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The San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) is the public transit system for San Francisco, California. Several bus, trolleybus, streetcar/light rail, and cable car routes were historically served, but have been discontinued. It began service on December 28, 1912, with two streetcar routes on Geary Boulevard and continued to expand operations.
Pages in category "Defunct California railroads" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 209 total. ... San Francisco Belt Railroad; San ...
The Pacific and Atlantic Railroad Company (P&A) was founded on September 6, 1851, with the goal of building a railroad between San Francisco and San Jose. [2] The route was surveyed and published by the end of 1851, but the P&A was unable to raise funds locally; when the P&A turned to banking houses in New York and England, they were told that no funds could be disbursed without first ...
Portion of route along Tomales Bay Schedule and rates for March 1887 (note the spelling for Sausalito) Mileposts conform to Southern Pacific Railroad convention of distance from San Francisco: [1] San Francisco – Sausalito via Ferry; Sausalito (milepost 6.5) San Rafael; Junction (later known as San Anselmo) (milepost 16.5) Fairfax (milepost 18.3)
The Peninsular Railway was incorporated in 1909 as the successor to the Peninsular Railroad, San Jose & Los Gatos Interurban Railway, and the Santa Clara Interurban Railway. [ 4 ] Another attempt to complete this line to San Francisco came in the next decade, with the Peninsular coming to an agreement with the United Railroads of San Francisco ...
San Francisco Electric Railways: Potrero and Bay View Railroad: 1866 [2] 1893 [3] Market Street Railway: Presidio and Ferries Railroad: 1882 [3] 1914 [1] San Francisco Municipal Railway: San Francisco Electric Railways: 1909 [1] Gough Street Railroad [4] San Francisco Municipal Railway: San Francisco and San Mateo Railway: 1896 [3] San ...
The Third and Townsend Depot was the main train station in the city of San Francisco for much of the first three quarters of the 20th century. The station at Third Street and Townsend Street served as the northern terminus for Southern Pacific's Peninsula Commute line between San Francisco and San Jose (forerunner of Caltrain) and long-distance trains between San Francisco and Los Angeles via ...
By November 1882, the San Francisco & Ocean Shore Railroad had indefinitely ceased development of the line, and after numerous economic crashes, the line was abandoned without a single track laid. The railroad was in fact reorganized though into the San Francisco & Santa Cruz Railway, however, the railroad went bankrupt and had to shut down.