BART's Opening Day Cars: 1972 - 2022

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The cars of BART's Opening Day, on September 11th, 1972, are still in service almost 50 years later. This narrated video explores the cars and their story.
"BART Opens Today' (1972), KPIX-5 video, via SFSU Diva. diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfb...
WRM Rapid Transit History Center: www.wrm.org/fundraising-campa...
More on the legacy fleet: bartcars.weebly.com/
Nonprofit educational and research video, fair use for KPIX video.

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10 Ağu 2022

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Scott Hillhouse 9 aylar önce

Thanks man, this is awesome! Love all your unique BART videos and info - it’s really hard to find stuff online especially compared to systems like the CTA, MTA, etc.

ATP Transit 9 aylar önce

Thanks, I really appreciate it. I’ve been very fortunate to have started getting into transit with BART, right before the old cars started to go to the scrapper. It’s a troubled system in many different ways, but it was designed to be something different, a representation of a whole new era of public transit. Underneath the grime and dust there is a nice system.

Bonnie 8 aylar önce

Yep

Robert Townley 2 aylar önce

I was a BART engineer on that day and reminder it well. All of my files were donated to the Western Ry Museum, In that collection were a set of operation reports that listed. Car numbers for each day, Thanks for your great video. Bob Townley

ATP Transit 2 aylar önce

Hi Bob - Amazing to hear from you! I've been reading through your work at WRM. If you'd have chance, please let me know where to find it - I was recently going through the Fremont Flyer and appreciate all the detail you've kept on it and the rest of BART’s early history.

Cage Wilson Bass guy 9 aylar önce

When I was at the Muni heritage day event I spoke with someone who worked at the western railway museum and he told me that it’s confirmed that they got some Bart cars.

ATP Transit 9 aylar önce

Yes, we are working with BART to get cars, and they are very supportive of the effort, but there are no full BART cars on WRM property at the moment. In time, yes, there will be some BART cars at WRM.

Jeff Gün önce

I stood a few feet away from San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto on September 11, 1972 when he cut the ribbon at the BART ceremony. I filmed color movies of and rode the first train. Afterwards, I filmed the first day train operation and crowds. At the ceremony, it was announced that BART was the first automated rapid transit system. I blurted out loud enough to be heard, "What about PATCO". PATCO runs from Philadelphia to the Southern New Jersey suburbs and was automated. I was the first passenger on PATCO, which opened shortly before BART. I sat in the first seat on the first PATCO train. The officials at the BART ceremony were highly embarrassed and exclaimed "shhhh" in unison !! They didn't expect anybody from Southern New Jersey to be standing there.