#TBT: San Francisco's Stagecoaches, Steamboats, Trains and Cable Cars, 1849-1917
The world's first cable car, built in 1873. (Courtesy of State Library)

#TBT: San Francisco's Stagecoaches, Steamboats, Trains and Cable Cars, 1849-1917

By
V. Alexandra de F. Szoenyi
Sep 28, 2017

To celebrate Transit Week (Sep. 25-Oct. 1) in San Francisco, we're taking a gander back at the various modes of transportation that got San Franciscans from point A to point B from the late 1800s to the early 1900s.

1871

  

(via SFPL)

This horsecar from the Sutter Street Railroad Company was known as a "baloon car." It's destinations were Lone Mountain and City Front, and an inscription on the back of this photo also claimed this particular one was "famous."

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