77 Steuart St  

37.793807, -122.393623 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

San Francisco Railway museum. Furthest window from the entrance. Route description in the lower part of the window.
Largest in the world what? (3 words)
open swimming pool; открытый плавательный бассейн

Historical background

In the early 1980s in San Francisco, like in many other cities of the world, streetcars were considered an outdated means of transportation. Streetcar lines were closing. When the subway started running under Market street, the streetcar line was no longer needed.
This new technology progress was celebrated at the San Francisco Historic Trolley Festival. It used historic streetcars from several different countries, as well as a number of preserved San Francisco cars. The impetus behind the Trolley Festival was also that the city's famed cable car system, one of its biggest tourist attractions, was scheduled to be closed for more than a year and a half for renovation, starting in September 1982. The Trolley Festival was conceived as a temporary substitute tourist attraction during the cable car system's closure. However, its popularity was such that it was repeated in subsequent years, gradually expanded to additional months of the year, and even operated seven days a week in 1985. Each season, a few additional streetcars joined the festival fleet, adding variety and helping to maintain tourist interest.
The five seasons of Historic Trolley Festival operation helped to establish strong public and business support for the proposed full-time F-line streetcar service (an all-day, daily, year-round service) that ultimately came to fruition in 1995.
In 2000 the line extended two times and soon a second line was opened. The tickets for this type of transport cost only 2.50 dollars, just like on any other muni service in the city.

Present in routes of categories Lion-Mini, Lion

Passed by: 9/28 (32%).

By categories:

  • Lion: 8/21 (38%)
  • Lion-Mini: 1/7 (14%)