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Market and Sanchez station is a light rail station in San Francisco, California, United States, serving the San Francisco Municipal Railway F Market & Wharves heritage railway line. It is located on Market Street at the intersections of 15th Street and Sanchez Street.
After being bought and sold several times, the line came under the ownership of the United Railroads of San Francisco, under whom it was finally built out to San Mateo with service starting on December 31, 1902. [50] Starting at the corner of Steuart and Market in San Francisco, the tracks went southeast on Steuart and turned right on Harrison.
Muni Metro is a light rail system serving San Francisco, California, United States.Operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni), a part of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), Muni Metro served an average of 157,700 passengers per weekday in the fourth quarter of 2019, making it the second-busiest light rail system in the United States.
The Bay Area hosts several regional commuter rail operations, as well as inter-city rail.. Commuter and intercity. Altamont Corridor Express (ACE) [2]; Amtrak (California Zephyr, Capitol Corridor, Coast Starlight, and San Joaquins) [3]
Several ferry routes operate between the North Bay and San Francisco, from terminals located in Angel Island, Larkspur, Sausalito, Tiburon and Vallejo. The Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit , a commuter rail line from Larkspur to Cloverdale, was approved by voters in November 2008. Passenger service began between the Sonoma County Airport ...
The San Francisco Belt Railroad was a short-line railroad along the Embarcadero in San Francisco, California. It began as the State Belt Railroad in 1889, and was renamed when the city bought the Port of San Francisco in 1969. As a state owned enterprise, the railroad asserted several unsuccessful claims to immunity from federal regulation. [1]
The Pacific and Atlantic Railroad Company (P&A) was founded on September 6, 1851, with the goal of building a railroad between San Francisco and San Jose. [2] The route was surveyed and published by the end of 1851, but the P&A was unable to raise funds locally; when the P&A turned to banking houses in New York and England, they were told that no funds could be disbursed without first ...
United Railroads of San Francisco opened their Hayes and Masonic streetcar line on June 10, 1906, running from the Ferry Building to Third and Parnassus. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It acquired the number 6 in 1909, being the sixth of the United Railroads' lines to turn off Market Street. [ 4 ]