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Since obs car is ostensibly about railroad art & literature, I will point out that former BART? spokesman Mike Healy wrote his history of BART based on his career there. it's called?BART: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System and is worth checking out.?

I did notice a few minor mistakes in the text, none of which is BART-related:

Early on, there is a reference to the SP commute at 4th and Townsend although at the time in question the SP station was still at 3rd and Townsend.

At the top of page 42, Palo Alto is mislocated in San Mateo County. Palo Alto is in Santa Clara County. East Palo Alto, a separate city incorporated in 1983, is in San Mateo County.
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In the second paragraph on page 72, it should be noted that although Sacramento Northern’s passenger trains to the Bay Area ended in 1941, (SN trains used the Bay Bridge railway to access San Francisco from January 1939 to June 1941.) freight service to Oakland continued until 1957, which is why the ROW was still there when BART was ready to build the test track. And while Western Pacific owned Sacramento Northern since 1922, Union Pacific did not take over WP until 1982 and had nothing to do with selling the SN ROW to BART.
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At the bottom of page 76, there is a passing reference to “bulldozers and steam shovels.” I’m pretty sure steam shovels had fallen out of use in North America by the 1960s, being replaced by diesel-powered excavating shovels.
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On page 145, there is a discussion of Chronicle reporter Michael Harris criticizing BART for not using rubber tire technology like “Toronto and Paris.” That should read “Montreal and Paris;” Toronto’s subways use steel on steel technology.

Despite this, it is an interesting history.

BH