Muni Heritage Weekend, jointly sponsored by us and Muni’s parent, SFMTA, is ON again this year.
Ride into the past: Muni Heritage Weekend Sept. 20-21
Author: Rick Laubscher
Summer vintage streetcar service UPDATES
UPDATE: “Special Guest Streetcar” service is operating Friday, August 22, with its first trip leaving Castro and Market around 12:30 p.m. Milan Tram 1815, in all its 97-year old Italian glory, is the car of the day but unfortunately does not appear on our exclusive live streetcar map. There will be NO F-line streetcar service Saturday-Sunday, August 23-24 (buses instead), so that Muni and PG&E can conduct work on Church Street, the route the F-line cars use in and out of service (the J-Church line is similarly bus-ified this weekend).
The 22 Fillmore: a line to love since 1895
Muni’s 22-Fillmore line is one of San Francisco’s longest-lived and most important transit routes, gaining additional popularity even now, 130 years after it was built.
The fall of Market Street Railway
May 15, 1932 was perhaps the peak of San Francisco’s streetcar era. True, a few unimportant lines had been abandoned in the previous few years, but on this day, San Francisco celebrated a brand-new streetcar line: Market Street Railway’s 31-Balboa. It would be the last new line with substantial new trackage until the F-line opened along the Embarcadero to Fisherman’s Wharf 68 years later.
It was 25 years ago this month…
…that the F-Market streetcar line became the F-Market & Wharves streetcar line, with the opening of the extension from First and Market Streets to Jones and Beach, connecting Downtown to the Ferry Building, The Embarcadero, and Fisherman’s Wharf. On March 4, 2000, the extension created what we call the “Steel Triangle” of rail: the two Powell cable lines and the F-line.
Black barrier-breakers in San Francisco transit
San Francisco didn’t always have a reputation for openness and inclusion. The city’s past has been marred by discrimination in many forms. For example, before World War II, all but a small number of city employees were white.
2026 calendar photos wanted
What? Some of us are still hung over from New Year’s Eve, and you’re already thinking of 2026?
Yep.
Santa Claus Was Coming to Town
2025 calendar going fast!
This year marks the 20th anniversary of our popular “Museums in Motion” wall calendar. To celebrate, we’ve included a page showing thumbnails of all 20 calendars. It’s quite a tour of Muni’s historic rail fleet in and of itself. Shout out to our dedicated and most talented designer, David Dugan! (We like that collage of 20 calendar covers so much that we made a 300-piece puzzle out of it.
Boat tram, ‘Swiss Navy’ sailing for Fleet Week
In support of Fleet Week, SFMTA/Muni has dispatched two “vessels” to cruise The Embarcadero, shuttling happy passengers between Pier 39 and the Ferry Building. They’re supplementing regular F-line service between the heart of Fisherman’s Wharf (Jones and Jefferson) and Castro, via The Embarcadero and Market Street.
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