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Re: San Francisco PCCs

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From: mulders_notpairnoid_nuff
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 00:00
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Silas Warner wrote:
> 
> Robert Gordon wrote:
> >
> > A track map in the "Inside Muni" book shows wyes also at 30th & Judah
> > on the N, 35th & Taraval on the L and Broad & Plymouth on the M
> > (as of April 1981).  These may still be there to wye a PCC out on those
> > lines on fantrips, for instance.
> >
> THose wyes are still there.  The Market Street Railway historic
> preservation group used them when it was running the Trolley Festival
> cars on Market Street (which developed into the F-line.) The wye at
> Broad and Plymouth was the original M-line turnaround.  The wye at
> Church and 30th (the original J-line turnaround) is also still there.
> 
> These wyes are never used in service.  There are some short turns on
> the N and J lines, but the short-turn LRVs simply switch at crossovers
> and change ends.
> 
>                                                 Silas Warner

If anybody cares, there's an almost-wye out near the end of the
L-Taravel at 46th.

Yeah, yeah, I know, at that point the PCC (if one ever did stray out
there) might as well go on to the Wawona loop.  Nonetheless, a wye does
exist at 46th & Taravel.
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