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Mayor Rolph and United Railroads President Calhoun Are At the Reins of the City’s Last Horsecar

Horsecar service finally ended with the Lower Market Street Agreement between the City and the United Railroads (URR). Under the agreement the single URR franchise Market Street horsecar between Sansome and the Ferry was ended, URR Sutter Street streetcars now ran to the Ferry and the City’s Geary Street cars used the outside Market Street tracks to reach the Ferry. The account of the last horsecar trip appeared in The San Francisco Examiner, June 4, 1913.

Success, and -- 5 A.M. Champagne
(Document Courtesy of Arthur Lloyd)

The September 29, 1944 San Francisco News account of the take over by the City's Municipal Railway of the larger private Market Street Railway that morning. At precisely 5:00 a.m. that morning the Muni for the first time became a cable car operator.

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