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"Bye, Bye, Breda" (MUNI)

 
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 14, 2026 4:46 pm    Post subject: "Bye, Bye, Breda" (MUNI) Reply with quote
Seems that MUNI is retiring the last of its30-year old BREDAli ght rail units......oh, woe is me, my heart is breaking.....(!!) Razz

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 14, 2026 4:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
News report...............

https://www.sfmta.com/blog/bye-bye-breda-take-last-ride-transit-superstar

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 14, 2026 6:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
"ALIEN INVASION".............. Shocked Shocked

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?58787

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 14, 2026 7:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Looks like the days of "REAL" streetcars seeking asylum at railway museums after retirement is now a thing of the past........ Sad

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 14, 2026 9:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Doesn't look worth saving but I suppose some of the younger set might disagree.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 14, 2026 10:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Cyberider wrote:
Doesn't look worth saving but I suppose some of the younger set might disagree.


Cyberider:

At most trolley/rail museums nowadats, much of the volunteer "base" is aging,and, sadly, passing on.

I've read that, each year, at these museums, there are less and less older men who had a "personal" connection with these historic cars; what "new blood" there is have no connection at all to the vintage equipment we both highly revere.

The late Gerald Brookins, founder of the now-defunct "Trolleyville USA" was indeed a great hero of mine, treated each streetcar and interurban in his " collection"as though they were his own children.

How much I could identify with this rare gentleman.

I'd have felt the same way, had those vintage electrics been in my personal care (he'd had several magnificent wood and steel CA&E cars in his collection, also several operable Shaker Heights center entrance cars, operating MU),........

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 14, 2026 10:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Cyberider:

See.......

www.clevelandmemory.org/brookins/index.html

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