The San Francisco Railway Museum is a local railway museum located in the South of Market area of San Francisco.[1]
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 A streetcar about to pass the museum entrance on Steuart Street | |
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| Established | 2006 |
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| Location | 77 Steuart St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA |
| Coordinates | 37°47′38″N 122°23′37″W / 37.79382°N 122.39361°W |
| Type | Railway museum |
| Website | http://www.streetcar.org/museum/ |
This small museum features exhibits on the antique streetcars 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 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'.[2]
The museum is a project of the nonprofit Market Street Railway,[3] Muni's historic transportation advocacy group and was opened on October 7, 2006.[4]
See also
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References
edit- ^ "San Francisco Railway Museum". San Francisco Travel. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
- ^ "All aboard: San Francisco Railway Museum | BARTable". bartable.bart.gov. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
- ^ "San Francisco Market Street Railway | We keep San Francisco's Vintage Streetcars on Track". Market Street Railway. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
- ^ Rubenstein, Steve (9 October 2006). "SAN FRANCISCO / Let's hear it for the old F line / Market Street Railway museum opens across the Embarcadero from Ferry Building". SFGATE. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
External links
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- Market Street Railway includes news and information on Muni's entire fleet of historic streetcars and cable cars
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