The murals depicting Oakland’s historical Key System have been dismantled as restoration of 1100 Broadway begins. The 50 panels will be restored and displayed at the Western Railway Museum. The Key System provided rail transportation in the East Bay all the way to San Jose from 1903 to 1960.
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Volunteers from the Bay Area Electric Railroad Association, from left, Bob Immergluck and Mike Ninneman load one of 50 panels that make up a Key System mural at 1100 Broadway onto a truck in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018. Bay Area Electric Railroad Association volunteers packed the mural panels that were removed from the former Key System Building to transport them to the Western Railway Museum in Suisun City. (Laura A. Oda/Bay Area News Group)
A detail shot of one of the panels that made up the Key System mural at 1100 Broadway in Oakland, Calif., is on a dolly waiting to be loaded on a truck on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018. Bay Area Electric Railroad Association volunteers packed up about 50 mural panels removed from the former Key System Building to transport them to the Western Railway Museum in Suisun City. (Laura A. Oda/Bay Area News Group)
Volunteer from the Bay Area Electric Railroad Association Mike Ninneman waits to load one of 50 panels that make up a Key System mural at 1100 Broadway onto a truck in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018. Bay Area Electric Railroad Association volunteers packed the mural panels that were removed from the former Key System Building to transport them to the Western Railway Museum in Suisun City. (Laura A. Oda/Bay Area News Group)
Volunteer from the Bay Area Electric Railroad Association Mike Ninneman loads one of 50 panels that make up a Key System mural at 1100 Broadway onto a truck in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018. Bay Area Electric Railroad Association volunteers packed the mural panels that were removed from the former Key System Building to transport them to the Western Railway Museum in Suisun City. (Laura A. Oda/Bay Area News Group)
Volunteers from the Bay Area Electric Railroad Association , from left, Curtis Blake, Ryan Blake and Bob Tower, director of communications for the Western Railway Museum, work at 1100 Broadway loading 50 panels that make up a Key System mural into trucks in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018. Bay Area Electric Railroad Association volunteers packed the mural panels that were removed from the former Key System Building to transport them to the Western Railway Museum in Suisun City. (Laura A. Oda/Bay Area News Group)
Volunteers from the Bay Area Electric Railroad Association , from left, Bob Immergluck, Mike Ninneman and Ryan Blake work at 1100 Broadway moving about 50 panels that make up a Key System mural to trucks in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018. Bay Area Electric Railroad Association volunteers packed the mural panels that were removed from the former Key System Building to transport them to the Western Railway Museum in Suisun City. (Laura A. Oda/Bay Area News Group)
About 50 panels of the Key system mural are moved from a small alley behind 1100 Broadway in Oakland, Calif., to trucks on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018. Bay Area Electric Railroad Association volunteers packed up the mural panels that were removed from the former Key System Building to transport them to the Western Railway Museum in Suisun City. (Laura A. Oda/Bay Area News Group)
Curtis Blake, member of the Western Railway Museum, left, admires one of 50 panels that make of the Key System mural before it gets loaded onto a dolly at 1100 Broadway in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018. Bay Area Electric Railroad Association volunteers packed up about 50 mural panels removed from the former Key System Building to transport them to the Western Railway Museum in Suisun City. (Laura A. Oda/Bay Area News Group)
Ryan Blake, volunteer and member of the Bay Area Electric Railroad Association helps load one of 50 panels of the Key System mural into a truck at 1100 Broadway in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018. Bay Area Electric Railroad Association volunteers packed up about 50 mural panels removed from the former Key System Building to transport them to the Western Railway Museum in Suisun City. (Laura A. Oda/Bay Area News Group)