San Francisco’s F-Line

By Peter Ehrlich (2019)

The story of how America’s most exciting and successful new transportation experience was built!

San Francisco’s F-Line by Peter Ehrlich chronicles streetcar operations from 1860 to 1982, planning for a permanent line, the Trolley Festivals of the 1980s, construction of the F-Line and its opening in 1995, extension to the Wharf and expansion plans, an overview of other historic and modern streetcars in America, and much, much more!

This is the new fourth edition of San Francisco’s F-Line, published in October 2019. It incorporates updates and changes since the book’s original publication in October 2012, and the third edition in April 2014.

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