Hop onboard a 150-year-old cable car at Powell Plaza Tuesdays and Saturdays, 7 a.m.-7 p.m., weather permitting. Visitors can take photos, explore the vehicles up close, learn some history about the...
Hop onboard a 150-year-old cable car at Powell Plaza Tuesdays and Saturdays, 7 a.m.-7 p.m., weather permitting. Visitors can take photos, explore the vehicles up close, learn some history about the...
Hop onboard a 150-year-old cable car at Powell Plaza Tuesdays and Saturdays, 7 a.m.-7 p.m., weather permitting. Visitors can take photos, explore the vehicles up close, learn some history about the...
Hop onboard a 150-year-old cable car at Powell Plaza Tuesdays and Saturdays, 7 a.m.-7 p.m., weather permitting. Visitors can take photos, explore the vehicles up close, learn some history about the...
Hop onboard a 150-year-old cable car at Powell Plaza Tuesdays and Saturdays, 7 a.m.-7 p.m., weather permitting. Visitors can take photos, explore the vehicles up close, learn some history about the...
Highlights from the 52nd Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest, held July 9, 2015, in San Francisco's Union Square.
Highlights from the 52nd Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest, held July 9, 2015, in San Francisco's Union Square.
The Cable Car Bell Ringing competition is back. Clang clanging into San Francisco’s Union Square from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 10, this event is a free and fun chance to hear the one-of...
All aboard? Ding! Ding! A familiar sound is in the air again. It's time to experience San Francisco once more with a ride on one of the city's landmark cable cars. When was the last time you were on...
Cable Car 23 descends the Hyde Street hill near Chestnut Street on Aug. 20, 1973. Have you ever wondered what it takes to keep Muni's cable cars on the road year after year? In the first of a series...
As we close in on Pride weekend, we bring you the history behind motorized Cable Car 62, Muni's readymade "float" that will be in the midst of the parade action this Sunday. Motorized Cable Car 62...
At the corner of California and Powell Streets stands a diminutive but important building that has been in use for well over 100 years. This octagonal signal tower controls the crossing of the Powell...
This April 18th marks 112 years since the 1906 Earthquake and the devastating fires that followed. Little do many San Franciscans realize, the fate of our beloved cable cars was significantly shaped...
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) and its nonprofit preservation partner, Market Street Railway, have joined together with a dozen organizations, including business and...
Cable cars are in intermittent service during the month of August while we test them on all cable car routes. You are welcome to ride them when available for free. Please do not purchase cable car...
Muni's Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest has been a crowd pleaser for its entire history of more than 50 years. Tonight, cable car operators will step up to ring their hearts out in the preliminary...
Seventy-five years ago, San Francisco’s cable cars were viewed as more of a costly nuisance. A few city leaders wanted to tear out the 1870s-era transit system of wooden vehicles towed by an...
Starting May 2, for about 10 days In support of the Cable Car Gearbox Rehabilitation Project, Muni will run bus shuttles for the Powell and Mason cable car lines between the turntable at Powell &...
August 2, 2023, marks the 150th anniversary of the world’s first successful cable railway, born right here in San Francisco. To celebrate the occasion, we bring you the story of Andrew Hallidie and...
Beginning in the new year, our Cable Car and Passport customers will see a new fare increase. Tickets for our Single Ride Cable Car will increase by $1. Prior to that, Cable Car tickets have not...
Cable car grip Willa Johnson. Photo taken Dec. 2, 2013. Willa Johnson’s name is indelibly etched into San Francisco transportation history. With her certification as a cable car grip on April 12, 2010...
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which manages all transportation in the city, including the Municipal Railway (Muni), will host the 54th Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest...
For eight days starting on Friday, Sept. 22, the California Cable Car Line will be served by buses during crucial maintenance work to preserve the cable car system.