Before the Great Earthquake of 1906, there were more than 600 cable cars in San Francisco. By 1912, there were less than 100. Today, there are 44. Every few years, a cable car must be replaced—a ...

There's a new look these days at California and Market streets in San Francisco, the downtown terminal of the world's oldest operating cable car line. Though the California Street line has been ...

Since Andrew Smith Hallidie introduced Cable Cars in 1873, San Francisco's cable car lines changed the landscape of San Francisco, making hilly neighborhoods accessible. The cable cars survived the ...

As a lifelong Muni-obsessive, Alex Key, 22, has ridden on every line and every vehicle, from the cable car to the boat car. But before this weekend he'd never had the chance to ride the gas-powered, ...

In a city fuelled by technology, San Francisco’s cable cars are helping to keep history alive. We go along for a ride. Annie Washington, born and raised in San Francisco, makes one thing clear as we ...