The Not-So-Good Old Days
Streetcars gridlocked on Market Street in 1922. In the foreground, Lotta’s Fountain is visible on the corner of Market & Kearny. San Francisco Municipal Railway photo.
Streetcars gridlocked on Market Street in 1922. In the foreground, Lotta’s Fountain is visible on the corner of Market & Kearny. San Francisco Municipal Railway photo.
The Great Highway circa 1903.
The first streetcar to be built for San Francisco. The first publicly owned streetcar, built for the worlds for government-run public transit agency.
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New Orleans streetcar no. 952.
Streetcar 130 was part of an order for 125 cars to expand Muni service for the 1914 Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
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1011 in the Market Street Railway Company’s “zip stripe” livery.
San Francisco streetcar No. 578 is America’s oldest passenger streetcar still on the active roster of an urban transit agency, and one of the oldest operating electric streetcars in the world.