Re: #7 streetcar on Haight Street
Author: "Key Route Ken"
Date: 08-30-2008 - 19:08
stash Wrote:
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> Many steep streetcar routes in San Francisco once
> operated by the Market Street Railway. The
> 7-Haight and 6-Masonic both had their ups and
> downs along Haight Street; the Masonic hill where
> the 6-line left Haight Street is also steep.
>
> Or the 21-Hayes, the Union Street line, 24th
> Street line, etc. The 22-Fillmore had such a steep
> hill at Broadway that the electric cars terminated
> there and a counter balance dinky ran the rest of
> the way to the Marina district. When replaced the
> the trolley buses, they were routed away from the
> steepest hill.
Correction, Sir Stash--
The counterbalance system on the Fillmore line was only two blocks long and was located between Broadway and Green Street. However, the early cars of the United Railroads then continued down the hill to the 1915 World's Fair site.
KRK
>
> There are still many people who remember the White
> Front CarsŪ of the Market Street Railway.