F Market & Wharves
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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
Car 1057 painted in the colors of the Cincinnati Street Railway Company
A PCC streetcar on the K Ingleside route on Market Street in 1967
Porto car 122 on Market Street in 1983, during the first Historic Trolley Festival
Streetcar #1053 at 17th and Castro in 1999
PCC streetcar
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The Presidents' Conference Committee car is a type of streetcar that was first built in the United States in the 1930s. The design proved successful domestically, and after World War II it was license
F Market & Wharves
…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 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…
Three PCCs on the San Francisco Municipal Railway's F line. Pictured are an example of one double-ended streetcar and two single-ended cars.
Interior of a PCC car
A PCC streetcar at Boston's Riverside station in the early 1960s
North American (Toronto, left) versus European PCC (The Hague, right): European PCC cars had narrower bodies and (often) larger windows.