San Francisco Railway Museum

The San Francisco Railway Museum Entrance

The San Francisco Railway Museum is a local railway history museum located in the South of Market area of San Francisco.

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 Steuart Street F line stop, catty-corner 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 produces unique 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.

Current Exhibit

The current exhibit (scheduled to run through April 30, 2008) entitled Positively Third Street, features photographs that show how public transportation supported economic growth and development in the South of Market, Bayview and Hunter's Point neighborhoods 100 years before the launch of the city's new T line.

External links

• San Francisco Railway Museum official website
• Market Street Railway includes news and information on Muni's entire fleet of historic streetcars and cable cars
• Let's hear it for the old F line San Francisco Chronicle article, ran 10/09/06