5-McAllister film
Intended just for our members, here’s a bonus from the 2014 No. 3 edition of Inside Track: rare motion picture film of streetcars on the 5-McAllister line, edited and narrated by Market Street Railway’s president, Rick Laubscher.
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Now THAT’S a Storm!
STORMAGEDDON! STORMPOCYLPSE!
Dressed for the Season
Header for Cablecars Page
Cable cars were invented by Andrew S. Hallidie, a Scots-born mining engineer. The story goes that he saw horses struggling to pull a railcar filled with passengers up one of San Francisco’s hills and decided to adapt his mining conveyor technology to pull rail cars, by means of an endless loop of cable under the street, between the tracks. He opened the world’s first cable car line, on Clay Street in San Francisco, in August 1873.
‘Tis the Season
Special Sale at Our Museum
Gratitude: Big Picture and Closeup
Thanks for the Green!
One hundred Thanksgivings ago, Muni was laying streetcar track at the spot you see here, and finishing up the Stockton Tunnel in the background, all to create the original F-line, the F-Stockton, which was initially built to carry crowds to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Shiny Museum for Your Shopping Spree
Flagship Powell Cable Car Slips Into Service
Without fanfare, the latest product of Muni’s able cable car shops has rejoined the fleet after a full restoration and makeover.
