Sightseeing
IconicSan Francisco Cable Cars
Under $25Ride an open-sided cable car up and over the hills on three historic lines pulled by underground cables.
Transit: reachable by public transit
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Museums
San Francisco Cable Car Museum
A free museum on Nob Hill showing the history of San Francisco's cable car system, housed in a working powerhouse and carbarn.
1201 Mason Street, San Francisco, CA · San Francisco, CA
About San Francisco Cable Car Museum
The museum sits in the Washington-Mason powerhouse and carbarn on Nob Hill. It holds historic cable cars, photographs, and mechanical displays that trace the system from its early days through its near collapse and later rebuilding. The site is run by the Friends of the Cable Car Museum, a nonprofit devoted to preserving cable car history. A gift shop sells cable car memorabilia, books, and related items. Because the cable cars still run, the building doubles as a working museum of the transit system itself.
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- #working powerhouse
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