San Francisco's F-Line: The story of how America's most exciting and successful new transportation experience was built! - Brossura

Ehrlich, Peter

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1466937394 ISBN 13: 9781466937390

Casa editrice: Trafford, 2012

Riassunto

San Francisco's F-Line is the fun way to ride transit in one of America's greatest cities. Using multi-colored streetcars, built in the 1940s, 1920s and even earlier, it is a transforming experience that carries the rider back to a more genteel and carefree time, while providing an efficient and pleasant way to get from here to there in a modern era. Its creation has shown the world that public transportation can be exciting, fun, and a source of civic pride. The author, an active participant in the success of the F-Line, has written the book in an upbeat and breezy style, sprinkling anecdotes drawn from his own experiences and those of fellow workers and participants throughout the book. In this way, the book will appeal not only to those who are in, or follow, the transit industry, but also to the average reader, rider, and San Francisco Bay Area resident. Anyone who rides the F-Line will get a much fuller appreciation of this great city.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Peter Ehrlich, born in 1946, currently resides in Carmel, New York. He lived in San Francisco for 44 years, from 1966 to 2010. Mr. Ehrlich was employed by the San Francisco Municipal Railway as a streetcar operator from 1979 to 2005, the last ten years as an F-Line operator, and served with distinction. He broke in on Muni's vintage fleet in 1982, and was assigned to the 1987 Trolley Festival. Throughout his employment, he studied San Francisco transit history closely, and the events that led to the creation of today's F-Line. Mr. Ehrlich also began developing his photographic skills during his time in San Francisco. His main film cameras were a series of Minolta X-700s, a Nikon F3, and later a Nikon F100, and others. He graduated to digital photography in 2002 with a Nikon D100. He now uses a D700. His photographs have been appeared in the Market Street Railway's Museums In Motion cameras, and extensively on Yahoo!'s Flickr site, and the www.nycsubway.org site. He has his own photography business, www.pdephotography.com. Mr. Ehrlich is also an accomplished musician. Until joining Muni in 1979, he ran his own music business teaching recorder and selling Renaissance woodwinds and music for recorders.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Trafford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1466937394
• ISBN 13: 9781466937390
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 292
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile