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Roof Job
Happy 102nd Birthday, Muni!
On December 28, 1912, America’s first big city transit line owned by the people themselves opened. In San Francisco, on Geary Street. The San Francisco Municipal Railway broke the pattern of transit systems owned by private companies.
“The Mayoral Limo”
Cable Car Holiday Tradition
We’ve been loving the decorated cable cars on the Powell and California lines this holiday season (see photo below). The idea of decorated cable cars actually goes back at least 65 years to the last desperate years of the California Street Cable Railway Company.
5-McAllister film
Intended just for our members, here’s a bonus from the 2014 No. 3 edition of Inside Track: rare motion picture film of streetcars on the 5-McAllister line, edited and narrated by Market Street Railway’s president, Rick Laubscher.
Now THAT’S a Storm!
STORMAGEDDON! STORMPOCYLPSE!
Dressed for the Season
Header for Cablecars Page
Cable cars were invented by Andrew S. Hallidie, a Scots-born mining engineer. The story goes that he saw horses struggling to pull a railcar filled with passengers up one of San Francisco’s hills and decided to adapt his mining conveyor technology to pull rail cars, by means of an endless loop of cable under the street, between the tracks. He opened the world’s first cable car line, on Clay Street in San Francisco, in August 1873.
