This magnet represents a favorite of the vintage bus fleet. Sometimes referred to as a “Baby White”, this small gasoline bus spent a good part of its working life going up and down Telegraph Hill on the 39-Coit line. Magnet measures 4″ long. Learn more about it here. Read More……
Final installment of our six part series on Muni’s birth and first century.
This pin bears our signature Logo and Motto – Market Street Railway: Preserving Historic Transit in San Francisco, and is fashioned after that of our namesake, the private Market Street Railway Company, which merged with the San Francisco Municipal Railway in 1944. Measures 1.125″h x 1″w, butterfly clasp on back.
The mission of today’s non-profit Market Street Railway is to work in partnership with SFMTA to keep our transit history alive by supporting full historic streetcar service on the F-line, improving our one-of-a-kind Cable Car system, and “keeping the Past Present in the Future” with our San Francisco Railway Museum, our publications and our events. Read More……
Fifth of six installments in our history of Muni’s birth and first century
Fourth of six installments in our history of Muni’s birth and first century
The most recent of San Francisco’s modern LRVs, used on the Muni Metro/J, K, L, M & N lines. Read More……
Third of six installments in our history of Muni’s birth and first century
Second of six installments in our history of Muni’s birth and first century
Muni didn’t build the first trolley coach line in San Francisco. That honor went to competitor Market Street Railway (our namesake), which converted its 33-line streetcar over Twin Peaks in 1935 to use trolley coaches (Brills, of which none survives). But Muni was aware of the advantages of trolley coaches, especially their hill climbing ability and their need for only a single driver, instead of a crew of two, as streetcars retired.
The GM “Fishbowl” buses Muni bought in 1969 and 1970 did the job all right, but their loud V8 engines and even louder “Jake brakes”, which sounded like machine guns when applied downhill, ticked off people along their routes, especially in quieter residential areas. So, Muni decided to finish replacing its venerable fleet of Macks with a smaller, quieter bus.
