Market Street Railway is a non-profit organization with 1000 members, founded in 1976. Our mission: Preserving Historic Transit in San Francisco.
We receive no government money whatever. We rely instead on private donations and membership dues to help keep San Francisco’s past present in the future. Please click here to learn how to help.
We advocate for historic streetcar and cable car service improvements and expansion, educate people about the importance of attractive transit in creating vibrant, livable cities, and celebrate the wonderful historic streetcars, cable cars, and buses owned and operated by Muni, a service of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA).
We also operate the free San Francisco Railway Museum across from the Ferry Building at 77 Steuart Street, currently open Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, 12 Noon – 5 p.m.
Our group’s leaders were the driving force in making vintage streetcars a full-time part of the San Francisco scene in the 1980s and 1990s.
This website, our quarterly member magazine, Inside Track, our monthly electronic newsletter, and our social media outlets bring you the latest news and information about San Francisco’s historic streetcars and cable cars.
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Hard to muster any comment aside from … OMG! I cannot imagine the joy and hilarity of being so far from SF and seeing an F-Market car piggybacking on a trailer. I also can’t help but imagine the thrill of getting the photo. I see it going down something like, “Holy crap! It’s a PCC! No, no, don’t get right beside it — it’s too big for the frame. Yeah, right about there. Got it!” Thanks for this!
I imagine that there were quite a few double takes along the route, given the near pristine condition of the car, as rail fans who’d passed or been passed by the semi met it at various pit stops along the way. Of course, there’s also the idea of all the folks along the road who’ve seen other cars, in states of advanced decay though show-room-new condition, pass along the road, and all of them wondering just what sort of transit system exists in San Francisco.