San Francisco Municipal

Company History: The SF Muni opened for business in 1912 when the city refused to renew the franchise of the Geary Street Park & Ocean Railway, a cable car line that ran down Geary. SF Muni converted the line to electric traction and soon began to build new lines through the city. Many of these routes competed with the United Railroads of San Francisco, an established streetcar line. In the 1940’s Muni began converting some routes to trolley busses and acquired the Market Street Railway (including the city’s historic cable car lines.)

In the 1950’s the city’s attention moved to the BART system that was intended for both local and longer distance service. Muni was left to wither while one planning disaster after another struck the BART system. Ultimately, the local service duties were re-allocated to Muni and some infrastructure intended for BART’s “local service” was transferred to them..

Today, the Muni system’s Market Street Railway brand includes a fleet of historic streetcars (mostly PCC cars) painted for historic streetcar lines from across the continent and around the world.

Brief History: The U.S. is a country of 50 states covering a vast swath of North America, with Alaska in the northwest and Hawaii extending the nation’s presence into the Pacific Ocean. Major Atlantic Coast cities are New York, a global finance and culture center, and capital Washington, DC. Midwestern metropolis Chicago is known for influential architecture and on the west coast, Los Angeles' Hollywood is famed for filmmaking.