This West Coast city's Market Street once featured 4 sets of streetcar tracks
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Streetcars in North America - Wikipedia  Electric streetcars or trolley(car)s were once the chief mode of public transit in hundreds of .... Along the east coast a large-scale electric street railway system known as ... via the street rails) set the pattern that was to be adopted in many other cities. .... while San Francisco restored one of its defunct streetcar lines (F Market...
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A Brief History of the F-Market & Wharves Line | Market Street Railway  Within a few years, Muni had laid down its own set of tracks on Market Street, ... from the Ferry Building for a few blocks on The Embarcadero, then headed west through ... primarily for streetcars, then through North Beach and the Marina District. .... of the two dozen North American cities that this type of streetcar once served.
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PCC streetcar - Wikipedia  Track gauge  Wide, Standard, Narrow Gauges. The PCC (Presidents' Conference Committee) is a streetcar (tram) design that was first built in ... In late 1935 or early in 1936 Westinghouse Electric pressed for one car to be equipped with .... PCC cars for Canadian cities were assembled in Montreal, Quebec by Canadian...
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Market Street Railway | We keep San Francisco's Vintage Streetcars ...  We keep San Francisco's Vintage Streetcars on Track. ... As good a time as any to share this photo of Market Street, looking east from Fifth Street, taken ... (You can see an operating one at our San Francisco Railway Museum.) ... We also have a great set of notecards at the museum featuring Fred's San Francisco images.
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History Spotlight | Market Street Railway  Aug 9, 2016 ... American flags and a striped banner hang from the streetcar span wires. ... (You can see an operating one at our San Francisco Railway Museum.) ... We also have a great set of notecards at the museum featuring Fred's .... The earthquake wrecked the cable machinery and in some places twisted the tracks.
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jeopardy/174_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  TRANSPORTATION | Changing lines, you could have at one time ridden these from Freeport, IL to Utica, NY | streetcars. right: Lynne. Wrong: Greg: What are...
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Cable Cars & Cable Car Museum | San Francisco, CA  The City's cable cars were named a National Historic Landmark in 1964 by the ... The Museum houses one of the very first cable cars (1873), a Sutter St. grip car...
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Los Angeles in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to the City of Angels on ...  It is a region where rugged mountains, cleft by deep gorges, tower in peaks ... THE history of the Los Angeles area abounds with the gargantuan, the fantastic. .... of Los Angeles' history are seen within a radius of a few blocks of the old Plaza. .... Railroad Stations:Southern Pacific R.R., Cerritos and Railroad Aves.; Union...
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979 - Theodore Roosevelt  From the night of the 18th of April all the available stores .... SAN FRANISCO, CAL., April 18 1906. ..... destroyed by fire, with the exceptionof the vaults, which contain all cash on hanu. .... If the city to the west now* standing remains intact, there ...... Stovepipe ordered to San Francisco shipped via Wells-Fargo Express tonight,...
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General Motors streetcar conspiracy - Wikipedia  The General Motors streetcar conspiracy refers to convictions of General Motors (GM) and other ... Only a handful of U.S. cities have surviving legacy rail urban transport .... working as a trackless trolley, allowing off-wire passenger collection in areas too lightly .... The 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, vectors the folktale.
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Reflect, Reconfigure, Rebuild - San Francisco State University  Strategic crevasses should be located both north and south of New Orleans and on .... But large tracts of the city lay well below sea level in vulnerable areas that .... However, most Tulane and Loyola parking lots should be utilized for infill. ... The historic streetcar would remain intact on St Charles Avenue, with large bike...
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piccadilly Videos - GulluTube  London Underground - Piccadilly Line - 1973 Stock - King's Cross St. Pancras. Views:1 ... In the case of Piccadilly, it's 1-ring, not 3-ring # Quiz # Question. Views:...
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Home | Los Angeles Transit History - Metro  This single track horse car driven line began public transit in Los Angeles. ... As the name suggests, the Main & Fifth Street Railroad (which began service on July 30, 1887) ran from ... Pacific Electric Railway Company (Red Cars) .... 1993 via a merger of the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission and the Southern...
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Streetcar Named Desire - Pinterest  That's right; that's Desire and it runs right on through town to our porch. .... automobiles appeared and began parking in cities, often very near #streetcar tracks. ... The St Charles Streetcar runs through the Garden District, New Orleans ..... Weddings Louisiana, Nola Weddings, Southern Louisiana, Louisiana Music, Louisiana...
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After Quake, Arts Helped San Francisco Rebound : NPR  Apr 5, 2006 ... At the turn of the century, some called San Francisco the Paris of the West. The 1906 earthquake ... This photo shows Market Street burning after the quake. California Historical ... But a production of Babes in Toyland, a popular operetta at the time, also drew crowds to the Columbia Theater downtown.
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Cable Car Heritage - Cable Car Museum  Cable Car Museum presents the history of cable cars from their invention to ... first cable car at 4 o'clock in the morning, August 2nd, 1873, on Clay Street, ... The contract to operate on city streets stated the line must be operational by August 1st. ... system and began cable service in 1877, followed by California Street Cable...
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Street, Philadelphia and Rapid transit on Pinterest  CITY RAPID TRANSIT: 36th Street Station of the Market Street Elevated line .... It shows the old gal enmeshed in a city, rather than set off from the life .... City Hall: 1910 Philadelphia Until the 1980's no new building could be taller than the ..... The Milwaukee Limited was a high-speed train that was capable of traveling at 70.
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Lombard Street - San Francisco City Guides  Since the Lombard Street lots were inaccessible by autos, the property values ... It seems likely that when Carl Henry proposed the idea of a curved street he may have been recalling Parsons' report, or possibly city engineer Clyde Healy found a ... Subject files in the San Francisco Public Library History Center; Russian Hill...
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Guide: San Francisco's Cable Cars - San Francisco Days  Ride while you can in 2010 because they're scheduled to be shut down for ... It also makes them longer than cars on the Powell lines. ... The California Street line crosses through Chinatown ... Empty cable cars stack up on Powell Street waiting for the turnaround and boarding point ... In 1964, a cable car ride cost 15 cents.
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Free Flashcards about HOLIDAYS & OBS. - StudyStack  THE ANNUAL CHINESE NEW YEAR PARADE IN THIS WEST COAST CITY IS ... GERING, NEBRASKA'S 4-DAY CELEBRATION OF THIS PIONEER TRAIL FEATURES AN OLD SETTLER'S REUNION AND PARADES, THE OREGON TRAIL.
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6,000 Cheesecakes & 7 Other Strange Robberies | Mental Floss  Jan 11, 2010 ... 1. Bridge Today, Gone Tomorrow If someone offered to sell you the Brooklyn ... During the 1992 L.A. riots, while some looters were busy stealing TVs and VCRs, others broke into Frederick's of Hollywood and made off with around ... gold tassels that Madonna wore in the music video for "Open Your Heart,"...