Legacy Fleet - Shop Stickers

In 1991 (see volume 3 of the book), BART began a captive fleet program assigning each car to a particular shop. Each shop was responsible for maintaining a particular fleet of cars, which was meant to invoke a sense of pride into “their cars” and increase the reliability of the aging fleet.

Early identification was through the installation of color decals near car numbers. They were as follows:
Yellow – Concord
Red – Daly City
Green – Hayward
Orange – Richmond.

By 2010, the captive fleet became more visual to the public with the installation of colorful shop stickers showcasing which shop the car belonged to. The design of these stickers was similar to New York City Bus Operations depot decals placed on busses to show a similar type of captive fleet.

The stickers were located in the center of the car.

This car proudly maintained by: The Concord Shop. With a road runner "beep beep"

This vehicle maintained with pride – Hayward Shop. With a C car.

This car maintained by: Daly City Maintenance Facility. With C1 car 353. Car 1834 in the WRM has this sticker.

This car proudly maintained by: Richmond Shop. A car 1195 and the 3001 rendering.

Old Richmond Shop version:

Richmond Maintenance Facility

With the installation of a new “PUBLIC NOTICE: CODE OF CONDUCT” decal in the center of the cars (in 2018), the shop sticker was removed or covered. Only Daly City shop continued to consistently retain the stickers by placing them below the Public Notice, and the final run of the fleet included some cars with the sticker (which by then, had been assigned to Hayward).

The new cars do not have shop decals, which eliminates the time required to swap them out when cars changed shops, but also eliminates that public display of showcasing the shop that maintains the car.

Created: 6/2/25.