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Market Street Railway is San Francisco Municipal Railway's (Muni) 1,200-member nonprofit preservation partner. It relies on private contributions to help keep San Francisco’s famed historic streetcars of the F Market & Wharves line and the national landmark cable cars running to this day. Market Street Railway maintains a vintage vehicle restoration facility at 1 Buchanan Street, in the shadow of the 1937 San Francisco Mint. It is here that Market Street Railway volunteers restore historic vehicles before donating them to Muni. Market Street Railway borrows the name of the Market Street Railway Company, a former commercial streetcar and bus operator in San Francisco. ==History== Founded in 1976, Market Street Railway members created the successful San Francisco Trolley Festivals of the 1980s that resulted in the permanent return of streetcars to Market Street in the form of the F Market & Wharves—the most popular service of its kind in all of North America. The F-line carries more than double the ridership of the bus lines it replaced. Over the past twenty years, Market Street Railway has helped Muni to acquire and restore more than a dozen historic streetcars and cable cars for service, adding diversity to Muni’s unmatched historic fleet. Market Street Railway's restoration corps has done much of this restoration work themselves. Its volunteers also clean the interiors of the F-line cars at the Castro Street Terminal to improve rider experience. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Market Street Railway (nonprofit)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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