Tim
Baskerville Photography
PO Box 29074 - Presidio of
San Francisco 94129
Car No.1040, San francisco (19xx) Reflections
Car No. 130, San Francisco (1914)
"The new F-Line,
which grew out of the combined Municipal Railway and Market Street Railway's
Historic Trolley Festivals of recent years, has brought back surface-level
streetcar service along Market Street to Castro, with an extension planned
and under construction along the Embarcadero to Fisherman's Wharf. With the
addition of seventeen reconstructed PCC (streamlined, low-slung Presidents'
Conference Committee) cars, along
with MUNI's fleet of beautifully restored vintage streetcars from cities of
the U.S., Portugal, Germany, England, Japan, Italy and Australia, the F-Market
Line may well rival the ever popular Cable Cars of San Francisco.
"Noe Valley photographer
Tim Baskerville recently embarked on a project to photograph the interiors
of these streetcars, with their fine woodworking, sturdy metal fixtures and
open space. The light, fine detail, and elegance of these proud old trams
and trolleys represents a mode of transportation all but gone from the hustle-bustle
of our modern age and is captured in this series of photographs.
"We present Interiors: The F-Market Line,
by Tim Baskerville."
(from Inaugural Exhibition
of F-Line work, 1995)