File talk:San Francisco Fire Sacramento Street 1906-04-18.jpg

I noted this page when looking through my San Francisco photos and noticed that it is from Sacramento Street. I have a picture from Washington street which I think shows the buildings on the right and has a trolley line. Sacramento Street has no trolley line. Did it have one in 1906?

To see the view from Washington go here: [1]

A quick search of Trolley line history shows that indeed, this picture cannot be from Sacramento Street, as it never had a trolley line run its length.

1. 1852 - Andrew Hallidie arrives from Great Britain
2. 1869 - Hallidie witnessed horse-car accident and had inspiration for a cable railway
3. 1873 August 2 - Andrew Hallidie tested the first cable car system near the top of Nob Hill at Clay and Jones Streets
4. 1873 Sept. 1 - Clay Street line starts public service at an estimated cost to build of $85,150
5. 1877 - Sutter Street Railroad converts from animal power to cable with no break in service
6. 1878 April 10 - Californa Street Cable Railroad Company (Cal Cable) goes into service
7. 1880 Feb. - Geary Street, Park and Ocean Railroad began service
8. 1881 - Dunedin, New Zealand starts cable car service. Stays in service until 1957
9. 1882 Jan. - Chicago opens it's own cable car system much to winter wind-chilled pedestrians' pleasure
10. 1882 Jan. - Presidio and Ferries Railroad (Union Street line) opens service
11. 1883 August - Market Street Cable Railway starts its first line
12. 1887 - Washington-Mason powerhouse and caarbarn built
13. 1887-88 - Frank sprague created the first successful electric streetcar system in Richmond, Virginia
14. 1888 March 28 - Powell Street cable car service started by Ferries & Cliff House Railway Company
15. 1889 - Cal Cable experiments with a double-ended car with open sections at the ends
16. 1889 August - Omnibus Railroad & Cable Company started operating
17. 1891 - Cal Cable replaced its two-car trains with double-ended cars
18. 1892 April - First electric streetcars with overhead wires began running in San Francisco
19. 1906 April 18 - San Francisco's Great Earthquake damages the cable cars, allowing United Railroads (URR) to convert much of the city to streetcar service

Lonetown. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lonetown (talk) 22:41, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

I think the photo is probably labeled correctly. Circa 1906 there was a cable car line running down Sacramento to the Embacadero. Map of San Francisco cable car system at greatest extent. --Paul (talk) 23:27, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

[Forwarded from en:File talk:San Francisco Fire Sacramento Street 1906-04-18.jpg by Athaenara (talk) 03:48, 2 March 2010 (UTC)]