THE GS TRAM SITE

SAN FRANCISCO

CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES

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ROUTES

Operator: San Francisco Municipal Railway (MUNI)

STREETCAR ROUTES

F Fisherman's Wharf - Market Street - Castro
J Downtown (Embarcadero) - Market Street - Noe Valley - Balboa Park
K Downtown (Embarcadero) - Market Street - West Portal - Ocean Ave. - Balboa Park
L Downtown (Embarcadero) - Market Street - San Francisco Zoo
M Downtown (Embarcadero) - Market Street - West Portal - San Francisco State University - Ocean View - Balboa Park
N Caltrain Station - Downtown (Embarcadero) - Market Street - Ocean Beach
(S) (Downtown (Embarcadero) - Market Street - Castro)

CABLE CAR ROUTES

  C Financial District - Van Ness
PH Powell & Market - Hyde - Aquatic Park
PM Powell & Market - Mason - Fisherman's Wharf

BART (SUBWAY) ROUTES

RED Richmond – Berkeley - Oakland - Transbay Tube - Embarcadero - Market Street - Daly City/Colma
GREEN Fremont – Oakland Airport - Oakland - Transbay Tube - Embarcadero - Market Street - Daly City
ORANGE Richmond – Berkeley - Oakland - Oakland Airport - Fremont
YELLOW Pittsburg/Bay Point – Concord - Oakland - Transbay Tube - Embarcadero - Market Street - Daly City
BLUE Dublin/Pleasanton – Oakland Airport - Oakland - Transbay Tube - Embarcadero - Market Street - Daly City - San Franciso International Airport/Millbrae


CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM

NETWORK LENGTH

  • Streetcar lines: 42 km.
  • Cable car lines: 8 km.
  • BART (Subway) lines: 167 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.

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