Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Looking at the various urban transports, as filmed in July 1998.

Included in this film are:
*the original Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) trains (including a ride inside), seen prior to refurbishment;
*Breda and Boeing light rail vehicles;
*PCC and Peter Witt streetcars / trams;
*trolleycoaches / trolleybuses;
*the unusual curved escalators;
*the steeply graded Lombard Street and its hairpin bends;
*real and pseudo cable cars - the latter are motor buses built for tourist sightseeing services which have been styled to look like cable cars;
*double deck buses used on tourist sightseeing services.

Everything is seen briefly - film two looks at the cable cars in much greater detail with footage from more locations in this city.and also a cable car ride

Filmed using an Hitachi S83 S-VHS-C camcorder with stereo sound plus a still image slide show with images derived from 35mm film (mostly Kodachrome).

Slide show music Samba Isobel by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) CC-BY-3.0
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