Street Switching. San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) cable car 4 is seen at Washington St / Powell St where it will short turn to head back to Bay St / Taylor St. The conductor is w... (more)

Crossing Control. San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) cable car 13 is seen at Powell St / California St, crossing the tracks of the California Street line. Car 13 was built by Muni f... (more)

Passing at Pine and Powell. San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) cable cars 15 and 16 are seen at Powell St / Pine St operating Powell-Mason and Powell-Hyde services, respectively. Ca... (more)

Ruling Grade. San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) cable car 16 is seen climbing the 21% grade up Russian Hill - the steepest on the entire cable car network - as it rises away from t... (more)

Last Car. San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) cable car 1 is seen resting in the street at Hyde St / Beach St, waiting to be turned for its next trip as one of the night's last runs ... (more)

With Alcatraz and Angel Islands in San Francisco Bay in the background, a Powell-Hyde car climbs Russian Hill at Lombard Street. Temperatures in the mid-70s and the annual Bay to Breakers footrace... (more)

Cruising down Russian Hill at a steady 9.5MPH, a Hyde-Powell car approaches the Union Street intersection on its way south.

San Francisco MUNI Cable Car 54 pauses briefly at Grant Street crossing on the California Street Line. The Bay Bridge and the former Southern Pacific building are in the background at the bottom o... (more)

San Francisco MUNI Cable Cars 28 and 25 meet at Union Square on the Powell-Mason Street Line.

San Francisco MUNI Cable Car 25 rumbles through Union Square on the Powell-Mason Street Line.

San Francisco MUNI Cable Car 21 rumbles through Union Square on the Powell-Mason Street Line. The brick building (at left) used to be a four story flagship Borders Book store.

San Francisco MUNI Cable Car 10 rolls to a stop at the north end of the Powell-Mason Street Line. A beautifully restored 1968 Cadillac DeVille Convertible enjoys a quiet evening parked along San F... (more)

San Francisco MUNI Cable Car 9 rumbles through Union Square at Ellis and Powell Streets.

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 tow... (more)