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Own an authentic piece of San Francisco transit history with this “F-line Takes You There” Car Card – seen on the F-Line streetcars circa 2020.
This printed styrene car card measures 28″ x 11″, and features our San Francisco streetcar #1040, alongside signs describing the wonderful activities along the F-line.
Capture the spirit of San Francisco with these highly detailed Bachmann motorized HO Scale Cable Cars, featuring authentic paint schemes, finely molded details, and smooth rolling wheels for effortless operation on an electrified layout. Offered in three different liveries: Cable Car #15 in Yellow & Red, #16 in Blue & Tan, #26 in Green & Gray. Read More……
Celebrate San Francisco’s baseball legacy with the Ballpark design from the Historic Travel Series. Featuring a historic streetcar passing Oracle Park, this tribute to the city’s love for the game is available on posters, prints, mugs, tote bags, and more. Read More……
Surrender to the thrill and get carried away by the age in which these marvellous trams circulated through our streets. Assembling, step by step, this marvellous kit model of the Lisboa tram will provide you with lengthy and splendid periods of creative leisure, recreating a faithful replica of the original Lisboa tram, with all its details. Read More……
OcCre’s Desire 922 Streetcar model is a meticulously designed and detailed scale representation of one of the world’s oldest and most iconic streetcars.
The construction kit includes all the parts needed to assemble the streetcar accurately and realistically, with elements such as the base, passenger compartments, exterior details and wheels closely resembling the original streetcar.
With high-quality materials and a focus on craftsmanship, the model offers a rewarding building experience and an impressive end result that captures the essence of historic elegance. Read More……
Provide family-wide fun with these gorgeous 500 piece puzzles! Produced locally by the Oakland Puzzle Company and featuring Bay Area artists, the designs range from historic landscapes to an adorable San Francisco pooch. These puzzles will provide your family with hours of fun, and you’ll have a beautiful design to admire afterwards! Read More……
All aboard! This colorful Wooden Toy Train Set includes 12 classic train cars made from durable wood, each with smooth-rolling wheels and magnetic couplers. Perfect for imaginative play and display, the set comes with a sturdy wooden shelf and is fully compatible with Brio tracks. Read More……
This laser-cut wood and metal 1:24 scale model kit of California Street Cable Car No. 60, is meticulously designed and includes all parts needed to assemble the cable car accurately and realistically.
The craft acrylic paint set with colors specific to the model includes all paints, stains and satin varnish to finish your model.
“San Francisco Street Railways: A Cartographic History” is probably the most detailed map documenting all the rail transit lines in San Francisco beginning in the 19th century up to present day. Meticulously researched and exquisitely drawn by historian Stephen Watson, this is the ultimate piece of San Francisco railway transit history, sure to settle an argument or two. Color print is 23.5″ x 34.5″ and ships rolled in a tube ready for framing. Read More……
Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of San Francisco’s Fabulous F-line! Learn the story of the vintage streetcar line that has operated in regular service on San Francisco’s Market Street since 1995. We offer the 2019 CERA (Bulletin #150) hardbound edition with dust jacket (324 pages) for $65.00. Edition is in full-color. Author Peter Ehrlich is a retired Muni F-line operator and accomplished transit photographer who worked the F-line until his retirement in 2005. Read More……
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……
The definitive way to display your love of San Francisco’s historic streetcars. Forty-five vintage beauties on a single poster. 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……
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……
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.
This DVD offers a nostalgic trip back in time to the most famous old San Francisco recreational destination told by historians and the people that were there. Through interviews, film footage, and hundreds of photographs, this film not only allows us to relearn and finally understand Sutro Baths’ history, but also to feel and experience it. 84 minutes in length. November Fire production 2011. Read More……
Here’s an opportunity to view San Francisco electric transit from the mid-20th century through system expansions and abandonments to today and the historic F-line. Excellent traction action around the City by the Bay. In color, 1 hour 30 minutes, narrated. Charles Smiley Production 2012.
15oz mug featuring Car 1040, the last PCC streetcar ever made, and still operating on it’s hometown track. Mug is white inside with color image outside and has a comfortable handle for large hands. Read More……
Packed full of historical photos and footage, this nostalgic documentary is a treat for any amusement park fan. The first and only documentary ever made about San Francisco’s Playland-at-the-Beach, this DVD Includes 3 short subjects on Playland. November Fire production 2010. 1 hour in length, color and black & white. Read More……
Originally built in 1863, the Cliff House is now a key part of the Sutro Historic District. That district, now a park, included the lavish gardens and structures of Sutro Heights and the home of Adolph Sutro, entrepreneur, real estate developer, and populist mayor of San Francisco. The ruins just north of the Cliff House housed the world-class swimming pool and museum complex called Sutro Baths. This full-length documentary tells the story of the Cliff House, Sutro Heights, and the attractions surrounding them. Run Time 84 minutes, November Fire production 2013. DVD also includes the short: “A Trip to the Cliff House,” by Mark Twain Read More……
