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The Market Street Railway Company was a commercial streetcar and bus operator in San Francisco. The company was named after the famous Market Street of that city, which formed the core of its transportation network.
Melbourne tram 648 on Market Street during the first San Francisco Historic Trolley Festival. Founded in 1976, Market Street Railway members created the successful San Francisco Historic Trolley Festivals of the 1980s that resulted in the permanent return of historic streetcars to Market Street in the form of the F Market & Wharves line — the most popular service of its kind in all of North ...
The F-Line fleet also includes a fleet of pre-PCC vintage cars built between 1895 and 1924 for use in San Francisco. Three passenger cars were built for Muni itself, and a further two for the independent Market Street Railway Company that ran competing streetcar services in San Francisco until acquired by Muni in 1944. The final car is a works ...
1950 Muni trolley coach 776 serving the 8 Market line on Market Street at 10th during the 1987 San Francisco Historic Trolley Festival. 74X Culture Bus in special livery , October 2008. The 53 Southern Heights was served by short 30-foot (9.1 m) buses, seen here in January 2008.
The San Francisco Railway Museum is a local railway museum located in the South of Market area of San Francisco. [1]This small museum features exhibits on the antique streetcars of the F Market & Wharves and national landmark cable cars that continue to run along the city's major arteries.
Melbourne tram 648 eastbound on Market Street between Powell and Stockton Streets during the first Trolley Festival. The San Francisco Historic Trolley Festival was a heritage streetcar service along Market Street in downtown San Francisco, California, that used a variety of vintage streetcars and operated five to seven days a week, primarily in the summer months, between 1983 and 1987. [3]
San Francisco Municipal Railway (1939 livery) Out of service Built in 1948 for Muni. Retired in 1982 and stored until 1994. Restored in 1996 by MK. Undergoing restoration at Brookville. 1011 San Francisco (Market Street Railway zip stripe) Operational This car was purchased in 1948 and ran in San Francisco until retirement in 1982. [79]
In 1983, Muni temporarily ran streetcars down Market Street as part of the San Francisco Historic Trolley Festival, initially conceived of as a substitute attraction for tourists during the one summer when no cable cars would be in operation. [106] The service became so popular that the festival was repeated for several years following. [107]