Here you can read the story of the 40 Line, or San Mateo Interurban, which began in 1892 with an initial segment operating between Market and Steuart Streets out to the county limits on San Jose Avenue. Three years later, the line reached Baden in present-day South San Francisco, and by 1903 service was opened all the way to downtown San Mateo. Black & white photos. Authors Walter Vielbaum, Robert Townley, Walter Rice, Emiliano Echeverria, and Don Holmgren provide firsthand information and photos. Arcadia Publishing 2005, 128 pages. Read More……
Described as resilient as the city it served, San Francisco’s California Street Cable Railway (Cal Cable) was rebuilt following the 1906 earthquake and fire, and lasted as an independent business longer than any other private San Francisco transit operation. Cut down to its present form in 1954, that remnant and its double-ended cars survive as an integral part of today’s cable car system. By Walter Rice and Emiliano Echeverria, with Michael Dolgushkin. Published in 2008 by Arcadia Publishing, 128 pages. Read More……
Just days before the Great Earthquake and Fire destroyed much of the West’s greatest city, pioneer filmmakers, the Miles Brothers bolted a hand-cranked camera to the front of a cable car and rolled down San Francisco’s Market Street, unknowingly filming the end of an era. Our narrated version, subtly enhanced with the city sounds of horses and early automobiles, provides the social, political, and transportation context for everything you see in this remarkable 12 minute trip from Eighth Street to the Ferry Building. Superb restoration by Prelinger Archive, narration by Rick Laubscher. Available exclusively from Market Street Railway.
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We thank you for being a member of Market Street Railway. Your membership is very important to keeping the past present in the future. The wonderful historic streetcars in San Francisco didn’t just happen on their own. The support of Market Street Railway members is what made our successful advocacy for the streetcars possible.
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Our updated poster shows the many vintage liveries now gracing the Powell Street cable car fleet (a project supported by Market Street Railway). These paint schemes represent five different owners of the Powell line since 1888, in a kaleidoscope of colors.
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The definitive way to display your love of San Francisco’s historic streetcars. Forty-five vintage beauties on a single poster. Read More……
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