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! First Edition: Available at the Western Railway Museum BART Grand Opening 9/12-9/13. 

Reserve a copy of the BART Legacy Fleet Book!

The first edition of the book is a 230-page history covering social and technical details of the legacy fleet, from design to operation and decommissioning. It is titled Selections from Legacy Fleet: The Story of BART's Old Cars. This book covers all major events in the story of the legacy fleet.

The book’s sections include the following:

• Design mockup and lab cars
  
• Building BART prototype and production cars
• Off and Running - the early days
  
• BART's influence on transit across the world
• B Conversion program and the flat nosed C Cars
  
• Midlife and the new millennium, A/B refurbishment
  
• Sunset and Legacy
  
• Preservation and reuse
  

A second edition, produced at a later date, is based on Selections and will include further minutia and details on the history of the Fleet of the Future. This will include nonrevenue equipment, detailed car equipment lists, timetables and car utilization stats, model BART car history, and more. This will be about 669 pages long.

 
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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8/30/26