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Market Street Railway brings us word one of the rarest streetcars historic fleet may be back in action soon. Zürich streetcar no.737 was spotted on the M-line while out for testing this weekend.

The tram was acquired from a broker in Brussels 10 years ago when Muni was looking for possible additional groups of streetcars for the F-line.

Since the car was a European version of a PCC, with many of the same components, the thinking went it would be easy to maintain. But the tram had been modified over the years with a number of now-obsolete electronic components and other changes had been made that took awhile to remedy, so the car’s service has been sporadic.

Photo: Jeremy Whiteman