Cable Car 50 climbs California Street towards Powell Street. In the background is Chinatown, the Financial District, and the Bay Bridge.

City by the Bay: San Francisco is a beautiful city and we spent a day riding and photographing streetcars and cable cars on March 6, 2003. At the end of the day, we began gravitating toward Fisher... (more)

Captured late in the day, San Francisco MUNI Cable Car #21 rambles south along Powell Street at O'Farrell.

San Francisco MUNI Cable Car #10 crests the hill at California Street on the Powell Street line.

On a crisp, clear morning in San Francisco, riders board Cable Car #1 on the Powell Street line.

San Francisco Municipal Railway cable car #2 begins a journey it undoubtedly has performed hundreds if not thousands of times along Powell Street. This wonderfully iconic mode of transportation is... (more)

The Night Moves! A MUNI cable car stops to pick up passengers in front of the Sir Francis Drake hotel on Powell Street in San Francisco, California.

At the end of a warm autumn afternoon, MUNI Cable Car #5 descends Nob Hill on Powell Street in San Francisco, California.

With twilight bringing with it an extra level of magic to The City, MUNI Cable Car 15 begins the ascent up Nob Hill along the Powell Street line in San Francisco, California.

Photographed soon after attending a Eucharist service at Grace Cathedral, I caught MUNI Cable Car 56 rolling east down Nob Hill on the California Street line in San Francisco, California.

At the gateway to San Francisco's Chinatown neighborhood, MUNI cable car 60 descends the steep California Street line at Grant Street crossing. Old St. Mary's Catholic Church looms on the corner a... (more)

On a crystal clear morning in 'The City', a San Francisco Municipal Railway cable car heads down Powell Street at Post Street crossing between the Borders Books & Saks Fifth Avenue stores.

It's early in the evening and excitement is in the air in downtown San Francisco. MUNI Cable Car 24, having just descended the steep grade off Nob Hill, prepares to make a quick flag stop in front... (more)

It's a balmy, unseasonably warm evening in beautiful downtown San Francisco, California. MUNI Cable Car 10 has just descended the steep Powell & Mason line and is preparing to stop at the end of i... (more)

Two forms of mass transit, both historic and contemporary meet at the intersection of California and Powell Streets in San Francisco.