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

The most detailed book ever written on the 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 
  • Off and Running
  • B Converts and the Flat Nosed Cars
  • Midlife and the New Millennium
  • Sunset and Legacy
  • Fleet of the Future
  • Nonrevenue Equipment
 
Alongside a detailed appendix including the following:
  • Timetables and SCRAMS
  • Equipment Drawings
  • Car Numberings and Renumberings
  • Operations and Facilities
  • Presidential Remarks
  • Miscellaneous
  • 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, and rode them. You will be hard pressed to find any similarly detailed book on rapid transit cars, anywhere.
7/31/25