San Francisco's F-Line: The story of how America's most exciting and successful new transportation experience was built!
Peter Ehrlich, born in 1946, currently resides in Carmel, New York. He lived in San Francisco for 44 years, from 1966 to 2010. Mr. Ehrlich was employed by the San Francisco Municipal Railway as a streetcar operator from 1979 to 2005, the last ten years as an F-Line operator, and served with distinction. He broke in on Muni's vintage fleet in 1982, and was assigned to the 1987 Trolley Festival. Throughout his employment, he studied San Francisco transit history closely, and the events that led to the creation of today's F-Line. Mr. Ehrlich also began developing his photographic skills during his time in San Francisco. His main film cameras were a series of Minolta X-700s, a Nikon F3, and later a Nikon F100, and others. He graduated to digital photography in 2002 with a Nikon D100. He now uses a D700. His photographs have been appeared in the Market Street Railway's Museums In Motion cameras, and extensively on Yahoo!'s Flickr site, and the www.nycsubway.org site. He has his own photography business, www.pdephotography.com. Mr. Ehrlich is also an accomplished musician. Until joining Muni in 1979, he ran his own music business teaching recorder and selling Renaissance woodwinds and music for recorders.