Hap Dougherty I was born in San Mateo in 1932 and remember San Mateo Trolly as it ran in front of the Dougherty house on Ellsworth street . In those days fancy shopping was done in SF at The Emporiam, Roos Bros.or The City of Paris. It was such a great means of travel and once you arrived in SF there were numrus other trollies to othere parts of town. I remember MIlls Field now SFO when there was one control tower with a wing on either side,now look at it. Thanks so for taking me back down memory lane.
I have to admit San Francisco has the most interesting streetcar lines in America. Beats my old hometown of NYC. No other place do I know had a dual trolley cable car for service on cable and trolley lines.
I am old enough to remember seeing cars get hung up on those #40 rail tracks that went down El Camino Real - I also remember watching an old steam engine going across the old Ocean Shore Rail tracks San Jose Avenue before they removed those tracks.
I was born in 1950. I remember the tracks on third ave near the SP line. The film shows the Daylight train. I was hit by it at 5th ave San Mateo while on my bike in April of 1961
As a Native born in 1956 I say Thank You. When I was born in Presidio that the 38 line was a streetcar route, and what we BART was the the Key System, wish we had a Time Machine....
The section on the video that concentrates on the 40 line is very nice. For more information you could look up the book San Francisco's Interurban To San Mateo by Walt Vielbaum, Robert Townley, Walter Rice, Emiliano Echeverria and Don Holmgren published by Arcadia Publishing in 2005.
The 40 line ended on Jan. 12, 1949. Service ended because the Municipal Railway, which merged with the Market St. Ry. in 1944, did not want to continue operating in San Mateo County. and San Mateo County had no interest in public transit. After Sept. 1944, all four tracks belonged to the Municipal Railway.
Hap Dougherty I was born in San Mateo in 1932 and remember San Mateo Trolly as it ran in front of the Dougherty house on Ellsworth street . In those days fancy shopping was done in SF at The Emporiam, Roos Bros.or The City of Paris. It was such a great means of travel and once you arrived in SF there were numrus other trollies to othere parts of town. I remember MIlls Field now SFO when there was one control tower with a wing on either side,now look at it. Thanks so for taking me back down memory lane.
I have to admit San Francisco has the most interesting streetcar lines in America. Beats my old hometown of NYC. No other place do I know had a dual trolley cable car for service on cable and trolley lines.
I lived in that area where those Caltrains where filmed.
I am old enough to remember seeing cars get hung up on those #40 rail tracks that went down El Camino Real - I also remember watching an old steam engine going across the old Ocean Shore Rail tracks San Jose Avenue before they removed those tracks.
Beautiful great Muni/MSR services unlike today.
I was born in 1950. I remember the tracks on third ave near the SP line. The film shows the Daylight train. I was hit by it at 5th ave San Mateo while on my bike in April of 1961
Fun! No fences so there was easier crossing, back when people were trusted to look both ways.
Superb! Thank you for sharing.
As a Native born in 1956 I say Thank You. When I was born in Presidio that the 38 line was a streetcar route, and what we BART was the the Key System, wish we had a Time Machine....
The section on the video that concentrates on the 40 line is very nice. For more information you could look up the book San Francisco's Interurban To San Mateo by Walt Vielbaum, Robert Townley, Walter Rice, Emiliano Echeverria and Don Holmgren published by Arcadia Publishing in 2005.
I love this video.
The 40 line ended on Jan. 12, 1949. Service ended because the Municipal Railway, which merged with the Market St. Ry. in 1944, did not want to continue operating in San Mateo County. and San Mateo County had no interest in public transit. After Sept. 1944, all four tracks belonged to the Municipal Railway.
Who littered the streets? New Yorkers visiting there? C'MON MAN!