There's a new look these days at California and Market streets in San Francisco, the downtown terminal of the world's oldest operating cable car line. Though the California Street line has been ...

Before the Great Earthquake of 1906, there were more than 600 cable cars in San Francisco. By 1912, there were less than 100. Today, there are 44. Every few years, a cable car must be replaced—a ...

The cable cars that roll up and down California Street are designated national landmarks, but advocates say the stations at either end of the line are anything but, offering little to remember or ...

In a city fuelled by technology, San Francisco’s cable cars are helping to keep history alive. We go along for a ride. Annie Washington, born and raised in San Francisco, makes one thing clear as we ...