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Horsecar at Market & Post, c. 1865 The franchise for what would become the Market Street Railway was granted in 1857 to Thomas Hayes.The line was the first railway to open in San Francisco, commencing service on July 4, 1860 as the Market Street Railroad Company.
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 ...
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.
Cable car operations along Market Street began in 1888. Service was electrified in 1906. [4]In 1915, the San Francisco Municipal Railway started the F-Stockton route, which ran from Laguna (later Scott) and Chestnut Streets in the Marina down Stockton Street to 4th and Market Streets near Union Square, later extended to the Southern Pacific Depot (currently the Caltrain Depot) in 1947.
Market Street Railway was the first transit organization in San Francisco to run trackless trolleys, using nine coaches built by Brill in 1935 for the 33 line, numbered 51–59. Each Brill was 33 ft (10 m) long and seated 37; approximately half used traction motors from General Electric (GE) and the other half used Westinghouse (WH) motors.
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.
The San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) is the primary public transit system for San Francisco, California. Muni is part of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, which is also responsible for the streets, parking, traffic signals, and other transportation in the city. In 2019, Muni had the eighth-highest ridership among systems ...
Market Street Railway may refer to: Market Street Railway (nonprofit) , a nonprofit organization that supports the operation of the F Market historic streetcar line in San Francisco Market Street Railway (transit operator) , a former commercial streetcar operator in San Francisco