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Muni Metro

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The Muni Metro is a light rail system serving San Francisco, California, operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni), a division of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA). [1]

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American Public Transportation Association

The American Public Transportation Association (APTA), formerly known as the American Public Transit Association, is a nonprofit organization which serves as an advocate for the advancement of public transportation programs and initiatives in the United States.

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AT&T Park

AT&T Park is a baseball park located in the South Beach neighborhood of San Francisco, California.

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Automatic train control

Automatic train control (ATC) is a general class of train protection systems for railways that involves a speed control mechanism in response to external inputs.

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Automatic train operation

Automatic train operation (ATO) is an operational safety enhancement device used to help automate operations of trains.

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Balboa Park station

Balboa Park is a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and Muni Metro station complex located south of Balboa Park in southern San Francisco, California.

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Balboa Park, San Francisco

Balboa Park is a neighborhood and public park in San Francisco, California.

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Bay Area Rapid Transit

Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), is a rapid transit public transportation system serving the San Francisco Bay Area in California.

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Boeing Rotorcraft Systems

Boeing Rotorcraft Systems (formerly Boeing Helicopters and before that Boeing Vertol) is the former name of a US aircraft manufacturer, now known as Vertical Lift division of Boeing Defense, Space & Security.

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Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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California Public Utilities Commission

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC or PUC) is a regulatory agency that regulates privately-owned public utilities in the state of California, including electric power, telecommunications, natural gas and water companies.

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Caltrain

Caltrain (Reporting mark JPBX) is a California commuter rail line on the San Francisco Peninsula and in the Santa Clara Valley (Silicon Valley).

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Castro station

Castro station is a Muni Metro station at the intersection of Market Street, Castro Street, and 17th Street in The Castro district of San Francisco, California.

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Central Subway

The Central Subway is an extension of the Muni Metro light rail system under construction in San Francisco, California, from the Caltrain commuter rail depot at 4th and King streets to Chinatown, with stops in South of Market (SoMa) and Union Square.

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Chinatown, San Francisco

The Chinatown centered on Grant Avenue and Stockton Street in San Francisco, California, is the oldest Chinatown in North America and the largest Chinese enclave outside Asia.

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Church station (Muni Metro)

Church Street is a Muni Metro light rail station at the six-way intersection of Market Street, Church Street and 14th Street in the Duboce Triangle neighborhood of San Francisco, California.

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Civic Center/UN Plaza station

Civic Center/UN Plaza is a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and Muni Metro station in the Civic Center of San Francisco.

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Clipper card

The Clipper card is a reloadable contactless smart card used for electronic transit fare payment in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles

Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (Grupo CAF) (literally "Construction & Other Railway Services") is a Spanish publicly-listed company which manufactures railway vehicles and equipment. It is based in Beasain in the Basque Country. Equipment manufactured by Grupo CAF includes light rail vehicles, rapid transit trains, railroad cars and locomotives, as well as variable gauge axles that can be fitted on any existing truck or bogie. Over the 20 years from the early 1990s, CAF benefitted from the rail investment boom in its home market in Spain to become a world player with a broad technical capability, able to manufacture almost any type of rail vehicle. CAF has supplied railway rolling stock to a number of major urban transit operators around Europe, the US, South America, East Asia, India and North Africa.

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Direct current

Direct current (DC) is the unidirectional flow of electric charge.

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Dot-com bubble

The dot-com bubble (also known as the dot-com boom, the dot-com crash, the Y2K crash, the Y2K bubble, the tech bubble, the Internet bubble, the dot-com collapse, and the information technology bubble) was a historic economic bubble and period of excessive speculation that occurred roughly from 1997 to 2001, a period of extreme growth in the usage and adaptation of the Internet.

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Duboce and Church station

Duboce and Church (Church and Duboce for the J Church line) is a light rail stop on the Muni Metro J Church and N Judah lines, located in the Duboce Triangle neighborhood of San Francisco, California.

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Duboce Triangle, San Francisco

The Duboce Triangle neighborhood is located near the center of San Francisco, California just below the hilly slopes of Buena Vista Park between the neighborhoods of the Castro/Eureka Valley, the Mission District, and the Lower Haight.

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E Embarcadero

The E Embarcadero is a light rail line that is the San Francisco Municipal Railway's second heritage streetcar line in San Francisco, California.

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Embarcadero station

Embarcadero is a BART and Muni Metro station in the Financial District of San Francisco.

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Eureka station

Eureka Valley station is an abandoned underground streetcar station in San Francisco, California.

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F Market & Wharves

The F Market & Wharves line is one of several light rail lines in San Francisco, California.

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Financial District, San Francisco

The Financial District is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, that serves as its main central business district.

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Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco

Fisherman's Wharf is a neighborhood and popular tourist attraction in San Francisco, California.

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Forest Hill station (Muni Metro)

Forest Hill Station is a Muni Metro station near the Forest Hill and Laguna Honda neighborhoods in San Francisco, California.

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Glen Park station

Glen Park is a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station in the Glen Park neighborhood of San Francisco, California, at the intersection of Bosworth and Diamond Streets.

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Greater Manchester Integrated Transport Authority

The Greater Manchester Integrated Transport Authority (GMITA) was a local government institution responsible for the strategic direction of passenger transport in Greater Manchester.

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Heritage streetcar

Heritage streetcars or heritage trams are a part of the efforts to preserve rail traffic heritage.

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Hitachi Rail Italy

Hitachi Rail Italy S.p.A. (HRI) is a rail transport engineering company based in Italy whose main products are designing and manufacturing of railway and mass transit vehicles.

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Interurban Press

Interurban Press was a small, privately owned American publishing company, specializing in books about streetcars, other forms of rail transit and railroads in North America, from 1943MacDougall, Kent (May 19, 1983).

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J Church

The J Church is a Muni Metro light rail line in San Francisco, California, mainly serving the Noe Valley and Balboa Park neighborhoods, connecting them to downtown.

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Judah and La Playa station

Judah and La Playa is a light rail station that serves as the western terminus of the Muni Metro N Judah line.

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K Ingleside

The K Ingleside is a Muni Metro line in San Francisco, California, mainly serving the West Portal and Ingleside neighborhoods.

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Kawasaki Heavy Industries Rolling Stock Company

is the rolling stock production division of Kawasaki Heavy Industries. Since beginning operations in 1906, the company has produced more than 90,000 Railroad cars.

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L Taraval

The L Taraval is a Muni Metro line in San Francisco, California, mainly serving the Parkside District.

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Light rail

Light rail, light rail transit (LRT), or fast tram is a form of urban rail transport using rolling stock similar to a tramway, but operating at a higher capacity, and often on an exclusive right-of-way.

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Light rail in the United States

Light rail is defined in the United States (and elsewhere) as a mode of electrified (or in a few exceptional cases, diesel-powered) rail-based transit, usually urban in nature, which is distinguished by operation in routes of generally exclusive, though not necessarily grade-separated, rights-of-way.

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List of California railroads

The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of California.

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List of North American light rail systems by ridership

The following is a list of all light rail systems in North America, ranked by ridership.

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List of tram and light rail transit systems

The following is a list of cities that have current tram/streetcar (including heritage trams/heritage streetcars), or light rail systems as part of their regular public transit systems.

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List of United States light rail systems by ridership

The following is a list of all light rail systems in the United States, ranked by ridership. Also included are those urban streetcar/trolley systems that are providing regular public transit service (i.e. operating year-round and at least five days/week).

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M Ocean View

The M Ocean View is a Muni Metro light rail line in San Francisco, California.

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Market Street (San Francisco)

Market Street is a major thoroughfare in San Francisco, California.

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Market Street Railway (nonprofit)

Market Street Railway is San Francisco Municipal Railway's (Muni) 1,200-member nonprofit preservation partner.

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Market Street Subway

The Market Street Subway is a double-decker subway tunnel that carries Muni Metro and BART train traffic in San Francisco, California.

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Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (abbreviated MBTA and known colloquially as "the T") is the public agency responsible for operating most public transportation services in Greater Boston, Massachusetts.

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Median

The median is the value separating the higher half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution, from the lower half.

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Montgomery Street station

Montgomery Street is a shared Muni Metro and Bay Area Rapid Transit subway station in the Financial District of San Francisco.

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Moscone Center

The George R. Moscone Convention Center (popularly known as the Moscone Center, pronounced) is the largest convention and exhibition complex in San Francisco, California.

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N Judah

The N Judah is a Muni Metro light rail line in San Francisco, California, so named as it runs along Judah Street for much of its length, named after railroad engineer Theodore Judah.

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Night service (public transport)

A night service or an owl service is a public transport service which operates through overnight hours, while most people are asleep.

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North Beach, San Francisco

North Beach is a neighborhood in the northeast of San Francisco adjacent to Chinatown, the Financial District, and Russian Hill.

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Ocean Beach, San Francisco

Ocean Beach is a beach on the west coast of San Francisco, California, United States, bordering the Pacific Ocean.

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Oregon Electric Railway Historical Society

The Oregon Electric Railway Historical Society (OERHS) is a non-profit organization in the U.S. state of Oregon, founded in 1957.

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Overhead line

An overhead line or overhead wire is used to transmit electrical energy to trams, trolleybuses or trains.

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Parkmerced, San Francisco

Parkmerced is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, designed by architect Leonard Schultze and landscape architect Thomas Dolliver Church in the early 1940s.

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PCC streetcar

The PCC (Presidents’ Conference Committee) is a streetcar (tram) design that was first built in the United States in the 1930s.

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Potrero Hill

Potrero Hill is a residential neighborhood in San Francisco, California.

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Powell Street station

Powell Street is a shared Muni Metro and Bay Area Rapid Transit station near the intersection of Market Street and Powell Street in downtown San Francisco.

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Relay

A relay is an electrically operated switch.

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Richmond District, San Francisco

The Richmond District is a neighborhood in the northwest corner of San Francisco, California, developed initially in the late 19th century.

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Right-of-way (transportation)

A right-of-way (ROW) is a right to make a way over a piece of land, usually to and from another piece of land.

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S Shuttle

The S Shuttle is a light rail service on the Muni Metro system in San Francisco, California.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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San Francisco 4th and King Street Station

San Francisco 4th and King Street, 4th and King (previously 4th & Townsend), or Caltrain Depot is the north end of the Caltrain commuter rail line to the San Francisco Peninsula and Santa Clara Valley, and is a major area transit hub.

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San Francisco cable car system

The San Francisco cable car system is the world's last manually operated cable car system.

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San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California.

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San Francisco County Transportation Authority

The San Francisco County Transportation Authority (SFCTA) is a state chartered sub-regional transportation planning and programming agency for San Francisco County.

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San Francisco Municipal Railway

The San Francisco Municipal Railway (SF Muni or Muni) is the public transit system for the city and county of San Francisco, California.

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San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA or San Francisco MTA) is an agency created by consolidation of the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni), the Department of Parking and Traffic (DPT), and the Taxicab Commission.

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San Francisco Railway Museum

The San Francisco Railway Museum is a local railway museum located in the South of Market area of San Francisco.

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San Francisco State University station

San Francisco State University station is a light rail stop on the Muni Metro M Ocean View line, located adjacent to San Francisco State University and the Parkmerced development in the median of 19th Avenue in San Francisco, California.

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San Francisco Transbay Terminal

The San Francisco Transbay Terminal or Transbay Terminal, was a transportation complex in San Francisco, California, United States, roughly in the center of the rectangle bounded north–south by Mission Street and Howard Street, and east–west by Beale Street and 2nd Street in the South of Market area of the city.

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San Francisco Zoo

The San Francisco Zoo is a zoo located in the southwestern corner of San Francisco, California, between Lake Merced and the Pacific Ocean along the Great Highway.

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SelTrac

SelTrac is a digital railway signalling technology used to automatically control the movements of rail vehicles.

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Siemens

Siemens AG is a German conglomerate company headquartered in Berlin and Munich and the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe with branch offices abroad.

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Siemens Mobility

Siemens Mobility is a division of the German conglomerate Siemens.

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Siemens S200

The Siemens S200 is a high-floor light rail vehicle (LRV) manufactured by Siemens Mobility, a division of Siemens AG, in Florin, California.

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Standard-gauge railway

A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of.

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Stonestown Galleria station

Stownstown Galleria station is a light rail stop on the Muni Metro M Ocean View line, located in the median of 19th Avenue adjacent to Stonestown Galleria in San Francisco, California.

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Street running

On-street running or street running is the routing of a railroad track or tramway track running directly along public streets, without any grade separation.

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Streetcars in North America

Electric streetcars or trolley(car)s (North American English for the European word tram) were once the chief mode of public transit in hundreds of North American cities and towns.

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Sunnydale station

Sunnydale Station, 2007, access date July 10, 2008 is an island platform light rail station of the San Francisco Municipal Railway's Muni Metro system located in the median of Bayshore Boulevard at Sunnydale Avenue in Visitacion Valley, San Francisco, California.

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Sunset Tunnel

The Sunset Tunnel is a -long light rail/streetcar tunnel in San Francisco, California.

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T Third Street

The T Third Street is a Muni Metro line in San Francisco, California.

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The San Francisco Examiner

The San Francisco Examiner is a longtime daily newspaper distributed in and around San Francisco, California.

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Third Street Light Rail Project

The Third Street Light Rail Project was the construction project that expanded the Muni Metro system in San Francisco, California, linking downtown San Francisco to the historically underserved southeastern neighborhoods of Bayview-Hunters Point and Visitacion Valley along the eastern side of the city.

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Tram

A tram (also tramcar; and in North America streetcar, trolley or trolley car) is a rail vehicle which runs on tramway tracks along public urban streets, and also sometimes on a segregated right of way.

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Turnstile

A turnstile, also called a baffle gate or turnstyle, is a form of gate which allows one person to pass at a time.

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Twin Peaks Tunnel

The Twin Peaks Tunnel is a -long light rail/streetcar tunnel in San Francisco, California.

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Union Square, San Francisco

Union Square is a public plaza bordered by Geary, Powell, Post and Stockton Streets in downtown San Francisco, California.

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US Standard Light Rail Vehicle

The US Standard Light Rail Vehicle was a light rail vehicle (LRV) built by Boeing Vertol in the 1970s.

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Van Ness station

Van Ness station is a Muni Metro station on the Market Street Subway at the intersection of Market Street and Van Ness Avenue (U.S. Route 101) in San Francisco, California.

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Volt

The volt (symbol: V) is the derived unit for electric potential, electric potential difference (voltage), and electromotive force.

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Wawona and 46th Avenue station

46th Avenue and Wawona is a light rail stop on the Muni Metro L Taraval line, located in the Parkside neighborhood of San Francisco, California.

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West Portal station

West Portal station is a Muni Metro station in the West Portal neighborhood in San Francisco, California.

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Western Railway Museum

The Western Railway Museum, in Solano County, California is located on Highway 12 between Rio Vista and Suisun.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muni_Metro

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