San Francisco Streetcar Map

San francisco, like many american cities, used to have rail tracks lining most of its major streets. We’ve created a tourism map that gives both visitors and tourists the best spots to visit, and exact street coordinates. We couldn't find any streetcars near you.

The website, created by designer, historian and web coder chris arvin, features a map that lets you explore what san francisco’s streetcar system looked like in 1940 and 1960, and what it will look like in 2020. The system forms part of the intermodal urban transport network operated by the san francisco municipal railway, which also includes the separate e embarcadero and f market & wharves heritage streetcar lines, and the muni metro modern. San francisco streetcars similarly to the cable car (and not to be confused with it), the streetcars (trams) are a historical form of transportation and a different way to explore san francisco.

As the official sf to do, we have a unique take on the spots worth visiting based on thousands of reader feedback opinions.

Shift your mouse across the map. In the early 1980s, san francisco maintained a system of both cable cars and streetcars. Once upon a time, san francisco was crawling with streetcars. The historical f line has trams that are over 150 years old, which have been brought over from different parts of the world (hiroshima, moscow, porto and hamburg are some examples) for.