Legacy Fleet: The Story of BART's Old Cars
The Book on BART's Legacy Fleet

Here is the video version of the book, "condensed into only an hour and a half."

The most detailed book ever written on the BART Legacy Fleet is approaching the station! Estimated printing: Q2 2026.

Reserve a copy of the BART Legacy Fleet Book!

This book spares no expense in covering the important social and technical details of the legacy fleet, totaling about 669 pages of the most revolutionary postwar rapid transit cars ever built.

The book’s sections include the following:

• Design to Production Cars
  
• Off and Running - the early days
  
• BART's influence on transit across the world
  
• B Converts and the Flat Nosed C Cars
  
• Midlife and the New Millennium, Refurbishment
• Sunset and Legacy
  
• Fleet of the Future
• Nonrevenue Equipment

 
Alongside a detailed appendix including the following:

• Timetables and car utilization stats
• Equipment Drawings
• Car Numberings and Renumberings
• Operations and Facilities
• Presidential Remarks
• Route and Stations
• Model BART Cars
• Much, much more.

Sample passages available here: A History of the BART Legacy Fleet

This the unofficial history of the legacy fleet – as seen and recorded through those that designed, built, operated, maintained, rode, and preserved them. You will be hard pressed to find any similarly detailed book on rapid transit cars, anywhere.

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7/31/25