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{{short description|San Francisco heritage streetcar line}}
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{{Infobox rail line
| box_width                       = 330px
| name                            = F Market & Wharves
| color                           = {{rcr|MUNI|F}}
| logo                            = F Market & Wharves logo.svg
| logo_width                      = 50px
| image                           = F Line Car 1057.jpg
| image_width                     = 320px
| caption                         = Car 1057 painted in the colors of the Cincinnati Street Railway Company
| type                            = [[Heritage streetcar]]
| system                          = [[San Francisco Municipal Railway]]
| locale                          = [[San Francisco]], [[California]]
| start                           = [[Jones and Beach station|Jones and Beach]]
| end                             = [[Castro station|17th Street and Castro]]
| stations                        = 32
| daily_ridership                 = 19,700 (2019)<ref name=srtp>{{cite web |url=https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/reports-and-documents/2019/11/12-3-19_item_15_short_range_transit_plan_fy19-30.pdf |title=Short Range Transit Plan: Fiscal Year 2019 - Fiscal Year 2030 |publisher=San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency |date=December 2019 |page=47}}</ref>
| open                            = 1982–1987 (special summer service)<br />{{start date|1995|9|1}} (revenue service)
| owner                           = [[San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency]]
| operator                        = [[San Francisco Municipal Railway]]
| character                       = [[At-grade intersection|At grade]], [[street running]]
| stock                           = [[PCC streetcar]]s; [[San Francisco Municipal Railway fleet#Historic streetcar fleet|other historic streetcars]]
| linelength                      = {{convert|6|mi|km|abbr=on}}
| gauge                           = {{RailGauge|ussg|allk=on}}
| electrification                 = {{600 V DC|conductor=overhead}}
| map                             = {{F Market & Wharves}}
}}

The '''F Market & Wharves''' line is one of several [[light rail]] lines in [[San Francisco]], [[California]]. Unlike most other lines in the system, the F line runs as a [[heritage streetcar]] service, almost exclusively using historic equipment from San Francisco's retired fleet and from cities around the world (although buses are added during peak commute hours). While the F line is operated by the [[San Francisco Municipal Railway]] (Muni), its operation is supported by [[Market Street Railway (nonprofit)|Market Street Railway]], a nonprofit organization of [[Tram|streetcar]] enthusiasts which raises funds and helps to restore vintage streetcars.

Introduced as the F Market in 1983, in the first [[San Francisco Historic Trolley Festival]], the service originally operated between the [[Castro District, San Francisco|Castro District]] and the [[San Francisco Transbay Terminal|Transbay Terminal]], continuing to do so after being launched as a full-time, year-round service in 1995.<ref name="chron-1995">{{cite news |last=Nolte |first=Carl |author-link=Carl Nolte |title=New Fervor for Old Streetcars – Market Street line provides nostalgic touch |newspaper=[[The San Francisco Chronicle]] |date=October 24, 1995 |page=A11 |url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/New-Fervor-for-Old-Streetcars-Market-Street-3021664.php |access-date=August 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190817010817/https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/New-Fervor-for-Old-Streetcars-Market-Street-3021664.php |archive-date=August 17, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>  In March 2000, it was extended at its eastern end to the [[Embarcadero (San Francisco)|Embarcadero]] and northwards along that street to [[Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco|Fisherman's Wharf]], and a short section of the route between Market Street and the Transbay Terminal was discontinued.<ref name="chron-2000mar2">{{cite news |last=Epstein |first=Edward |title=New way to the wharf; Merchants hope F–Market line will draw locals to tourist attractions |newspaper=[[The San Francisco Chronicle]] |date=March 2, 2000 |page=A20 |url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/New-Way-to-the-Wharf-Merchants-hope-F-Market-3304845.php |access-date=August 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190225044800/https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/New-Way-to-the-Wharf-Merchants-hope-F-Market-3304845.php |archive-date=February 25, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Despite its heritage status, the F Market & Wharves line is an integral part of Muni's intermodal urban transport network, operating at frequent intervals for 20 hours a day, seven days a week. It carries local commuters and tourists alike, linking residential, business and leisure oriented areas of the city. Unlike the [[San Francisco cable car system]], the cheaper standard Muni fare system applies.

==History==
===Previous F-Line===
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Cable car operations along Market Street began in 1888. Service was electrified in 1906.<ref name=Chronology />

In 1915, the [[San Francisco Municipal Railway]] started the F-Stockton route, which ran from Laguna (later Scott) and Chestnut Streets in the [[Marina District, San Francisco, California|Marina]] down Stockton Street to 4th and Market Streets near [[Union Square, San Francisco|Union Square]], later extended to the Southern Pacific Depot (currently the [[San Francisco 4th and King Street station|Caltrain Depot]]) in 1947. The streetcar line was discontinued in 1951 and was replaced by the [[30 Stockton]] trolleybus route, which still runs today.

The F-line designation was therefore available for use by the current line, although that service is over a completely different route from the F-line of 1915 to 1951.

===Previous lines on Market Street===
[[File:3 MUNI PCC Photos at Market St. near 2nd St. (26320435574).jpg|thumb|left|A [[PCC streetcar]] on the K Ingleside route on Market Street in 1967]]
[[Market Street (San Francisco)|Market Street]] is a major transit artery for the city of San Francisco, and has carried in turn [[Horsecar|horse-drawn streetcars]], [[cable car (railway)|cable cars]] and electric [[tram|streetcars]]. In the 1960s construction began on the [[Market Street subway]], which would carry [[Bay Area Rapid Transit|BART]]'s trains on its lower level. All streetcar lines currently operating in the subway previously ran on the surface of Market Street, and were eventually diverted into the upper level of the tunnel. This diversion, together with the provision of new [[light rail]] cars, resulted in today's [[Muni Metro]] system.

The diversion of the Market Street streetcar lines into tunnel and the replacement of the existing streetcars with new light rail cars was completed by November 1982. However, the street trackage on Market Street was retained, and many of the old streetcars were still in storage.
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===Historic trolley festivals===
{{Main|San Francisco Historic Trolley Festival}}
[[File:1983 SF Historic Trolley Festival - Porto car 122 on Market St at First.jpg|thumb|left|[[Trams in Porto|Porto]] car 122 on Market Street in 1983, during the first Historic Trolley Festival]]
In 1982, [[San Francisco cable car system|San Francisco's cable car lines]] were shut down for almost two years to allow for a major rebuild. Temporary weekend historic streetcar service started on July{{nbsp}}3, 1982 as part of 4th of July celebrations and ran until September of that year.<ref name=Chronology>{{Muni Chronology}}</ref> To provide a more regular alternative tourist attraction during this period, the [[San Francisco Historic Trolley Festival]]s began in 1983.<ref name="perles-tours">{{cite book|last=Perles|first=Anthony|title=Tours of Discovery: A San Francisco Muni Album|year=1984|publisher=[[Interurban Press]]|isbn=0-916374-60-2|pages=136–142|chapter=Chapter 9: The Trolley Festival}}</ref><ref name=Chronology /> These summertime operations of vintage streetcars on Market Street were a joint project of the [[San Francisco Chamber of Commerce]] and Muni.<ref name=perles-tours/>

The trolley festival route went from the [[Transbay Terminal]] at First and Mission Streets to Market, then up the retained Market Street tracks to Duboce Avenue. From there, it followed a 'temporary' streetcar detour built in the 1970s to bypass subway construction under Market: Duboce, Church Street, and [[Castro station|17th Street to Castro]].
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===F-Market Line===
[[File:Muni 1053 at 17th and Castro, September 1999.jpg|thumb|left|Streetcar #1053 at 17th and Castro in 1999]]
The Trolley Festival proved so successful it was repeated every year until 1987. In that year, preparation began for the introduction of a permanent F line. After that year's festival finished, Muni replaced the old Market Street tracks with new ones, restoring tracks to upper Market Street and recreating a line to Castro. Different types of vintage streetcars were evaluated to provide the backbone of the F-line fleet, resulting in the decision to use the [[PCC streetcar|PCC car]], due in part to its historic San Francisco transit use. Fourteen such cars were acquired second-hand from [[Philadelphia]] to add to three of Muni's own retired double-ended PCCs.{{citation needed|date=May 2016}}

On September{{nbsp}}1, 1995, the F line opened<ref name="PRN-1995Jul">{{cite magazine |last=Sebree |first=Mac |author-link=Mac Sebree |title=Kodachrome PCCs Roll Down Market Street |date=November 1995 |magazine=[[Pacific RailNews]] |publisher=[[Pentrex]] |page=68 |url=http://original.trainlife.com/magazines/pages/306/22894/november-1995-page-68 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190617083612/http://original.trainlife.com/magazines/pages/306/22894/november-1995-page-68 |archive-date=June 17, 2019 |url-status=dead |issn=8750-8486}}</ref><ref name="ptj-june96">Ehrlich, Peter. "PCCs by the Bay". ''[[Passenger Train Journal]]'', June 1996 issue, pp. 24–31. [[Pentrex]].</ref> with a parade of [[PCC cars]], painted to represent some of the two dozen North American cities that this type of streetcar once served. Ridership exceeded expectations and the ''8-Market'' [[trolleybus]] route that it had mostly replaced was completely discontinued on December{{nbsp}}29, 1995.<ref name=Chronology /> At that point in history, this was a rare instance in which a streetcar replaced a bus line in operation, rather than the other way around. The need for extra cars resulted in the acquisition of ten [[Peter Witt streetcar|Peter Witt-style cars]] then just being retired in the city of [[Milan]], Italy. These cars were built in the 1920s to a design once common in North American cities, and [[ATM Class 1500|their sister cars]] are still widely used on the [[Trams in Milan|Milan tramway network]].
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===Extension on the Embarcadero===
[[File:Muni 1893 at Pier 39, June 2017.JPG|thumb|left|An F Market & Wharves streetcar at Pier 39]]

The [[Embarcadero, San Francisco|Embarcadero]] is the eastern waterfront roadway of San Francisco, along [[San Francisco Bay]]. At one time busy with port and ferry related traffic, it fell into decline as freight transferred to the [[container terminal]]s of [[Oakland, California|Oakland]] and the [[San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge|Bay Bridge]] replaced the ferries. In the 1960s the elevated [[California State Route 480|Embarcadero Freeway]] was built above, dividing the city from the bay, but was condemned and demolished after the [[1989 Loma Prieta earthquake]]. Proposals for streetcar service along The Embarcadero were put forward as early as 1974,<ref name="embext">{{cite web | title = Historic Streetcars | url = http://www.sfmta.com/cms/mfleet/histcars.php | publisher = San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency | access-date = 2011-02-08}}</ref> and historic streetcar service along The Embarcadero was first provided during the [[San Francisco Historic Trolley Festival#Embarcadero demonstration service|1987 Trolley Festival]], using existing [[San Francisco Belt Railroad|Belt Railroad]] tracks on The Embarcadero and towed diesel generators to provide power.<ref name="PRN-1987Dec">{{cite magazine |last=Jewell |first=Don |title=Muni [regular news column] |date=December 1987 |magazine=[[Pacific RailNews]] |page=39 |url=http://original.trainlife.com/magazines/pages/549/39101/december-1987-page-39 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190608180537/http://original.trainlife.com/magazines/pages/549/39101/december-1987-page-39 |archive-date=June 8, 2019 |url-status=dead |issn=8750-8486}}</ref>

With the freeway demolished, the waterfront started to be redeveloped for leisure and tourist activities, similar to [[Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco, California|Fisherman's Wharf]] and [[Pier 39]] at the northern end of the waterfront. To support this redevelopment, it was decided{{when|date=July 2024}} to rebuild the Embarcadero as a tree-lined [[boulevard]] with streetcar tracks in the median. The section north of Market Street was to be served by an extension of the F line. Tracks were extended on the northern end of Market to connect with the Embarcadero tracks. On March{{nbsp}}4, 2000, service on the F line began operating along the new extension to Fisherman's Wharf,<ref name="msrhist">{{cite web | publisher = Market Street Railway | url = http://www.streetcar.org/mim/streetcars/history/index.html | title = A brief history of the F-line | access-date = March 20, 2006 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061003013218/http://www.streetcar.org/mim/streetcars/history/index.html | archive-date = October 3, 2006}}</ref> replacing bus route 32.<ref name="chron-2000mar2"/><ref name="TAUT-2000Apr">{{cite magazine |title=Systems News |magazine=[[Tramways & Urban Transit]] |publisher=[[Ian Allan Publishing]]/[[Light Rail Transit Association]] |date=April 2000 |location=UK |pages=150–151|issn=1460-8324}}</ref> Service on the short section of the F line between Market Street and the Transbay Terminal was discontinued at that time.<ref name="chron-2000mar2"/> The last F-line trip departed from the Transbay Terminal at 12:55{{nbsp}}a.m. on the night of March{{nbsp}}3,<ref name="TAUT-2000Apr"/> and the track was abandoned in August 2000, the final use being a "farewell" trip by 1916-built work car C1 on August{{nbsp}}18,<ref name="TAUT-2000Nov">{{cite magazine |title=Systems News |magazine=[[Tramways & Urban Transit]] |publisher=[[Ian Allan Publishing]]/[[Light Rail Transit Association]] |date=November 2000 |location=UK |page=431|issn=1460-8324}}</ref> with track removal beginning soon afterwards.<ref name="chron-2000aug15">{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Roadwork to begin Friday on Fremont Street |newspaper=[[The San Francisco Chronicle]] |date=August 15, 2000 |page=A26}}</ref>

A month after the opening of the extension, Muni dedicated a car 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, Streetcar No.{{nbsp}}130, which was originally delivered in 1914, contains wood paneling and is decorated with many quotes from Caen.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Take-a-trip-with-Herb-Caen-who-lives-on-in-an-2607409.php |title=Take a trip with Herb Caen, who lives on in an F-Market streetcar |author=King, John |date=22 September 2005 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=30 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release |url=https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/pressreleases/2014/Press%20Release--SFMTA%20Announces%20Details%20of%20Muni%20Heritage%20Weekend%2010.29.14.pdf |title=SFMTA Announces Details of Muni Heritage Weekend |author=Rose, Paul |date=29 October 2014 |publisher=San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency |access-date=30 June 2016}}</ref>

Service was suspended in March 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. It resumed on May{{nbsp}}15, 2021, with limited hours; full hours resumed on June{{nbsp}}26.<ref>{{cite press release |url=https://www.sfmta.com/blog/welcome-back-f-market-wharves-historic-streetcars-0 |title=Welcome Back to the F Market & Wharves Historic Streetcars |date=May 3, 2021 |first=Mariana |last=Maguire |publisher=San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release |url=https://www.sfmta.com/blog/extended-service-hours-f-market-wharves |title=Extended Service Hours for the F Market & Wharves |first=Enrique |last=Aguilar |date=June 24, 2021 |publisher=San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency}}</ref> Additional weekend afternoon [[short turn]] service between Fisherman's Wharf and the Ferry Building, operated by buses rather than streetcars, was added effective June{{nbsp}}10, 2023.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sfmta.com/travel-updates/service-changes-june-10-2023 |title=Service Changes: June 10, 2023 |date=June 10, 2023 |publisher=San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority}}</ref>

=== Better Market Street ===
The Better Market Street project, a streetscape project launched in the late 2000s to improve Market Street, has a transit component that aims to improve the operations of the F Line. The project would consolidate and eliminate some stops on Market Street and would also construct a new turn-around loop for the F Line at McAllister and 7th Streets.<ref name="better-market-streetsblog">{{cite news|url=https://sf.streetsblog.org/2018/02/13/better-market-street-update/|title=Better Market Street Update|first=Roger|last=Rudick|date=February 13, 2018|access-date=December 11, 2018|work=Streetsblog San Francisco}}</ref> The loop would allow increased service between Fisherman's Wharf and the Civic Center area, which is the section of the line with the highest ridership. Average headways under the service improvement would be 5 minutes instead of the current 7.5-minute scheduled headways.<ref>{{cite report|url=http://sfmea.sfplanning.org/Better%20Market%20Street%20Draft%20EIR%20-%20Vol%20I.pdf|title=Better Market Street Project EIR Volume I|publisher=San Francisco Planning Department|date=February 28, 2019|access-date=March 15, 2019}}</ref>

In 2022, the city was forced to return a $15-million federal grant when it was revealed that they did not expect any construction of the loop to begin before the federally-mandated deadline of September 2025. Construction was shelved indefinitely.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cano |first1=Ricardo |title=S.F. must return $15 million in grants to revitalize Market Street after failing to hit deadline |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-gives-up-15-million-federal-grant-in-Better-17534137.php |access-date=3 November 2022 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |date=25 October 2022}}</ref>

===Proposed extension===
[[File:West portal of Fort Mason Tunnel, June 2017.JPG|thumb|The abandoned railway tunnel under Fort Mason would be part of a planned extension]]
Muni completed a technical feasibility study to extend the F-Line from the vicinity of the existing Jones Street terminal with the assistance of the National Park Service in December 2004. The extended line would extend westward alongside the [[San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park|San Francisco Maritime Museum and Aquatic Park]] and then through the historic (1914) but disused single-track [[Fort Mason Tunnel]], formerly owned by the [[San Francisco Belt Railroad|State Belt Railroad]].

An Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the extension, again led by the National Park Service, commenced in May 2006,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nps.gov/goga/learn/management/extension-of-f-line-streetcar-service-to-fort-mason-center.htm |title=Extension of F-Line Streetcar Service to Fort Mason Center |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=15 March 2013 |website=National Park Service |access-date=30 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150307191008/http://www.nps.gov/goga/learn/management/extension-of-f-line-streetcar-service-to-fort-mason-center.htm |archive-date=7 March 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref> resulting in:
* a draft conceptual engineering report, issued in January 2009<ref>{{cite report |url=https://www.nps.gov/goga/learn/management/upload/NPS-HSC-Conceptual-Engineering-Report-Draft-2009-01-22-small3.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160630190036/https://www.nps.gov/goga/learn/management/upload/NPS-HSC-Conceptual-Engineering-Report-Draft-2009-01-22-small3.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 30, 2016 |title=DRAFT Conceptual Engineering Report |author=URS Corporation |date=22 January 2009 |publisher=National Park Service – Golden Gate National Recreation Area |access-date=30 June 2016 }}</ref>
* a proposed transit operations plan, issued in July 2009<ref name="TransitOps">{{cite report |url=https://www.nps.gov/goga/learn/management/upload/Final-Transit-Ops_2009-07-30_to-NPS-small3.pdf |title=FINAL Task 10 Working Paper: Transit Operations Plan |author=URS Corporation |date=July 2009 |publisher=National Park Service – Golden Gate National Recreation Area |access-date=30 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160630192151/https://www.nps.gov/goga/learn/management/upload/Final-Transit-Ops_2009-07-30_to-NPS-small3.pdf |archive-date=30 June 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* a draft EIS, issued in March 2011<ref>{{cite press release |url=https://www.nps.gov/goga/learn/news/2011-0318.htm |title=Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Extension of F-Line Streetcar Service to Fort Mason Center Now Open for Comment |author1=Picavet, Alexandra |author2=Cullivan, Lynn |date=18 March 2011 |publisher=National Park Service |location=San Francisco, California |access-date=30 June 2016}}</ref>
* the Final EIS, issued in February 2012<ref name="FEIS">{{cite report |url=https://www.nps.gov/goga/learn/management/upload/PEPC_1_cvr_thru_ch2.pdf |title=Final Environmental Impact Statement for Extension of F-Line Streetcar Service to Fort Mason Center |date=February 2012 |access-date=30 June 2016 |publisher=Golden Gate National Recreation Area: San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160630191730/https://www.nps.gov/goga/learn/management/upload/PEPC_1_cvr_thru_ch2.pdf |archive-date=30 June 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

The final document classified areas west of the Fort Mason Tunnel as having "inadequate regional transit access...limited transportation options for transit-dependent residents...[and] infrastructure constraints impacting effectiveness and operations of Fort Mason Center." The Final EIS named a double-tracked extension along Beach Street, a jog north to Aquatic Park, then across Van Ness Avenue to single-tracked service through a retrofitted Fort Mason Tunnel and to a terminus in the Fort Mason Center parking lot as the "preferred alternative".<ref name=FEIS/>

==Car fleet==
{{Further|San Francisco Municipal Railway fleet}}
[[File:F-Line PCC at Balboa Park.jpg|thumb|PCC Car #1061 with the Pacific Electric livery at the Cameron Beach Yard.]]
Muni owns a large selection of equipment for use on the F line, although not all of them are in service at the same time. The car fleet includes four sub-fleets: [[PCC streetcar]]s, [[Peter Witt streetcar]]s, pre-PCC veteran streetcars from San Francisco, and a diverse collection of 10 streetcars and trams from various overseas operators.<ref name="fleet">{{cite web | url = http://www.streetcar.org/mim/streetcars/fleet/index.html | title = The historic streetcars of the F-line fleet | publisher = Market Street Railway | year = 2007 | access-date = 2007-05-14}}</ref>

The line is principally operated by a mixture of the PCC and Peter Witt cars, although other more unusual or historic cars are often in service (including the 913 and 952, iconic streetcars named [[Desire Street|Desire]] since they are from New Orleans).{{cn|date=May 2024}} The modern LRVs used by Muni Metro cannot be used on F Market & Wharves tracks because the overhead line is not compatible with [[Pantograph (transport)|pantograph]] operation (though the older streetcars can operate on most surface sections of the Muni Metro system).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Laubscher |first=Rick |date=2011-12-16 |title=Car 1040: Newest All Over Again |url=https://www.streetcar.org/car_1040_newest_all_over_again/ |access-date=2024-11-24 |website=Market Street Railway |language=en-US}}</ref>

===PCC fleet===
[[File:Three PCCs on Jefferson Street, October 2017.jpg|thumb|Three streetcars – original Muni #1010, ex-Newark #1073, and ex-SEPTA #1059 – on Jefferson Street]]

A fleet of [[PCC streetcar]]s from San Francisco, [[SEPTA|Philadelphia]], and [[Newark City Subway|Newark]], built between 1946 and 1948, operate on the line. {{asof|August 2007}}, MUNI was operating 27 of these cars, restored to various states of service. Among the restored cars in service, three are original San Francisco double-ended PCC cars. Another 16 cars are single-ended cars acquired from [[SEPTA]] in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Philadelphia]] in 1992 (which continues to operate another 18 cars today, retrofitted for ADA compliance), while the remaining 11 cars are single-ended cars acquired from [[New Jersey Transit]] in [[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]] in 2002 (built originally for Minneapolis-St. Paul and acquired from that system in 1953).<ref name="fleetpcc"/>

MUNI has another 30 unrestored PCC cars in long-term storage.<ref name="fleetpcc">{{cite web | title = The PCC: A streetcar named success | url = http://www.streetcar.org/mim/streetcars/fleet/pcc/index.html | publisher = Market Street Railway | year = 2007 | access-date = 2007-10-14}}</ref> The unrestored cars include five additional San Francisco double-ended cars, 10 San Francisco single-ended cars, 12 single-ended cars acquired from St. Louis in 1957, two single-ended cars from Philadelphia, and two single-ended cars from [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania|Pittsburgh]]. A further previously restored car from Philadelphia was written off after a traffic accident in 2003.<ref name="fleetlist">{{cite web | title = F-line fleet operational status | url = http://www.streetcar.org/mim/streetcars/status/index.html | publisher = Market Street Railway | year = 2007 | access-date = 2007-10-14}}</ref>

Many of the restored cars are painted in the color schemes of prominent past and present PCC streetcar operators, including Muni itself and other transit systems.<ref name="fleetpcc"/>
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===Peter Witt fleet===
[[File:AFreshlyPaintedMilanPeterWittTramInTwoToneGreenOnItsThirdWeekOfServiceOnTheFLine.jpg|thumb|right|Former [[ATM Class 1500|Milan Peter Witt]] car carrying the two-tone green color scheme used by Milan between 1926 and the 1970s.]]
Muni operates a fleet of [[Peter Witt streetcar]]s on the line, acquired from [[Milan]], Italy. There are 11 of these cars, all built in 1928 to an Italian derivative of a common streetcar design that operated in many US cities, although never previously in San Francisco.<ref name="fleetmil">{{cite web | title = The Milan 'Peter Witt' trams | url = http://www.streetcar.org/mim/streetcars/fleet/milan/index.html | publisher = Market Street Railway | year = 2007 | access-date = 2007-10-14}}</ref>

Most of San Francisco's Peter Witt cars are currently painted in the overall orange color scheme that they carried in Milan, although one has been repainted into its original livery of yellow and white with black trim, while another is in the two-tone green livery that the cars carried from the 1930s to the 1970s.<ref name="fleetmil"/>
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===San Francisco vintage fleet===
[[File:San Francisco 130 at foot of Market.jpg|thumb|Veteran San Francisco streetcar 130 was built for Muni in 1914, and operates in the livery it carried in 1939.]]
The F-Line fleet also includes a fleet of pre-PCC vintage cars built between 1895 and 1924 for use in San Francisco. Three passenger cars were built for Muni itself, and a further two for the independent [[Market Street Railway Company]] that ran competing streetcar services in San Francisco until acquired by Muni in 1944. The final car is a works flat car, built for Muni in 1916 and used for hauling rails, ties, and other materials needed to maintain a streetcar system.<ref name="fleetvin">{{cite web | title = Muni's incomparable antique streetcars | url = http://www.streetcar.org/mim/streetcars/fleet/antique/index.html | publisher = Market Street Railway | year = 2007 | access-date = 2007-10-14}}</ref>

The cars carry a variety of former San Francisco streetcar color schemes.<ref name="fleetvin"/>
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===Worldwide fleet===
[[File:233 boat tram! -muniheritage (21734580135).jpg|thumb|"Boat tram" #233 from Blackpool]]
The Muni's international fleet on the F-Line includes a diverse collection of 10 cars from various operators worldwide:<ref name="fleetvin"/>
* [[Blackpool tramway]], in [[Blackpool]], [[England]] (including two distinctive open-air [[Blackpool tramway#Boat cars|boat cars]])
* The former [[Trams in Hamburg|Hamburg tram system]], in [[Hamburg]], [[Germany]]
* [[Hankai Tramway]], in [[Osaka]], [[Japan]]
* [[Kobe Municipal Transportation Bureau]] & [[Hiroshima Electric Railway]], in [[Kobe]] & [[Hiroshima]], [[Japan]]
* [[Trams in Melbourne|Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board]], in [[Melbourne]], [[Australia]]
* [[Trams in Moscow|Moscow tram system]], in [[Moscow]], [[Russia]] ({{Track gauge|5ft|lk=on|disp=or}} system)
* [[Trams in Porto|Porto tram system]], in [[Porto]], [[Portugal]]
* [[Brussels trams|STIB/MIVB]], in [[Brussels]], [[Belgium]].

All the cars carry the color schemes of their original operators, except for the Brussels car, which currently carries a color scheme paying tribute to San Francisco's twin city of [[Zürich]] in [[Switzerland]] (the streetcars actually in use in Zürich use meter-gauge and therefore cannot be moved to San Francisco). The Moscow trams had to be equipped with {{Track gauge|4ft8.5in}} [[Bogie|trucks]].{{citation needed|date=June 2015}}
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| colspan="2" | {{access icon}} {{munis|Jones and Beach}}
| rowspan="4" | [[Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco|Fisherman's Wharf]]
| {{rint|heritage|pcc}} {{Rint|sanfrancisco|E}} [[E Embarcadero|Embarcadero]], {{Rint|sanfrancisco|cable}} [[San Francisco cable car system|Powell-Hyde]]
|-
| {{access icon}} {{munis|Jefferson and Taylor}}
| rowspan="2" | {{access icon}} {{munis|Beach and Mason}}
| rowspan="2" | {{Unbulleted list
   | {{rint|heritage|pcc}} {{Rint|sanfrancisco|E}} [[E Embarcadero|Embarcadero]], {{Rint|sanfrancisco|cable}} [[San Francisco cable car system|Powell-Mason]]
   | {{ferry icon}} [[Blue and Gold Fleet]], [[San Francisco Bay Ferry]] (at [[Pier 41]])
   | {{Bus icon}} Muni: {{Muni route|28}}, {{Muni route|39}}
   | {{Bus icon}} [[Golden Gate Transit]]: [[List of Golden Gate Transit routes#132|132]], [[List of Golden Gate Transit routes#154|154]], [[List of Golden Gate Transit routes#172|172]]
   }}
|-
| {{access icon}} {{munis|Jefferson and Powell}}
|-
| {{access icon}} {{munis|The Embarcadero and Stockton}}
| {{access icon}} {{munis|Beach and Stockton}}
| {{Unbulleted list
   | {{rint|heritage|pcc}} {{Rint|sanfrancisco|E}} [[E Embarcadero|Embarcadero]]
   | {{Bus icon}} Muni: {{Muni route|39}}
   | Serves [[Pier 39]]
   }}
|-
| colspan="4" style="text-align:center;" |Inbound splits from The Embarcadero towards Jefferson Street; outbound joins The Embarcadero from Beach Street
|-
| colspan="2" | {{access icon}} {{munis|The Embarcadero and Bay}}
|
|{{Unbulleted list
   | {{rint|heritage|pcc}} {{Rint|sanfrancisco|E}} [[E Embarcadero|Embarcadero]]
   | {{ferry icon}} [[Alcatraz Cruises]] (at Pier 33)
   | {{Bus icon}} Muni: {{Muni route|8}}, {{Muni route|8BX}}
   | {{Bus icon}} Golden Gate Transit: [[List of Golden Gate Transit routes#132|132]], [[List of Golden Gate Transit routes#154|154]], [[List of Golden Gate Transit routes#172|172]]
   | Serves [[Pier 35 (San Francisco)|Pier 35]]
   }}
|-
| colspan="2" | {{access icon}} {{munis|The Embarcadero and Sansome}}
|
| {{rint|heritage|pcc}} {{Rint|sanfrancisco|E}} [[E Embarcadero|Embarcadero]]
|-
| colspan="2" | {{access icon}} {{munis|The Embarcadero and Greenwich}}
|
|{{Unbulleted list
   | {{rint|heritage|pcc}} {{Rint|sanfrancisco|E}} [[E Embarcadero|Embarcadero]]
   | {{Bus icon}} Muni: {{Muni route|82X}}
   }}
|-
| colspan="2" | {{access icon}} {{munis|The Embarcadero and Green}}
|
|{{Unbulleted list
   | {{rint|heritage|pcc}} {{Rint|sanfrancisco|E}} [[E Embarcadero|Embarcadero]]
   | Serves [[Exploratorium]]
   }}
|-
| colspan="2" | {{access icon}} {{munis|The Embarcadero and Broadway}}
|
| rowspan="2" | {{rint|heritage|pcc}} {{Rint|sanfrancisco|E}} [[E Embarcadero|Embarcadero]]
|-
| colspan="2" | {{access icon}} {{munis|The Embarcadero and Washington}}
|
|-
| colspan="2" | {{access icon}} {{munis|Ferry Building}}
| [[Financial District, San Francisco|Financial District]]
| {{Unbulleted list
   | {{rint|heritage|pcc}} {{Rint|sanfrancisco|E}} [[E Embarcadero|Embarcadero]]
   | {{ferry icon}} [[Golden Gate Ferry]], [[San Francisco Bay Ferry]], [[Treasure Island Ferry]] (at [[San Francisco Ferry Building|Ferry Building]])
   | {{Bus icon}} [[SamTrans]]
   | {{Bus icon}} [[SolTrans]]: 82
}}
|-
| colspan="2" | {{access icon}} {{munis|Don Chee Way and Steuart}}
| rowspan="7" | [[Financial District, San Francisco|Financial District]]
|{{Unbulleted list
   | Serves the [[San Francisco Railway Museum]].
   | {{Bus icon}} Muni: {{Muni route|2}}, {{Muni route|6}}, {{Muni route|7X}}, {{Muni route|9}}, {{Muni route|14}}, {{Muni route|14X}}, {{Muni route|21}}, {{Muni route|31}}
   }}
|-
| {{access icon}} {{munis|Market and Main}}
| {{access icon}} {{munis|Market and Drumm}}
| {{Unbulleted list
   | {{rint|BART}} [[Bay Area Rapid Transit]] at {{bart|Embarcadero}}
   | {{Rint|sanfrancisco|metro}} {{Rint|sanfrancisco|j}} {{Rint|sanfrancisco|k}} {{rint|sanfrancisco|l}} {{rint|sanfrancisco|m}} {{rint|sanfrancisco|n}} {{rint|sanfrancisco|s}} at {{munis|Embarcadero}}
   | {{rint|sanfrancisco|cable}}''[[San Francisco cable car system#Network|California St.]]''
   | {{bus icon}} Muni: {{Muni route|12}}, {{Muni route|41}}, {{Muni route|82X}}
   | {{bus icon}} [[Amtrak Thruway]], [[Golden Gate Transit]], [[Presidio Go Shuttle]], [[SamTrans]]
   }}
|-
|{{access icon}} {{munis|Market and 1st Street}}
|{{munis|Market and Battery}}
|{{bus icon}} [[AC Transit]], Golden Gate Transit, Muni, SamTrans
|-
| {{munis|Market and 2nd Street}}
| {{munis|Market and New Montgomery}}
| {{Unbulleted list
   | {{rint|BART}} [[Bay Area Rapid Transit]] at {{bart|Montgomery Street}}
   | {{Rint|sanfrancisco|metro}} {{Rint|sanfrancisco|j}} {{Rint|sanfrancisco|k}} {{rint|sanfrancisco|l}} {{rint|sanfrancisco|m}} {{rint|sanfrancisco|n}} {{rint|sanfrancisco|s}} at {{munis|Montgomery Street}}
   | {{bus icon}} AC Transit, Golden Gate Transit, Muni, SamTrans
   }}
|-
|{{access icon}} {{munis|Market and 3rd Street}}
|{{access icon}} {{munis|Market and Kearny}}
|{{bus icon}} AC Transit, Golden Gate Transit, Muni, SamTrans
|-
|{{munis|Market and 4th Street}}
|{{munis|Market and Stockton}}
| rowspan="2" | {{Unbulleted list
   | {{rint|BART}} [[Bay Area Rapid Transit]] at {{bart|Powell Street}}
   | {{Rint|sanfrancisco|metro}} {{Rint|sanfrancisco|j}} {{Rint|sanfrancisco|k}} {{rint|sanfrancisco|l}} {{rint|sanfrancisco|m}} {{rint|sanfrancisco|n}} {{rint|sanfrancisco|s}} at {{munis|Powell Street}}
   | {{Rint|sanfrancisco|metro}} {{rint|sanfrancisco|t}} at {{munis|Union Square/Market Street}}
   | {{rint|sanfrancisco|cable}}''[[San Francisco cable car system#Network|Powell-Hyde, Powell-Mason]]''
   | {{bus icon}} AC Transit, Golden Gate Transit, Muni, SamTrans
   }}
|-
| colspan="2" |{{access icon}} {{munis|Market and 5th Street}}
|-
|{{munis|Market and 6th Street}}
|{{munis|Market and Taylor}}
| rowspan="5" |[[Civic Center, San Francisco|Civic Center]],<br/>[[Tenderloin, San Francisco|Tenderloin]]
|{{bus icon}} AC Transit, Golden Gate Transit, Muni, SamTrans
|-
|{{access icon}} {{munis|Market and 7th Street}}
|{{munis|Market and 7th Street}}
| rowspan="2" | {{Unbulleted list
   | {{rint|BART}} [[Bay Area Rapid Transit]] at {{bart|Civic Center}}
   | {{Rint|sanfrancisco|metro}} {{Rint|sanfrancisco|j}} {{Rint|sanfrancisco|k}} {{rint|sanfrancisco|l}} {{rint|sanfrancisco|m}} {{rint|sanfrancisco|n}} {{rint|sanfrancisco|s}} at {{munis|Civic Center/UN Plaza}}
   | {{bus icon}} AC Transit, Golden Gate Transit, Muni, SamTrans
   }}
|-
|{{munis|Market and 8th Street}}
|{{access icon}} {{munis|Market and Hyde}}
|-
|{{munis|Market and 9th Street}}
|{{munis|Market and Larkin}}
|{{bus icon}} Muni: {{Muni route|6}}, {{Muni route|7}}, {{Muni route|9}}, {{Muni route|9R}}, {{Muni route|19}}, {{Muni route|21}}, {{Muni route|83X}}, <small>AC Transit, SamTrams</small>
|-
| colspan="2" |{{access icon}} {{munis|Market and Van Ness}}
| {{Unbulleted list
   | {{Rint|sanfrancisco|metro}} {{Rint|sanfrancisco|j}} {{Rint|sanfrancisco|k}} {{rint|sanfrancisco|l}} {{rint|sanfrancisco|m}} {{rint|sanfrancisco|n}} {{rint|sanfrancisco|s}} at {{munis|Van Ness}}
   | {{bus icon}} Muni: {{Muni route|6}}, {{Muni route|7}}, {{Muni route|9}}, {{Muni route|9R}}, [[Van Ness BRT]] ({{Muni route|47}}, {{Muni route|49}}, {{Muni route|79X}})
   | {{rint|bus}} Regional bus services: AC Transit, SamTrans
   }}
|-
| colspan="2" |{{access icon}} {{munis|Market and Gough}}
| rowspan="2" |[[Hayes Valley, San Francisco|Hayes Valley]]
|{{Ubl|{{bus icon}} AC Transit: [[List of AC Transit routes#All Nighter service|800]]|{{bus icon}} Muni: {{Muni route|6}}, {{Muni route|7}}}}
|-
|{{access icon}} {{munis|Market and Guerrero}}
|{{access icon}} {{munis|Market and Laguna}}
|-
|{{access icon}} {{munis|Market and Dolores}}
|{{access icon}} {{munis|Market and Buchanan}}
| rowspan="2" |[[Duboce Triangle, San Francisco|Duboce Triangle]]
|-
| colspan="2" |{{access icon}} {{munis|Market and Church}}
|{{Ubl|{{Rint|sanfrancisco|metro}} {{Rint|sanfrancisco|j}} (surface) {{Rint|sanfrancisco|k}} {{rint|sanfrancisco|l}} {{rint|sanfrancisco|m}} {{rint|sanfrancisco|s}} at {{munis|Church}}|{{bus icon}} Muni: {{Muni route|22}}, {{Muni route|37}}}}
|-
| colspan="2" |{{access icon}} {{munis|Market and Sanchez}}
| rowspan="3" |[[The Castro, San Francisco|The Castro]]
| rowspan="2" |{{bus icon}} Muni: {{Muni route|37}}
|-
| colspan="2" |{{access icon}} {{munis|Market and Noe}}
|-
| colspan="2" |{{access icon}} {{munis|17th Street and Castro}}
|{{Ubl|{{Rint|sanfrancisco|metro}} {{Rint|sanfrancisco|k}} {{rint|sanfrancisco|l}} {{rint|sanfrancisco|m}} {{rint|sanfrancisco|s}} at {{munis|Castro}}|{{bus icon}} Muni: {{Muni route|24}}, {{Muni route|35}}, {{Muni route|37}}}}
|}
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==See also==
*[[List of heritage railroads in the United States#California|List of heritage railroads in California]]
*[[San Francisco Municipal Railway fleet]]

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==External links==
{{Commons category}}
*[http://www.streetcar.org Market Street Railway website]
*[http://www.nextmuni.com/googleMap/?a=sf-muni&r=F F Market Route Map with live updates on streetcar locations]

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