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The Museums In Motion project
How transit helped build San Francisco
Museums In Motion is a Market Street Railway project to create interior displays onboard historic F-line streetcars that provide snapshots of how rail transit has helped shape San Francisco's development, economy, social trends, and urban geography.

Use the following links to explore online versions of Museums In Motions displays that are currently being installed in F-line cars.

Special Delivery (coming soon)
Cities require commerce to prosper. Getting important parcels and letters delivered quickly has always been important. In San Francisco around the turn of the 20th Century, cable cars and streetcars filled a role that delivery vans and bicycle messengers do today. In the early 1890s, the United States Post Office Department began nationwide studies to speed up city mail delivery and processing by using local rail transit systems...
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