When we're not eating we'll ride the historic streetcars and cable cars

One of the fun, and sometimes challenging, experiences in a city is figuring out transportation.  Of course San Francisco is not exactly a new city for us, and it's a small city to boot.  So we should have more of the enjoyment and less of the challenge in our explorations.
Of course you realize our Airbnb is located almost on top of the Powell-Mason line

We're hoping it's not as crowded as we remember it last time.  While the cable cars are used to a certain extent by commuters, the vast majority of their 7 million annual passengers are tourists.  So we should feel right at home.  Did you know that the San Francisco cable car system is the world's last manually operated cable car system?  The US Department of Transportation counts the cable cars among the mass transportation systems with the most accidents per year and vehicle mile in the US, with 126 accidents and 151 injured persons reported by the city during the 10 years until 2013.  So we'd better be careful.  You can read all about it on, you guess it, Wikipedia.

And don't you think it's about time to go to the Cable Car Museum.  It's free and pretty close at 1201 Mason.  I think we can just jump off the cable there.

"Stop, we need to get off at the museum"

I'd link to it, but I think the site has been hijacked.  "The facility, which is inside the city's last cable-car barn, takes the top off the system to let you see how it all works. Eternally humming and squealing, the massive powerhouse cable wheels steal the show. You can also climb aboard a vintage car and take the grip, ring a cable-car bell (briefly), and check out vintage gear dating from 1873."

What about the historic streetcars?  They also run on rails, but are powered by electricity rather than cables.  In 1962 construction began on BART which was supposed to put the 5 Market Street trolley lines underground.  I guess it wasn't a unilateral success or perhaps someone saw the great tourist potential of historic streetcars, especially if another Embarcadero route was added to Fisherman's Wharf.

San Francisco's Municipal Railway has assembled one of the most diverse collections of vintage streetcars, trolleys, and trams in transit service anywhere. Up to 20 of these vintage vehicles carry passengers along Market Street and The Embarcadero every day.

very faint, but you get the idea!

And finally, there are the trolley buses with wheels, not rails, and powered by electricity.  You can find a detailed map here. 

And, if I'm reading it correctly, the 30, 41 and 45 are trolley bus lines run right by the apartment.

Oh, we have got to pick up that MUNI pass and start traveling.