San Francisco Municipal Railway (San Francisco, CA)

[Glennwood Road Ent.]

New topic from the San Francisco Bay Area here. Last part of my California trip including the Pacific Bus Museum visit on Saturday October 4th, 2025 in Fremont, CA. For those who are not familiar with the place, they've opened every 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month at 10AM tp 2PM.

P.S. This was 3 weeks prior to 2007 Orion VII HEV (07.503) retirement in which 8528 was the last unit in revenue service before retirement on October 21, 2025 and the Last unit Breda LRV2/3 Trains were retired the next month on November 12, 2025 which 1534 was the last unit in service prior to donation going to Western Railway Museum for historical preservation. Too bad I didn't have to go see them units in their very last legs in service. 

On October 3rd, 2025 during my first visit there In The Bay Area, I took many photos and videos of San Francisco Municipal Railway Street cars, trolleybuses, hybrid buses, LRV Trains and Cable Cars there on my phone and tablet respectively including my first visit at the Cable Car museum to see how it works and the last surviving manually operated system in the world since 1873.

Old fully restored antique Streetcar from late 1940s

2013 New Flyer XDE40 Xcelsior Hybrid unit 8621. At the time of the photo was taken 3 weeks prior to the Orion Retirement, the 8600 and 8700 series are the oldest units in SF MUNI Fleet and some of the 8600s are in the process of preparing for retirement as the new 2nd 8000s 2025-26 New Flyer XDE40 Xcelsior Hybrid Gen 2 with the new NG roofline (8001-8094) arrived and some of the early 8000s were placed in service  while the rest of the units are currently in the process of delivery. At the time of this writing, the 8600s Began retirement in March 2026. 57 units left in service at the time of this writing. 

And at Chinatown Neighborhood of San Francisco on the way to Cable Car Museum. 2 cable cars passing on the street. 

 

Also my first Trolleybus spotting in San Francisco 

New Flyer XT40 ETB (Only Seattle and San Francisco are the notable operators of XT40 and XT60 with the HVAC mounted on the rear of the bus) 

More to come on a later date 

[MetroShadow]

You've missed the entire Heritage Weekend (that I personally kept missing), but at least you got PBM.