Postcard: San Francisco railcar 1051 (2025)

Added May 12, 2026

Archive: Henrik Boye.
Publisher: MUNI.
Date: 2025.
City: San Francisco (United States).

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San Francisco railcar 1051, manufacturer Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company, type PCC, signed line F Market Castro.

San Francisco railcar 1010, manufacturer Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company, type PCC.

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Postcard: San Francisco tourist line E-Embarcadero Steetcar with railcar 1008 near Market & Sanchez (1969)CTP #6 San Francisco, Ca # 703 Trolleycoach Marmon - Herrington Model - TC 44 Seats - 44 Built - 1949 # 1008 PCC Streetcar Model - Class D Built - 1948 Builder - St. Louis Car Co. Seats - 59 Controls - G.E.-FC Trucks - St. Louis B-3 Brakes - WH-Electric San Francisco - Marmon-Herrington T.C. & St. Louis PCC streetcar.By Bill MacDonald, Henrik Boye, J. Barnard Photographer - 1969.

Postcard: San Francisco tourist line E-Embarcadero Steetcar with railcar 42 near 2nd & King (1984)CTP #13 Edmonton, AB #42 - St. Louis 1912 - At St. Louis, Car Co. St. Louis, Missouri U.S.A, Arch Roof, Brakes - Air Westinghouse D1-EF, Truks - St. Louis 47-B-4'6'' Wheel base -, 34" Wheels Controller Motor Gear Ratio =, K-6-FE 80A (4) 40H8-69:17, Weight: 42,000 1 BV, Total Length 0 45'0", Height = 8'6", Double end - Wood Steel reinforced, Seats = 36 Coach No.42.By Henrik Boye, J. Barnard Photographer - 1984.

Postcard: San Francisco railcar 3557 at United Railroads Geneva Carhouse (1989)Historic Trolleys of San Francisco: Hamburg, West Germany tram 3557 poses at Geneva Yard, with the historic United Railroads Geneva Carhouse office building in the background on June 20, 1989. Tram 3557 operated in Hamburg from 1952 to 1978.By Henrik Boye, Peter Ehrlich, Samuel R. Ganczaruk - June 20, 1989.

Postcard: San Francisco F-Market & Wharves with railcar 228 at Market & Buchanan (1986)Historic Trolleys of San Francisco: Blackpool, England "Boat" Tram 228 being readied for service on May 26, 1986 at Market and Duboce streets. The San Francico Branch of the U.S. Mint is to be seen in the background.By Henrik Boye, Jeff Morcau, Samuel R. Ganczaruk - May 26, 1986.

Postcard: San Francisco tourist line E-Embarcadero Steetcar with railcar 1704 near Church Avenue & Duboce (1985)San Francisco, California, U.S.A. Photo: Bill MacDonald San Francisco, California, U.S.A. #1704 - St. Louis PCC - Built Street car. Location Church & Dubcoe - Sept/85 Features: Length: 46'5" Width: 8'4" Height: 10'3" Seats: 54 Total Weight 33.180 lbsBy Bill MacDonald, Henrik Boye, J. Barnard Photographer - September 1985.

Calendar: San Francisco F-Market & Wharves with railcar 162 on 17th & Castro (2023)Muni "Iron Monster" 162 turns onto Market Street at Castro l Steve Ferrario photo June 2023 As soon as it poened in 1912, Muni began expanding, buying 125 new streetcars in 1914 from the Jewett Car Co. of Ohio, including two that survive: Car 130, painted in 1940s blue and yellow livery, and this one, painted in its the green and cream "Wings" livery it wore at its 1958 retirement. Car 162 was purchased by Market Street Railway and returned to Muni 20 years ago. Car 162 was changed from its original gray and red livery into blue and gold around 1940, then painted into the late 1940s. here it is on the J-Church line at Market and Geary in 1952, sharing the scene with two vehicles built by St. Louis Car Co.: a double-ended "Torpedo" PCC and an 8-Market trolley coach. The 8-line buses were replaced by F-line streetcars in 1995. MSR ArchiveBy Henrik Boye, San Francisco Railway Museum, Steve Ferrario - June 2023.

San Francisco tourist line F-Market & Wharves with railcar 496 near Don Chee Way & Steuart (2010)By Michael Olsen.
July 6, 2010.

Coasters from San Francisco Railway Museum, the back (2023)Historic Streetcars in San Francisco MUNI San Francisco Municipal Railway Preserving Historic Transit in San Francisco Market Street RailwayBy Henrik Boye, San Francisco Railway Museum - March 14, 2023.

San Francisco F-Market & Wharves with railcar 1010 in Market & 5th (2025)By Else Skovgaard Holmfred.
December 28, 2025.

Sign: San Francisco inside Railway Museum (2025)See how they run More different types of trasit vehicles have rum along the steets of San Francisco than almost any other city. The Sutter Street Railroad Co. operated some distinctive horsecars designed by owner Henry Casebolt in the 1870s. The car with the round body (left) could rotate on its truck, so at the end of the line, the horse could be walked around to reverse direction without unhitching and rehitching. The car marked 'To Seal Rock Road Direct' (right) features decorative oval windows that let standing passengers see out...very similar to the steamliner PCC streetcars running on Market Street an The Embarcadero today. The Sutter company later upgraded almost all its routes to cable cars. The Powell Street Railway Company's fleet included some open cars that operated on pleasant days. Looking at the heavy wool uniforms of the crew, we hope it wasn't too hot when this shot was taken-somwhere around 1890-probably at what was then the western terminal of Washington-Jackson line, at Central Avenue (now Presidio Avenue) & California Street. San Francisco's early electric streetcars generally followed the 'California-type' design, named for California Street cable cars-operable from either end, with an enclosed center section and open end sections. Adolph Sutro built a streetscar line in 1896 to serve his recreational complex at the city's northwest corner neal Seal Rockks, Sutro Baths, and the Cliff House (the fanciful structure in the background, which burned to the ground in 1907). San Francisco added trolley buses to its variety of transit vehicles in 1935, when Market Street Railway Co. converted the rollercoaster 33-line across Twin Peaks from streetcars. Trolley buses can negotiate much steeper grades than streetcars (and most motor buses as well) with their combination of powerful electric motors and rubber-tired traction. Muni's original E-Union line used high-traction single-truck streetcars to climb grades too steep for conventional streetcars, but even these cars had to detour arund the steep Union Street grades between Van Ness and Larkin. Muni's first trolley buses, purchased in 1941, handled the Union Street hill with ease. Our nonprofit Market Street Railway has preserved one of these orginal Muni trolley coaches, No. 506. When Mayor Roger Lapham wanted to get rid of Powell Street cable cars in 1947, trolley bus technology would have been the best choice for the steep hills. But without funding for the wires and power supply, Muni bought 10 gasoline buses with two large engines that were supposed to work in sync to push the bus over the hills. Lapham lost, of course, and the buses, assigned to other routes, never worked very well, requiring removal of one of the engines. One of these buses (No. 0163)-historic for what it almost did-is preserved by Muni. Identical looking trolley buses by the same builder, Twin Coach, were mainstays of many Muni lines for a quarter-century, until the mid-1970s.By Silas Boye Nissen - September 6, 2025.

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