Car No. 162 plies Muni's M-line wearing the beloved green and cream 'Wings' livery that it will wear when it enters F-line service in 2007.

This is almost certainly the last original Muni streetcar to 'come home' to operate again in San Francisco. It was reacquired in 2003 by Market Street Railway and Muni from the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Riverside County.

Market Street Railway volunteers replaced the roof canvas and made a number of body repairs to the car. It then went to Muni’s shops in 2004, where modifications have gradually been made to prepare it for revenue service.

This car is painted in its last Muni livery, the Postwar 'Wings' introduced at the end of the 1940s and kept until the retirement of the car in 1958. Like its twin, preserved car No. 130 (in 1939 blue and gold livery), this car ran on virtually all of Muni’s streetcar lines, spending much time on the H-line along Van Ness and Potrero Avenues and through Fort Mason (like the proposed extension of historic streetcar service now in EIS preparation). Like No. 130, its large size and long–term reliability should make it a workhorse of the historic fleet, and very popular with San Franciscans of the Boomer Generation who remember it from childhood.

1914—Built for Muni in Ohio by Jewett Car Company, part of same order as car No. 130.

1914-1958—Used in regular service on virtually every Muni streetcar line. Painted in all three Muni liveries used during its service life, including the green and cream “Wings” in the 1950s (pictured at right).

1958—Retired from daily service. Sold to Orange Empire Railway Museum in Southern California.

2002—Repurchased by Market Street Railway and Muni and returned to San Francisco, where Market Street Railway volunteers began cosmetic restoration of the car.

2004—Moved to Green Division, in part under its own power, for further work by Muni, including modern electronic package, in preparation for revenue service.

Today—Work continues on car, slowly, to prepare for revenue service.