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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 ...
The franchise for what would become the Market Street Railway was granted in 1857 to Thomas Hayes. The line was the first railway to open in San Francisco, commencing service on July 4, 1860 as the Market Street Railroad Company. [2] [3] Traction was provided by steam power as steam dummy locomotives pulling a trailer car. [4]
It ran from Army Street (Now Cesar Chavez Street) and Potrero to a terminal inside Fort Mason, via Potrero, Division, 11th Street and Van Ness. In 1946 the line was extended along former Market Street Railway trackage on Bayshore and San Bruno to Arleta. The southern terminal was cut back to San Bruno and Wilde in 1947, and in 1948 the northern ...
Market Street Railway may refer to: Market Street Railway (nonprofit) , a nonprofit organization that supports the operation of the F Market historic streetcar line in San Francisco Market Street Railway (transit operator) , a former commercial streetcar operator in San Francisco
Cable car operations along Market Street began in 1888. Service was electrified in 1906. [4]In 1915, the San Francisco Municipal Railway started the F-Stockton route, which ran from Laguna (later Scott) and Chestnut Streets in the Marina down Stockton Street to 4th and Market Streets near Union Square, later extended to the Southern Pacific Depot (currently the Caltrain Depot) in 1947.
Market Street Railway was the first transit organization in San Francisco to run trackless trolleys, using nine coaches built by Brill in 1935 for the 33 line, numbered 51–59. Each Brill was 33 ft (10 m) long and seated 37; approximately half used traction motors from General Electric (GE) and the other half used Westinghouse (WH) motors.
The Market Street Railway had existed on the surface parallel to the subway's alignment in some form since 1860 with services terminating at the Ferry Building. [3] To alleviate traffic, plans for a tunnel under Market Street can be dated to at least 1912. [4] By 1918, there were four tracks running down the thoroughfare — two per direction. [3]
Market and 3rd Street (eastbound) and Market and Kearny (westbound) are a pair of one-way light rail stations in San Francisco, California, United States, serving the San Francisco Municipal Railway F Market & Wharves heritage railway line. They are located on Market Street at the intersections of 3rd Street and Kearny Street. The low-level ...