E-line Opening Now August 1

July 3, 2015July 3, 2015 Rick Laubscher E-Embarcadero Updates, Help Us!, Muni News, PCC - Big Ten Class, Posts with Photos, Volunteer Opportunities 1006, E-Embarcadero, E-line

[caption id="attachment_7727" align="alignleft" width="700"] PCC Streetcar No. 1006, training on the E-line June 30, 2015, joins the light rail tracks that emerge from the Market Street Subway at Folsom Street.[/caption]

Training for E-line Under Way

July 1, 2015July 3, 2015 Rick Laubscher E-Embarcadero Updates, Muni News, PCC - Big Ten Class, Policy & Planning, SFMSR 1006, 1011, E-Embarcadero, E-line

[caption id="attachment_7721" align="alignleft" width="700"] Vintage 1948 double-end PCC streetcars Nos. 1006 (left) and 1011 pass just south of the Ferry Building during E-line training, July 1, 2015[/caption]

E-Line Startup Looks Set for July 25

June 16, 2015September 28, 2015 Rick Laubscher Antique Streetcars, E-Embarcadero Updates, Help Us!, Muni News, PCC - Big Ten Class, Policy & Planning, Posts with Photos, SF - Antiques, Volunteer Opportunities 1, 1006, 1007, 1008, 1009, 1010, 1011, 1015, 130, 496, E-Embarcadero, E-line, Embarcadero, Fisherman's Wharf

[caption id="attachment_7693" align="alignleft" width="700"] E-line car No. 1008 in 2013 Demonstration Service at its Caltrain Depot terminal.[/caption]

Super Bowl Party Kicks Out F-Line Streetcars

April 22, 2015 Rick Laubscher Muni News, Posts with Photos

San Francisco F-line Pacific Electric PCC Streetcar Toy

This wooden train toy of San Francisco F-line Pacific Electric Car #1061 is sized to run on Brio and Thomas wooden tracks, so kids can use it with their existing wooden train sets. Toy comes boxed, and measures 7″ long x 1 1/2″ wide in. x 2″ high. Wheels move and turn with the track. Ages 3 and up. Read More……

Centennial of the (Original) F-line

December 29, 2014 Rick Laubscher History Spotlight, Posts with Photos, SFMSR

On December 29, 1914, the original F-line opened: the San Francisco Municipal Railway’s F-Stockton line. It was Muni’s sixth streetcar line and was given impetus by the huge Panama-Pacific International Exposition which opened just two months later at the end of the new F-line on Chestnut Street, in what’s now the Marina District.

Archival Prints Now at our Museum and Online

November 10, 2014 Rick Laubscher SFMSR

Just in time for holiday giving to your San Francisco history-loving friends, eight great new images from the Market Street Railway Archives. You can view them all here. These are quality 8″x10″ prints in double 11″x14″ mattes, perfect for economical ready-made frames in that standard size.

F-Line Streetcar Fleet Placemat

This smaller version of our full sized streetcar fleet poster is laminated and double sided. One side shows the entire streetcar fleet while the other has a PCC streetcar ready for you to design your own livery using dry-erase markers. Perfect for kids of all ages!