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Learn how we helped save SF’s streetcars

2026-03-07T22:12:46Z

There is nothing like San Francisco's famed F-line heritage streetcar service, beloved by residents and a facet of Muni's operations in which the transit agency rightfully takes great pride. But how did it come to be decades ago, and how is it sustained today?

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Black barrier-breakers in San Francisco transit

2026-02-02T16:36:53Z

San Francisco didn’t always have a reputation for openness and inclusion. The city’s past has been marred by discrimination in many forms. For example, before World War II, all but a small number of city employees were white.

NEW! Live cable car map

2026-01-20T18:29:15Z

Thanks to Market Street Railway Board member and transit activist Kat Siegal, with help from Chris Arvin, you can now see where every cable car is on the street -- in REAL TIME!

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Love for our museum

2026-01-04T21:07:24Z

Our San Francisco Railway Museum is picking up kudos from visitors and influencers alike.

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Watch this great F-line documentary

2025-11-08T03:48:16Z

Noted Bay Area journalist Joe Fonzi's 30-minute on the history and operation of the F-line is now online. Watch it here. (If for any reason the link doesn't work, URL is www.ktvu.com/video/1736822. The doc has some great historic footage, including the 1980s Trolley Festivals, engaging interviews with F-line operators, maintainers, and riders...including Mayor Daniel Lurie, who tells what he thinks about the F-line.

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ENCORE SHOWING of F-line documentary Nov. 2 on Channel 2

2025-10-31T22:20:24Z

UPDATE: Joe Fonzi's great 30-minute documentary on the F-line will indeed be repeated on Channel 2 on SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, at 12:30 pm, just before NFL football on Fox. If you haven't seen it yet, either watch or record it; it's well worth your time, with great interviews featuring operators and maintainers of the streetcars, wonderful historical and current footage of both PCCs and vintage cars, and an interview with Mayor Lurie.

The 22 Fillmore: a line to love since 1895

2025-10-12T23:32:10Z

Muni's 22-Fillmore line is one of San Francisco’s longest-lived and most important transit routes, gaining additional popularity even now, 130 years after it was built.

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Boat Tram sails most Fridays/Saturdays thru Oct. 11

2025-10-04T23:37:32Z

"Special Guest Streetcar" service has been operating on Fridays and Saturdays this summer. As it wraps up for the season, the very popular 91-year old Blackpool "Boat Tram" is most frequently operated, and is scheduled to be out on the Friday and Saturday of Fleet Week (October 10-11) Its first trip leaves Castro and Market around 12:30 p.m. and operates through about 6:30. You can see exactly where it is on our live streetcar map.

Ride into the past: Muni Heritage Weekend Sept. 20-21

2025-09-19T00:25:02Z

Muni Heritage Weekend, jointly sponsored by us and Muni's parent, SFMTA, is ON again this year.

Members remember

2025-03-21T11:15:41Z

Streetcars and cable cars have stirred the imaginations of countless young San Franciscans for 150 years. Here, lightly edited, are childhood memories of three of our members. Market Street Railway continues to work to interest today’s young San Franciscans in the importance of clean, safe, efficient public transit.

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