ROUTES
Operator: San Francisco Municipal Railway (MUNI)
STREETCAR ROUTES
| B |
Transbay Terminal - Market Street - Geary - Ocean |
| C |
Transbay Terminal - Market Street - Geary - California - Sutro |
| D |
Ferries - Market Street - Van Ness - Union - Presidio |
| F |
Chestnut Str. - Stockton - SP Depot |
| H |
Bay - Van Ness - Potrero - San Bruno |
| J |
Ferries - Market Street - Church |
| K |
Transbay Terminal - Market Street - West Portal - Ocean Ave.- Mission |
| L |
Transbay Terminal - Market Street - Taraval - San Francisco Zoo |
| M |
Transbay Terminal - Market Street - West Portal - Ocean View |
| N |
Transbay Terminal - Market Street - Judah - Ocean Beach |
CABLE CAR ROUTES
| 59 |
Powell & Market - Mason - Fisherman's Wharf |
| 60 |
Powell & Market - Jackson/Washington - Pacific Heights |
There may have been 2 or 3 other, unnumbered routes.
Operator: Key System
INTERURBAN ROUTES
Routes from the Transbay Terminal across the Bay Bridge to Oakland and beyond.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM
NETWORK LENGTH
- Streetcar lines: ? km.
- Cable car lines: ? km.
- Interurban lines: ? km.
HISTORY
- Streetcars: (horse-powered) 4 July 1860 - 1882; (electric) 1892 - today.
- Cable-cars: 1 Sept. 1873 - today.
- BART (Subway): 11 Sept. 1972 - today.
- Key System (Interurbans): 26 Oct. 1903 - (Into San Francisco only after the opening of the Bay Street Bridge on 12 Nov. 1936) - 20 Apr. 1958.
GAUGE
- Streetcars: 1435 mm.
- Cable-cars: 1067 mm.
- BART (Subway): 1676 mm.
TRAM PRESERVATION
The San Francisco Railway Museum displays many relics of the streetcar and cable car history of the city. The
Market Street Railway operates many historic streetcars over actual line F of the San Francisco streetcar system (Muni). The cable car system has its own museum at the
Cable Car Museum at Washington and Mason.
SOURCES
PRINT
- "Los Angeles and San Francisco", The Modern Tramway, Nov. 1949 (12:143), p.221-224.
- Currington, B. "San Francisco Municipal Railway modernisation (Part I)", Modern Tramway & Light Rail Transit, Oct. 1984 (47:155), p.339-347.
- Rice, W. "San Francisco rail is moving forward", Tramways & Urban Transit, Sept. 1998 (61:729), p.336-339.
- Russell, M. "San Francisco's decade of achievement", Tramways & Urban Transit, Apr. 2010 (73: 868), p.156-157.
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