BY CHRISTIAN GOEPEL PHOTOS BY THE AUTHOR
hat is it about San Francisco that makes the city so appealing? Is it diverse neighborhoods, bound by steel rails winding their way up and down the hills of the City by the Bay? Is it the rich tapestry of cultures and that find com- mon ground aboard a streetcar? The modern Muni system has been in operation for more than 100 years, and still retains its original charm as it continues to serve the city day and night...
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Two crowded N-Judah trains meet in ethereal afternoon light at 42nd Avenue in the sleepy Outer Sunset district (known colloquially as “The Avenues”). This neighborhood was once a vastly unpopulated expanse of sand dunes along the Pacific Ocean, and owes its very existence to this heavily trafficked Muni extension, which opened in 1928.
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