Ex-Newark PCC Streetcars Proliferating on F-line
Birmingham Electric No. 1077 followed by San Diego No. 1078 at Fisherman’s Wharf. Kevin Sheridan photo.
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Capital Addition to the Active F-Line Fleet
Free F-line Service This Weekend for Fleet Week
The Blue Angels, courtesy U.S. Navy.
Second Melbourne Tram Joins San Francisco’s F-line Historic Streetcar Fleet
Market Street Pilot Program Great for F-line
PCC streetcars pass reach other on Market Street
F-line accident at Noe Street
Jamison Wieser photo.
Reunifying the Wharf, Extending the F-line to Fort Mason
While National Park lands are a major destination of the planned streetcar extension to Fort Mason, connecting western Fisherman’s Wharf to regional transit and the rest of the waterfront is a big benefit as well. Market Street Railway illustration, Robert Campbell photo.
$2.50 for an F-line ride?
Maybe. For the first time, Muni staff is officially raising the prospect of a different F‑line fare with its governing board.
The Ballad of an F-line Trip
In 1901, the poet Gelett Burgess penned a poem that celebrated a cable car ride. Specifically, The Ballad of the Hyde Street Grip chronicled the feeling of riding what was then San Francisco’s newest cable car line, the O’Farrell, Jones & Hyde line, which had opened ten years before. The rule of that day was that any new cable car line was ‘inferior’ at the crossings to older lines, meaning that a gripman on the new line had to drop the cable at every crossing of an older line to keep the grip from slicing through the older line’s ‘superior’ cable, which crossed above the new line’s cable. Since the O’Farrell, Jones & Hyde line was the newest line of all, its gripmen had to drop the cable 22 times on every roundtrip, which is why Burgess wrote, “You are apt to earn your wages, on the Hyde Street Grip.”
End of the Line, 1955
We’re going to post photos from time to time that we think are iconic in one way or another. The Ocean Beach terminal of the N-line is an iconic place in general, at least to railfans, with that lonely loop and mission-style shelter hard by the sand dunes that form the last barrier to the Pacific (if you don’t count the public convenience station). (The city knew that most folks would reach the beach by streetcar back when Muni built its Sunset District lines, so there are matching bathrooms and tunnels under the Great Highway at Judah and Taraval.)
