We thank you for being a member of Market Street Railway. Your membership is very important to keeping the past present in the future. The wonderful historic streetcars in San Francisco didn’t just happen on their own. The support of Market Street Railway members is what made our successful advocacy for the streetcars possible.
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.
The definitive way to display your love of San Francisco’s historic streetcars. Forty-five vintage beauties on a single poster. Read More……
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Cable Cars have no engine or motor on the cars themselves. The power source is centralized in the cable car barn and powerhouse at Washington and Mason Streets (also home to the Cable Car Museum). There, powerful electric motors (originally a stationary steam-powered engine) drive giant winding wheels that pull cables through a trench beneath the street, centered under the cable car tracks (that’s what’s in that slot between the tracks).
The 1934 “boat tram,” No. 228, is the most requested streetcar for charters, but you can reserve any operating streetcar in Muni’s fleet.
