Powell and Manson Cable Car line offers nice views with Alcatraz Island in the background on the 17% steep grade between Union and Green. Cable Car #26 was built in 1890 by Ferries & Cliff House R... (more)

Legendary Hyde Street near Russian Hill Park in San Francisco. Cable Car #11 was built in 1893 by Crater Bros. for the Sacramento-Clay line, rebuilt in 1980 and in 2018, now painted in the origina... (more)

With more than enough power to accelerate its short commuter train, Southern Pacific SDP45 3208 prepares to depart San Francisco for San Jose on a spring afternoon. In passenger service SP locomot... (more)

Caltrain 900, the proverbial “class unit” of later EMD manufactured F40PH-2s, makes its way through the Bayshore Station on September 25, 2015. This station is within the confines of the City of S... (more)

All kinds of tribute to the past. SFMTA 1011 was built in 1948 by the St. Louis Car Company as a double-ended PCC, and subsequently rebuilt by the Brookville Compnay. But is painted to honor the o... (more)

An outbound commute train awaits departure from The City. The locomotive is still with us today, restored to its as-delivered number of 5623 and its as-delivered black widow livery.

MUNI's Cable Car #16 for Powell & Market line takes a brief break before heading out for another run at the Hyde and Beach St station.

San Francisco Belt's delivered new S2 gets started up for the morning switch before dawn.

Double-end Cable Car #58, which previously served the vanished O'Farrell, Jones and Hyde Line, is seen here on California Street, between Powell Street and Stockton Street. San Francisco's iconic... (more)

Cable Car #52 is climbing the grade on California Street, between Stockton Street and Powell Street. California Street's cable cars are double-end cars, a revolutionary design when it was introduc... (more)

A portrait of Cable Car #1 on the turntable at Powell Street. The flagship of the Powell Street fleet was built in 1973 for the centennial of the world's first cable car line. It has been restored... (more)

A San Francisco Classic! Cable Car #1 is the flagship of the Powell Street fleet. It was built in 1973 for the centennial of the world's first cable car line. Alcatraz Island can be seen in the ba... (more)

One of the biggest attractions of San Francisco is undoubtedly the so-called cable car.