page_title: US Standard Light Rail Vehicle
section_title: Preserved in museums
hierarchical_section_title: US Standard Light Rail Vehicle / Disposition / Preserved in museums
caption_attribution_description: Ex-San Francisco Muni Boeing LRV No. 1213 in operation at the Oregon Electric Railway Museum (Brooks, Oregon) in August 2001. No. 1213 was built in 1977 as one of two 'pilot' cars for an order of LRVs by Muni and was originally numbered 1221. It was acquired by the Oregon Electric Railway Historical Society in 2000 and arrived at the museum in November 2000.
context_page_description: The US Standard Light Rail Vehicle was a light rail vehicle built by Boeing Vertol in the 1970s. The Urban Mass Transportation Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation promoted it as a standardized vehicle for U.S. cities. Part of a series of defense conversion projects in the waning days of the Vietnam War, the SLRV was seen as both a replacement for older PCC streetcars in many cities and as a catalyst for cities to construct new light rail systems. The US SLRV was marketed as and is popularly known as the Boeing LRV or SLRV, and should not be confused with their prior lunar roving vehicles for NASA.
  The US SLRV was purchased by the public transportation operators of Boston and San Francisco; in service by 1976, the US SLRV proved to be unreliable and scrapping started as early as 1987, but the US SLRV were not completely replaced in both systems until 2007. Although the SLRV itself was not successful due to poor reliability, it did set the general size and configuration for succeeding LRVs in the United States.
context_section_description: Three US SLRVs have been saved in museums:
  ex-Muni 1213 at the Oregon Electric Railway Museum (acquired 2000)
  ex-Muni 1258 at the Western Railway Museum (acquired 2002)
  ex-MBTA 3424 at the Seashore Trolley Museum (acquired 2009)
  Two others remained stored on Muni property for several years after retirement of the last cars from service, car 1320 at Geneva Division and car 1264 at the streetcar yard at Market and Duboce near the U.S. Mint (but later also moved to Geneva).  These two cars remained stored until being scrapped in April 2016. Another ex-Muni car (1271) is used as an office trailer at a Bay Area scrapyard.
  The Seashore Trolley Museum had inquired about acquiring MBTA 3444, which was equipped with the plug door, for their collection, but did not take it because the car was not in operating condition and Seashore wanted an operating example. 3444 was missing several essential components, including one of the trucks, and was heavily rusted. 3444 was later scrapped in 2005 and Seashore instead acquired rehabilitated car 3424, which was moved to the museum from MBTA's Riverside Yard on July 9, 2009.
  Seashore Trolley Museum is also considering acquiring unrehabbed car 3417, currently a part of the MBTA work fleet, for the collection.
caption: Car 1213 in operation at the Oregon Electric Railway Museum
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