After the Second World War, in the late 1940\u2019s the trolley car was rapidly disappearing from the American inner city landscape.\u00a0 The rationing of gasoline and tires that was in place during the war had come to an end. America was now involved in a full blown love affair with the automobile. An alliance of bus building companies, tire manufactures, and fuel providers; formed a strong lobby to persuade local and state governments to scrap their trolley cars and tracks in favor of diesel fuel buses that ran on rubber tires.\u00a0 With the middle class rapidly moving to the suburbs after the war, municipal road and transportation planners felt trolleys and their tracks would only impede the onslaught of automobile traffic that would be entering and leaving their cities everyday.\u00a0 By the mid 1950\u2019s the trolley cars that once were the main stay of most urban city surface transportation had almost disappeared completely.<\/p>\n

The San Francisco MUNI F Line PCC trolley cars are a beautiful anachronism today that serves the city from Market Street in the Castro to Fisherman\u2019s Wharf.\u00a0 These cars manufactured from the mid 1930\u2019s to the early 1950\u2019s are truly \u201cmuseums in motion\u201d that grace the streets of San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Leonard Greenwald<\/em> has been photographing these vehicles since 2006 and has recently completed a photographic portfolio of these majestic PCC cars at night along their route.\u00a0 His fascination with urban rapid transit comes from his upbringing in New York City in the 1950\u2019s and 60\u2019s. \u00a0Each image is captured with a medium format camera on color slide film.\u00a0 The image is then scanned into a high resolution tif <\/i>file and post processed. The final image is then printed with an inkjet printer.<\/p>\n

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