San Francisco Railway Museum
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

The San Francisco Railway Museum is a local railway museum located in the South of Market area of San Francisco. This small museum features exhibits on the antique
streetcars A tram (called a streetcar or trolley in North America) is a rail vehicle that travels on tramway tracks on public urban streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way. The tramlines or networks operated as public transport are ...
of the F Market & Wharves and national landmark cable cars that continue to run along the city's major arteries. 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 The Market Street Railway Company was a commercial streetcar and bus operator in San Francisco. The company was named after the famous Market Street (San Francisco), Market Street of that city, which formed the core of its transportation network ...
and San Francisco Municipal Railway, the museum features exhibits such as a retrospective on the 1906 earthquake and a replicated end of the now extinct MSR '100-Class streetcar'. The museum is a project of the nonprofit Market Street Railway, Muni's historic transportation advocacy group and was opened on October 7, 2006.


See also

*
List of San Francisco Bay Area trains This is a list of trains and train museums in the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California in the United States.Lists of San Francisco Bay Area rail related resources can often be found at the "Links" page of a club or museum website. Exampl ...
*
San Francisco Cable Car Museum The Cable Car Museum is a free museum in the Nob Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Located at 1201 Mason Street, it contains historical and explanatory exhibits on the San Francisco cable car system, which can itself be regarded as a ...


References


External links


Market Street Railway
includes news and information on Muni's entire fleet of historic streetcars and cable cars Museums in San Francisco Railroad museums in California San Francisco Municipal Railway South of Market, San Francisco Street railway museums in the United States {{US-rail-museum-stub