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BART Bay Area Rapid Transit Public Transit
Unlike most other rapid transit systems, BART lines historically were not primarily referred by color names (although the colors used on maps have been constant since 1980) or other shorthand designations. The services are mainly identified on maps, schedules, and station signage by the names of their termini. [from wikipedia]
1992 Delivery Antioch/Pittsburg eBART Extension BART New Cars BART San Jose Extension Mr. BART New Powell Entry Stations
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Antioch/Pittsburg eBART Extension, BART System, Contra Costa County, California

Antioch is a terminal station on the yellow line serving northern and eastern Contra Costa County. It is part of a new rail system that connects to BART's Pittsburg/Bay Point station using state-of-the art Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) vehicles.[from bart website]

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1992 Delivery, Of New BART Car

Bay Area Rapid Transit Maintenance Yard, Hayward

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Mr. BART

The little BART car that particpates in many of the Bay Area parades.

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New Powell Entry, To BART, And MUNI Systems, Stockton and Market Streets, San Francisco

Powell Street is a shared Muni Metro and Bay Area Rapid Transit station near the intersection of Market Street and Powell Street in downtown San Francisco. The station is located along the Market Street Subway and extends underground from Fourth Street to Fifth Street.[from wikipedia]

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BART San Jose Extension, Santa Clara, California

Santa Clara County, officially the County of Santa Clara, is the sixth-most populous county in the U.S. state of California, with a population of 1,936,259 as of the 2020 census.[4] Santa Clara County and neighboring San Benito County form the San Jose—Sunnyvale—Santa Clara metropolitan statistical area, which is part of the larger San Jose—San Francisco—Oakland combined statistical area.[from wikipedia]

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Stations, Of The BART System

Bay Area Rapid Transit District stations over the years.

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BART New Cars, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Public Transit

To run a typical peak morning commute, BART requires 579 cars. Of those, 535 are scheduled to be in active service; the others are used to build up four spare trains (used to maintain on-time service).[from wikipedia]


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