This cable car is currently being reconstructed at Muni’s Cable Car Carpentry Shop. When it re-enters service it is slated to be painted in the green and red livery with gray roof used by Market Street Railway Company from 1921 to 1926.

Only a small amount of the frame remains from its predecessor cable car that was built at Muni’s old Elkton Shops in 1962 to replace an earlier car. Then numbered 518, that 1962 car was the first cable car that Muni built essentially new since it took over the Powell cable car operation from predecessor owner Market Street Railway Company in 1944. Muni simplified the construction, using plywood for the roof instead of the traditional tongue-and-groove wood strips. After 60 years, the badly-deteriorated car was taken in for a complete rebuilding, with the traditional methods and high quality Muni has displayed since the 1980s.