F Market PCC cars at Jones Street terminal. The lead car is a San Francisco double-ended car painted in honor of the Illinois Terminal railway The F Market line is one of several light rail lines in San Francisco, California. Unlike the other LRV lines, the F Market line is operated as a heritage railway using exclusively historical equipment both from San Francisco's retired fleet as well as from cities around the world. Whilst the F Market line is operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway, that operation is supported by the Market Street Railway, a nonprofit organization of streetcar enthusiasts which raises funds and helps to restore vintage streetcars.
Cars
Former Milan Peter Witt streetcar turning into the foot of Market Street Veteran San Francisco streetcar 130 turning into the foot of Market Street Included in the equipment are:
(Not all cars are currently in service.)
Muni operates a large electric trolleybus fleet whose catenaries are compatible with the overhead cables that power F Market streetcars. These buses are occasionally pressed into service on the F Market line, particularly if a streetcar has broken down somewhere on the track and other streetcars cannot get around it.
Stations on the F Market line
The trolleys operate continuously, reversing direction at the ends of the line. The stations are as follows (transfers to other rail transit are noted):
- Jones (near Piers 45 and 47 and the Waterfront end of the Powell/Hyde cable car line)
- Taylor (only when approaching Jones)
- Mason (only when departing from Jones, near the Waterfront end of the Powell/Mason cable car line))
- Stockton (only when departing from Jones)
- Pier 39 (near Fisherman's Wharf)
- Bay
- Chestnut
- Greenwich (near the Filbert steps)
- Green (near the Fog City Diner)
- Broadway
- Washington
- Ferry Terminal
- Steuart
- At this point, the line leaves the Embarcadero and turns southwest, passing briefly through a private right of way before coming onto Market Street.
- Main and Drumm (near the Embarcadero end of the California Street cable car line, and the Embarcadero BART/Muni Metro station)
- 1st and Battery
- 2nd and Montgomery (near the Montgomery BART/Muni Metro station)
- 3rd and Kearny
- 4th and Stockton
- 5th and Powell (near the Market Street end of the Powell/Hyde and Powell/Mason cable car lines, and the Powell BART/Muni Metro station)
- 6th and Taylor
- 7th and Jones
- 8th and Hyde (near the Civic Center BART/Muni Metro station)
- 9th and Larkin
- Van Ness (U.S. Highway 101; near the Van Ness Muni Metro station)
- Haight and Gough
- Laguna and Guerrero
- Delores and Duboce
- 14th and Church
- 15th and Sanchez (near the Church Street Muni Metro station)
- 16th and Noe
- 17th and Castro (near the Castro Muni Metro station)
Trivia
The cars of the F Market line contain typical advertising from their places and times of origin.
The F Market line operates a car dedicated to Herb Caen, the noted columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle perhaps most famous for coining the phrase Baghdad by the Bay to describe The City. The car contains wood paneling and is decorated with many quotes from Cain.
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