In1948
Builder's order id1666
Currently in (State)California
--(Locality)San Francisco
Totally out of svc daten/a
(Initial retirement date)
Car Typestreetcar
-subtypePCC, postwar
-designation
Statusoperated often
More infohttp://www.streetcar.org/mim/streetcars/fleet/pcc/1055/index.html
Gauge4'8.5"
Constructionsteel
Roof typeAR
EndedSE
Length46'5"
Width8'5"
Height10'3"
Weight38060
#Seats55
#Wheels/Conf.8
Total HP220
TrucksClark B2
BrakesElectric
Compressorn/a
ControlWH XD473B
MotorsWH 1432J (4)
Voltage (if not 600DC)
NotesPainted in Philadelphia Transportation Company livery; operated on F-Market Line

Car 1055 in operation in San Francisco in 2021
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photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevesloan/51375642277/

Car 1055 in operation in San Francisco in 2021
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photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/schaffner/51240235170/

Car History by Frank Hicks


San Francisco Municipal Railway 1055
One of a number of PCC streetcars still in active revenue service in the U.S. is this car, SFMR 1055. The acronym PCC refers to the Electric Railway Presidents Conference Committee, a group of street railway company representatives that in the early 1930's developed a design for a modern, standardized streetcar. The resulting PCC car was extremely successful and several thousand PCC's were built by two companies between 1936 and 1952. Philadelphia, the city for which 1055 was originally built, was one of the larger operators of PCC's and owned 570 at one time or another. This car was part of an order of 110 cars numbered 2091-2200 which made up Philadelphia's second and largest order for postwar PCC's. These cars were built as one-man cars and during their service lives saw service all over the steadily shrinking Philadelphia city system. Car 2122 was one of the earlier cars in SEPTA's General OverHaul program and was rebuilt in early 1981. In the early 1990's SEPTA bought new streetcars; the 2100's were retired and 2122 was chosen to be rebuilt for SFMR's F-Market Line heritage streetcar operation. It was rebuilt by Morrison-Knudsen and painted in its as-delivered PTC colors of green, cream and red. It went into service as SFMR 1055 on the F-Line on September 1, 1995 and is still in everyday revenue service over half a century after it was built.


Ownership History


OwnerCar NumFromToPreservation?Loan?
Philadelphia Transportation Company (Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)21221948 1968 NO NO
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)21221968 1994 NO NO
San Francisco Municipal Railway (California, San Francisco)10551994 present YES NO


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Car 1055 in operation in San Francisco in 2020
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video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekPbgr7cAxY