Visiting San Francisco for just a day? Or perhaps you reside in the city, and just need some activities to pass the time? In ...

When Gavin Newsom served as mayor of San Francisco, he imagined the city not only as a Paris of the West, but as the terminus ...

Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) launches service to Windsor. Also, NC By Train celebrates 35 years of Carolinian and 30 years ...

With a tinge of melancholy, more than 2,400 bicyclists gathered Sunday morning to kick off the last AIDS/LifeCycle, bringing to a close more than three decades of fundraising through the annual event ...

Today, we share what happened to one of the most picturesque routes of them all: a line that led to Land’s End. This 1923 ...

San Francisco is also one of the last stands ... Market system the inside tracks on Market Street, which has more trolley tracks than any other thoroughfare in the world. It is no small feat ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Daniel Lurie began the morning ... his young family through the rugged Tenderloin district to hop a cable car that would take them to Ghirardelli Square and one of the most ...

Yakima's trolley railroad is in the spotlight as officials try to save the trolley tracks to Selah. The city of Yakima is ... case for becoming a National Historic Landmark, just as San Francisco's ...

Growing up in a suburb of San Francisco, I loved visiting the city ... heard music at Davies Symphony Hall, and rode a trolley up and down the hilly streets. I meandered around the Sutro Bath ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A cable car’s abrupt halt ... The emergency brake drops a metal wedge into the trolley track. “If the gripman cannot stop the car by other means, pulling on the lever will ...

The emergency brake drops a metal wedge into the trolley track. “If the gripman cannot ... being referred to as a guillotine brake.” San Francisco’s famed cable cars date to 1873, the ...