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Author : Rick Laubscher
Publisher : Heyday Books
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 35,41 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781597142786
The only full-color illustrated guide to the COLORFUL vintage streetcars and cable cars that are a top tourist attraction
Author : Kenneth C. Springirth
Publisher : America Through Time
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,91 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781634990011
San Francisco's first cable car line opened in 1873. The successful development of the electric streetcar by Frank Sprague in 1888 plus the 1906 San Francisco earthquake resulted in the decline of the cable car system. Concerned that the cable car system would vanish, San Francisco resident Friedel Klussmann rallied public support to save the cars. The 1982 shutdown of the cable car lines for their rebuilding led to Trolley Festivals beginning in 1983 until 1987 using a variety of historic streetcars on Market Street. Those successful festivals resulted in rebuilding the streetcar track on Market Street and the establishment of the F streetcar line in 1995 using Presidents' Conference Committee streetcars purchased from Philadelphia and refurbished in a variety of paint schemes that represented cities that once had streetcar service. In addition, the line features vintage Peter Witt streetcars from Milan, Italy; a boat like streetcar from England; and other unique cars. During 2000, the F line was extended to Fisherman's wharf and has become one of the most successful streetcar lines in the United States. This book is a photographic essay of "San Francisco's Magnificent Streetcars" along with its historic cable cars and hill climbing trolley coaches.
Author : Charles A. Smallwood
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 28,7 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Electric railroads
ISBN :
Author : Zachary Malott
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 24,61 MB
Release : 2009-12
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781442188815
San Francisco is home to the largest working collection of vintage streetcars in the world. One of the city's most recognizable and beloved attractions, the streetcar line which runs through the heart of the city serves more than 20,000 riders a day. San Francisco's Market Street Railway continues to collect vintage cars from all over the world and to lovingly restore them to service as part of this rolling museum that pays tribute to cities who have operated streetcar lines in the past and present. This delightful book showcases this historic fleet with more than 120 pages of beautiful color photos of currently restored and active streetcars. Each car is introduced with a paragraph describing its history. The book also explores the history of the streetcar as urban transit, both nationally and within San Francisco, and also tells the story of how this amazing "Museum in Motion" came to exist as one of San Francisco's most famous attractions.
Author : Virginia Lee Burton
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 25,31 MB
Release : 1997-03-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0547422326
Maybelle was a cable car a San Francisco cable car. . . She rang her gong and sang her song from early morn till late at night. . . . By recounting the actual events in San Francisco's effort to keep the city's cable cars running, this classic story illustrates how the voice of the people can be heard in the true spirit of democracy. Virginia Lee Burton's original art for Maybelle the Cable Car was retrieved from the archives of the San Francisco Public Library to re-create this edition with all the vibrant charm of the original, which was published in 1952.
Author : Clyde Wahrhaftig
Publisher : American Geophysical Union
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 37,86 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Science
ISBN : 0875902251
Author : Woody LaBounty
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,1 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Housing
ISBN : 9780982346105
In the 1890s, a bohemian settlement erupted at San Francisco's Ocean Beach as writers, judges, and lady bicyclists arranged, combined, and stacked old transit cars to create one of the quirkiest communities in the city's history. The lush design recalls an antique scrapbook with hundreds of rare images.
Author : Robert Townley
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 25,69 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738530086
It's strange to think that an electric commuter rail line rivaling BART in efficiency, speed, and comfort ran over 100 years ago between San Francisco and San Mateo, but run it did. The 40 Line, or San Mateo Interurban, began in 1892 with an initial segment operating between Market and Steuart Streets out to the county limits on San Jose Avenue. Three years later, the line reached Baden in present-day South San Francisco, and by 1903 service was opened all the way to downtown San Mateo. During the line's heyday, there was talk of extending it down the peninsula from San Mateo to Palo Alto to connect with the Peninsular Railway to San Jose. The 1906 earthquake put this plan on hold. Following much the same route as today's Mission Street, El Camino Real, and Caltrain, the San Mateo Interurban carried over four million passengers a year along its main and spur lines until 1949, when the system was shut down amidst much fanfare.
Author : Emiliano Echeverria
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 45,21 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738530475
San Francisco's cable cars are an internationally recognized symbol of the city, but they also have a long and fractious history. There are actually three cable lines in operation today: the California Street line and the two Powell Street lines-- the Powell-Mason and Powell-Hyde. The Powell Street lines have been the subject of much controversy through the years, due to a complex lineage of private and public ownership. Cable cars on Powell Street began in 1888, operating under the Ferries and Cliff House Railway Company and utilizing the same basic design pioneered by Andrew Hallidie in 1873. Among the story's twists and turns are the line's actual routes following the 1906 earthquake, which caused heavy damage and forced major repairs. Post-quake, United Railroads was able to replace many of the cable car lines with streetcars, including a part of the Powell Street system. San Francisco at one time had eight separate cable car operators. Gradually most were replaced by streetcars, buses, and trolley buses, given the complexities and expense of cable systems. The Powell lines were taken over by the city in 1944, but the mayor tried to abandon them in 1947. The public disapproved of this move, and since then the Powell Street line has only grown in stature and its importance to San Francisco.
Author : Peter Ehrlich
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 24,67 MB
Release : 2019-08
Category :
ISBN : 9780915348510
The reader is taken on a joyously meandering ride over a thirty year span, telling how San Francisco's F-line came about, through the efforts of a multitude of San Franciscans including visionaries, planners and engineers, politicians and community activists, transit operators and everyday transit riders. The idea of vintage streetcar operations was born in the 1970s, and then becomes tangible with the "Trolley Festivals" in the 1980s. It took another 20 years for the "F-Line" to become a permanent part of San Francisco's transit scene, and that saga is told as well.