San Francisco Railway Museum

These are photos from the Fred Matthews Collection. Muni from the 40s & 50s.

Muni PCCs from the archives. Click on photos for additional information.

Our museum is closed until further notice as part of the stay-at-home order covering all of California. We will post information about its reopening when we have it. Meanwhile selected items from our museum shop are available for purchase in our online store. We would also greatly appreciate even a small donation to keep our nonprofit alive. You can access both our store and donation page at www.streetcar.org. Thanks.

If you were living in San Francisco in the late 40s, 50s, and 60s and rode the bus, not a trolley coach, to school or work you most likely rode on a White or Mack bus. In the late 40s the Muni acquired over 200 White's to replace the old Market Street Railway streetcar lines. The Mack's came around 1955 to begin replacing the older White's.

From the archives we have Muni on Market St. Click photos for more information.

Muni PCC's from the early 1970s. Click photos for additional information.

Some B& W photos from the MSR Archives & Al Thoman collection. Clk photos for more information.

Photos of Market Street Railway from 1940. Click on photos for additional information.

Photos from the 1950s. MSR Archives/Wallace Young Collection. Click each photo for more information.

In the 1970's the Muni began replacing their Post-WW II trolley coaches with the Flyer's. From the MSR Archives and the John Smissaert Collection photos of Flyers mostly from the early 1980's.