A Fleet History of the San Francisco Municipal Railway

Author: Paul Bignardi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781733576703
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Book Description
A Fleet History of the San Francisco Municipal Railway is a book that lists every transit vehicle that has been used in regular Muni service since 1912. The format includes a listing of key data for each vehicle, such as size, passenger capacity, manufacturer /cost and years of service, a short summary of the service history of the vehicle, and a photo (if available). All four modes are covered: rail (streetcar and LRV), bus, trolley bus and cable car, with one section covering each mode. Two additional sections include information on all Muni operations facilities, and a figures and graphics section. The figures and graphics section includes information on the four modes of transit, plus information on historical data in the areas of ridership, fares, farebox recovery, logo and agency structure and leadership. A short summary history section precedes the fleet history sections, and a photo credits table is included along with the blbilograpy. The completed document represents the first compilation of many of these pieces of information in almost 40 years. With over 200 pages and over 400 photographs, it is an excellent reference and history book both for experts and for people with a casus interest in the history of San Francisco Municipal Railway.

The People's Railway

Author: Anthony Perles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description

San Francisco's Municipal Railway

Author: Grant Ute
Publisher: Imaginary Lines, Inc.
ISBN: 9780738575803
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 158

Book Description
On December 30, 1909, following the passage of the bond issue allowing construction of San Francisco's Municipal Railway to begin, Mayor Edward Robeson Taylor gushed, "This is great . . . The Geary Street road will now be built and run by the people and for the people. This marks an epoch. It means civic freedom. . . . Some day our children's children will look back with wonder at the things we have stood for and suffered. Public utilities run . . . by the people . . . will give service to the public.

History of Public Transit in San Francisco, 1850-1948

Author: San Francisco (Calif.). Technical Committee of the Departments of City Planning, Public Works, Public Utilities, and Police
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 158

Book Description

Metro Maps of the World

Author: Mark Ovenden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Maybelle the Cable Car

Author: Virginia Lee Burton
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547422326
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description
Maybelle was a cable car a San Francisco cable car. . . She rang her gong and sang her song from early morn till late at night. . . . By recounting the actual events in San Francisco's effort to keep the city's cable cars running, this classic story illustrates how the voice of the people can be heard in the true spirit of democracy. Virginia Lee Burton's original art for Maybelle the Cable Car was retrieved from the archives of the San Francisco Public Library to re-create this edition with all the vibrant charm of the original, which was published in 1952.

BART

Author: Michael C. Healy
Publisher: Heyday.ORIM
ISBN: 1597143812
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 426

Book Description
An insider’s “indispensible” behind-the-scenes history of the transit system of San Francisco and surrounding counties (Houston Chronicle). In the first-ever history book about BART, longtime agency spokesman Michael C. Healy gives an insider’s account of the rapid transit system’s inception, hard-won approval, construction, and operations, warts and all. With a master storyteller’s wit and sharp attention to detail, Healy recreates the politically fraught venture to bring a new kind of public transit to the West Coast. What emerges is a sense of the individuals who made (and make) BART happen. From tales of staying up until 3:00 a.m. with BART pioneers Bill Stokes and Jack Everson to hear the election results for the rapid transit vote to stories of weathering scandals, strikes, and growing pains, this look behind the scenes of an iconic, seemingly monolithic structure reveals people at their most human—and determined to change the status quo. “The Metro. The T. The Tube. The world's most famous subway systems are known by simple monikers, and San Francisco's BART belongs in that class. Michael C. Healy delivers a tour-de-force telling of its roots, hard-fought approval, and challenging construction that will delight fans of American urban history.”—Doug Most, author of The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway

Inside Muni

Author: John Henry McKane
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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San Francisco Lithographer

Author: Robert Joseph Chandler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780806144108
Category : African American artists
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This biography by a distinguished California historian gives an underappreciated artist and his work recognition long overdue. Focusing on Grafton Tyler Brown's lithography and his life in nineteenth-century San Francisco, Robert J. Chandler offers a study equally fascinating as a business and cultural history and as an introduction to Brown the artist.

San Francisco Municipal Railway Merger of 1944

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
History of the street-railroad system in San Francisco and the merger of the private company Market Street Railway with the city owned Municipal Railway in 1944. With a history of the municipal system routes and equipment from 1950-1964.