Market Street Railway (transit operator)
The Market Street Railway Company (MSR) was a privately owned transport company in San Francisco, which, later, cable cars, trams, trolleybuses and buses operating in the city from 1860 first steam trams and horse-drawn trams. It was 1944, in the municipal public transport company, which still exists today San Francisco Municipal Railway ( " Muni "). Many of the tram lines of operation are still considered overhead line or bus lines, operated partly with the same line number and name.
History
On July 4, 1860, the then still San Francisco Market Street Railroad called operation opened a standard gauge steam tram along Market Street, the main thoroughfare of the city, after the company was named. The line ran from the corner of Third Street by the Market Street and Valencia Street to 16th Street. After a short time the steam has stopped and the cars were pulled by horses. End of the 1860s, acquired the San Francisco and San Jose Rail Road train and called the company first came into Market Street Railway. Later, the Southern Pacific Railroad bought the car up along with the San Francisco and San Jose. 1882 The company was renamed Market Street Cable Railway, as many cable car routes were planned and were built in the following years. The existing horse-drawn trams were partly rebuilt in Cable Cars, including the original route of the railway company by the Market and Valencia Street. 1887 took over the railway company, the Geary Street, Park and Ocean Railway, the operating cable cars along the Geary Street in the track width of five feet (1524 mm). The line was converted to standard gauge in 1892.
On October 13, 1893, the Company merged with a number of other small street railway companies to the new Market Street Railway. Came in at that time, the Central Railroad, the City Railroad, the Ferries and Cliff House Railway, Market Street and Fairmount Railway, the North Beach and Mission Railroad, the Omnibus Cable Company, the Park and Ocean Railroad, the Potrero and Bay View Railroad, the Ocean Beach Railway and the Southern Heights and Visitacion Railway. All these companies had tram routes in and around San Francisco, which now constitute a common network. The routes had different track widths, including turn those with five foot gauge, but also stretches into three feet ( 914 mm) and Cape gauge ( 1067 mm).
A new merger brought the railway company again a new name. On 4 March 1902, the MSR merged with the Sutter Street Railway, the Sutro Railroad and the San Francisco and San Mateo Electric Railway to the United Railroads of San Francisco. Legally, there was the Market Street Railway Company continues as a subsidiary of United Railroads. The earthquake in San Francisco April 18, 1906 and the resulting large fires destroyed many routes, depot equipment and vehicles. Only the steepest cable car lines were then rebuilt, the rest were converted into electric trams. Thus, the electric tram was already on 3 May 1906 at the Market Street into operation. The cable car routes kept doing their track gauge, still go on this Kapspurgleisen, the remaining tracks were built normalspurig again. Some routes disappeared without replacement, such as the tram through the Dupont Street (now Grant Avenue).
1918 were the United Railroads bankrupt and was sold in 1921 to its own subsidiaries. The company changed its name since then as Market Street Railway Company. From the 1920s, the route network was thinned, some routes accounted for without replacement, while others were from 1935 rebuilt in catenary bus routes. The first trolleybus route of San Francisco was from 6 October 1935, the line 33, Stanyan Street -Twin Peaks 18th Street Harrison Street, which still operates on a large part of this route. On September 29, 1944, adopted the San Francisco Municipal Railway, the urban transport operation, the Market Street Railway and introduced until 1949 all the tram lines on O- bus or bus operating at. Get remained the route on Market Street, as the Muni, the four-track system to their own two (outer) tracks zurückbaute on two tracks and thereby used the MSR tracks. Was also used further the distance from the Ocean Avenue / Brighton Avenue by the Ocean Avenue and Onondaga Avenue to Mission Street (Line K ), but the tracks were removed from the Onondaga Avenue in the 1950s. The Powell & Mason Cable Car line was also continue to operate and operates today. Today's Cable Car Line Powell & Hyde runs between Powell Street and Hyde Street / Jackson Street also about former MSR tracks.
Some former MSR routes were established from the 1980s again, namely the route in the San Jose Avenue from Balboa Park to Broad Street (1980, line M ), the distance from the Church Street to Balboa Park (1991, line J ), and the route through the Third Street (2007, line D). The nonprofit organization Market Street Railway was named after the railway company in 1976 and restored old tram cars that come to the Cable Car line and the tram line F of the Muni used.
Line network
1921 when the Market Street Railway had taken over the operation of the United Railroads, was the following line network (at this time only electric trams and cable cars ). Some lines had no number, it affects all cable car lines, but also electrical lines. All lines also had an official line name that was used in timetables, as well as most line color in which the target plates were labeled, which were attached to the right front fender.
A line 13, there was not in the power of the Market Street Railway. After 1921 a number of new lines have been opened yet. Opened on May 15, 1932 Line 31 ( " Balboa ", line color white) was the only one with a new line. The line started at the 30th Av / Balboa St and led on Balboa St - Turk St - Mason St (→ ) / Divisadero St ( ←) - Eddy St - Market St to the Ferry Plaza. As of January 15, 1939, she reversed to East Bay Terminal. From 12 February to October 2, 1947 ended the tracks on weekdays in daily traffic already on the Eddy St / Powell St, then drove all the cars to Ferry Plaza. As of October 6, 1947 trams were only on weekdays in daily traffic on the line 31 you ended as of March 21, 1949 at the Eddy St / Market St. On July 3, 1949, the line was replaced by buses, and later by O - buses.
As of February 16, 1927 the line perverse 41 ( "2nd & Market ", line color white) in the rush hour of the 2nd St / Market St on 2nd St, Brannan St, 3rd St to the Southern Pacific train station. It was replaced on January 15, 1949 by the " Muni " line F. The line 43 ( "Broadway & SP Depot" ) was introduced on 15 September 1936 and frequented by the Broadway St / Davis St via Broadway St, Kearny St and 3rd St to the railway station. On September 12, 1941, she was decommissioned.