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Welcome to the San Diego Vintage Trolley!

San Diego Vintage Trolley, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the restoration and operation of historic streetcars in San Diego. The organization is directed by board members associated with the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System, funded by grants and donations, and restoration is performed primarily by authorized volunteers. SDVT currently has three 1946-vintage streetcars, one of which is presently undergoing restoration.

SDVT is planning to run the refurbished cars on in the "Centre City Loop" as the Silver Line in time for August 2008’s American Public Transit Association’s meeting in San Diego.

The cars selected were previously owned by San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) and sold to a gentleman in Lake Tahoe for possible use in a heritage trolley effort in Tahoe or Sacramento. Harry Mathis, former San Diego City Councilman and now Chairman of the Board of the Metropolitan Transit System (MTS), and  Andy Goddard, Jr., from San Diego Trolley, arranged for initial funding, sale, and transport of these Presidents' Conference Committee (PCC) streetcars to the San Diego Trolley yard in December 2005. While the cars sat nearly 15 years exposed to the Lake Tahoe climate, Mathis and the rest of the SDVT team feel that the cars can be successfully restored and run along with the Light Rail Vehicles (LRVs) in the downtown loop.

Cars 1122, 1123, and 1170 now reside in the more temperate climate of San Diego but years of use and lack of use have taken their toll. These cars are inside the A Building Trolley Maintenance shop.

For updates on progress, see our News page.

This page was last updated on 07/14/07.

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