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The museum is located at the Don Chee Way and Steuart Station, across the street from the Ferry Building. Admission to the museum is free. In addition to the permanent collection of San Francisco railway artifacts from Market Street Railway Company and San Francisco Municipal Railway, the museum features exhibits such as a retrospective on the ...
Barron Park Garden Railway – Palo Alto [43] Golden Gate Model Railroad Club – San Francisco [44] Golden Gate Lionel Railroad Club- San Mateo [45] West Bay Model Railroad Association – Menlo Park
This list of museums in the San Francisco Bay Area is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
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Melbourne tram 648 on Market Street during the first San Francisco Historic Trolley Festival. Founded in 1976, Market Street Railway members created the successful San Francisco Historic Trolley Festivals of the 1980s that resulted in the permanent return of historic streetcars to Market Street in the form of the F Market & Wharves line — the most popular service of its kind in all of North ...
A railway museum is a museum that explores the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, including: locomotives (steam, diesel, and electric), railway cars, trams, and railway signalling equipment. They may also operate historic equipment on museum grounds.
By 1953 the building opened as a museum. [7] The original location of the house (across the street) contains condominiums that were built on the property in 1955. [7] McElroy Octagon House, Feusier Octagon House, and the Marine Exchange Lookout Station [8] [9] [10] at Land's End are the only three remaining octagon houses in the city. [2] [11] [12]
A private company constructed a new road called Point Lobos Avenue. By the 1860s, a horse-drawn stagecoach made the trip every Sunday from crowded downtown San Francisco out to Lands End. During the 1880s, millionaire Adolph Sutro constructed a passenger steam train from downtown to Lands End for the affordable fare of 5¢. [3]