Cable Car Museum (historic cable car machinery and cars)

The Cable Car Museum houses retired San Francisco cable cars and the large-scale winding machinery that powers the city’s cable car lines. The museum, located at the former Washington-Mason powerhouse, offers views of moving sheaves and trains of cable in the underground winding room. Visitors commonly photograph the historic cars and mechanical displays; images and videos from the museum frequently appear in travel and social-media posts about San Francisco transit history.