National Register #86000207
Beltline Railroad Roundhouse
1500 Sansome at The Embarcadero
Built 1918
The Roundhouse stands across the Embarcadero from Pier 29. The trains no longer run along the Embarcadero, but the historic
streetcars of the F-line run along the Embarcadero from Aquatic Park to the Ferry Building and then up
Market Street to The Castro.
The streetcar seen in the photograph, 1052, is one of seventeen PCC's operating on the F-line.
This streamlined 1935 design by the Presidents’ Conference Committee of United States Electric Railway Leaders resulted in the most successful
streetcar ever built. 4,500 PCC's once ran in thirty-three cities, including San Francisco.
Each streetcar is painted in the livery of one of these cities. Streetcar 1052, built in 1948, operated in Philadelphia from 1948
to 1989. The San Francisco Municipal Railway acquired it in 1992 and painted it to commemorate of the Los Angeles Railway Co (LARy) which
operated PCC's from 1937 to 1963.
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