San Francisco has an antique streetcar collection (of course it does!), and the boat-shaped streetcar from England is SPECIAL.
Slow, and special. It only runs on Sundays and Mondays (currently). I've been turned away from its final trip back to the barn (where the streetcars sleep), because it is a bit slow, and to prevent from slowing down the modern streetcars, the operators take it across town without making passenger stops.
But I saw it coming at the Ferry Building, and optimistically waited. A group of tourists needed to get off, and so the operators let some of us random passengers board. And stay on. Not just to Castro Street, but all the way back to the barn at Balboa Park!!
So I got to ride the boat all the way across town! It has been years since I rode it, and this was SPECIAL.
People WAVED to us. (We waved back.). People took photos. People smiled. It was... charming.
I can't think of a more special form of public transit to take home on a gorgeous day.
