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Muni Centennial Logo on a Mug and Sticker!
Through a special arrangement with Muni’s parent, SFMTA, we are able to offer Muni’s Centennial logo on a coffee mug and a sticker. Mugs are priced at $10.95; stickers at $2.99. Market Street Railway members get 10%off! For now, these are only available at our San Francisco Railway Museum, so drop by and check them out.
Spring Training
This screenshot from the special F-line LIVE map that NextMuni created at our request shows a welcome sight this showery Saturday. There’s Muni Car No. 1 out on the F-line, at the Wharf terminal, upper left. The screenshot shows the F-line around 1:30 p.m., Saturday, March 31.
Museum Closed Until January 3, 2012
Our San Francisco Railway Museum will be closed for inventory and cleaning between December 24 and January 2. We’ll be open again Tuesday, January 3 at 10 a.m. You can still shop for gifts online, and of course, the F-line streetcars and cable cars are operating daily.
Muni Centennial Book Signing This Sunday
How NOT To Make Friends For your Transit Product
There’s an outfit down in Silicon Valley — SMT Rail — that thinks they have a better idea for mass rail transit. But the way they’re marketing it isn’t going to make friends in San Francisco at least.
The 5 Returns to its Historic Route
5-line streetcar inbound on McAllister at Larkin, 1941. It will go straight to Market, unlike the successor trolley buses that had to detour down Hyde for decades. By the way, Market Street Railway volunteers are restoring the twin of this streetcar. That car, No. 798, is the only one of 250 of this type that survives — streetcars hand-built by San Francisco workers in the shops of our namesake, Market Street Railway Company.
Awesome Muni Streetcar-Cable Car Simulator (Ja!)
We’ve long known that Germans have a real affinity for transit. Just come into our San Francisco Railway Museum almost any day and meet some.
Rollin’ on the River
Market Street Movie, Shot 105 Years Ago Today
It was on (or very close to) April 14, 1906 that the Miles Brothers, early San Francisco commercial filmmakers, bolted a hand-cranked camera to the front of a United Railroads cable car and created one of the longest “dolly shots” in film history, a 12-minute nonstop ride down Market Street between Eighth Street and the Ferry Building.
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