page_title: F Market & Wharves
section_title: Worldwide fleet
hierarchical_section_title: F Market & Wharves / Car fleet / Worldwide fleet
caption_attribution_description: 233 boat tram! #muniheritage
context_page_description: 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 both from San Francisco's retired fleet as well as from cities around the world. While the F line is operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway, its operation is supported by Market Street Railway, a nonprofit organization of 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 and the Transbay Terminal, continuing to do so after being launched as a full-time, year-round service in 1995. In March 2000, it was extended at its eastern end to the Embarcadero and northwards along that street to Fisherman's Wharf, and a short section of the route between Market Street and the Transbay Terminal was discontinued.
context_section_description: The Muni's international fleet on the F-Line includes a diverse collection of 10 cars from various operators worldwide:
  Blackpool tramway, in Blackpool, England (including two distinctive open-air boat cars)
  The former Hamburg tram system, in Hamburg, Germany
  Hankai Tramway, in Osaka, Japan
  Kobe Municipal Transportation Bureau & Hiroshima Electric Railway, in Kobe & Hiroshima, Japan
  Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board, in Melbourne, Australia
  Moscow tram system, in Moscow, Russia (5 ft or 1,524 mm system)
  Porto tram system, in Porto, Portugal
  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 4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in (1,435 mm) trucks.
caption: "Boat car" #233 from Blackpool
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