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Robert Gordon wrote:
> 
> The original poster was asking about a cutback on Market Street that
> would require front pole operation.  That wye is an emergency cutback
> at 11th and Market. I've seen it in use during the PCC era (cars
> carried a "X-11th Street" destination sign).


That 11th Street trackage was not only an emergency turnaround, but was
used to get pull out cars to the ends of the J and N lines. E.g.: the
operator would run from Geneva to 11th; turn back; go to to 30th &
Church; then begin the run to the East Bay Terminal early the morning.
Turn-in cars did the opposite late at night.

The little chunk of track on 11th Street was left over from the Muni's
Van Ness line.

Other regularly scheduled turnbacks in the PCC days were 30th & Judah
and 35th & Taraval. Both those wyes necessitated the front pole and
back-up controls behind the rear seat. (Of course, the former double end
torpedoes had comfortable back up controls.)