Muni heritage weekend

2026-09-20

I went to San Francisco for Muni Heritage Weekend 2026! I stood by the tracks for three hours with my line scan camera, scanning trams.

Tram pics are freely licensed under CC-By-SA 4.0 (I’ve also uploaded a bunch to Wikimedia Commons).

1 No. 1: Muni Streetcar 1 (1912)

Muni No. 1 is the first publicly owned big city streetcar in the US. Before then, all streetcars were privately owned. It’s pretty cool!

2 No. 162: Muni (1914-1950s)

Muni No. 162 started out from 1914 and served until 1958. It’s making its first Muni Heritage Weekend appearance since a 2014 collision. Sorry, there was a car in the background and someone bumped my camera, causing some vibrations.

3 No. 233: Blackpool Boat Tram (1934)

The Blackpool boat tram is known for looking like a boat with its open top design.

4 No. 496: Melbourne Tram (1928)

The Melbourne tram comes from Melbourne, Australia. Like No. 162, it is green.

5 No. 578: Dinky (1896)

Muni No. 578 is probably the oldest one. It looks like a cable car but it is electrically powered rather than being powered by a cable.

Note that up until 1909, Divisadero Street used to be called Devisadero Street, so it’s a period-correct spelling, not a typo.

6 No. 1815: Milan Peter Witt (1928)

The Milan tram was designed by Peter Witts so that it has more doors for rapid boarding.

I didn’t get a good line scan photo of this despite three attempts, which failed due to: out of focus, occluded by car, slightly out of focus and has a weird shadow on it. However, I did get a great pic with Pier 1 in the background.

Line scan photo but with a weird shadow and out of focus

7 Other PCC streetcars

8 Random vehicles

9 Behind the scenes

FIGURE 15 Scanning the Muni No. 1 (earlier attempt, later I lined up the camera with a blue light pole for cooler background and less likelihood of annoying cars behind.)

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Here are two pics of me taken by my friend Daniel Du. Our names are coincidentally similar but there is no relation lol.

Me with the line scan camera. Hopefully nobody trips on it. Photo credit: Daniel Du

Totally not looking sus lmao. Photo credit: Daniel Du