Market Street Railway is the nonprofit preservation partner of the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni), the city agency that owns and operates San Francisco's transit system, including its historic streetcars and cable cars.
Our group's leaders were the driving force in making vintage streetcars a full-time part of the San Francisco scene in the 1980s and 1990s.
While we support Muni's historic transit activities, we are not part of Muni and we receive no government money whatsoever.
We rely instead on private donations and membership dues to help keep San Francisco's past present in the future by serving as an effective independent advocate for the famed historic streetcars of the F-line, and the national landmark cable cars, which together carry more than 40,000 riders per day.