No. 9 – Market Street Railway Company, 1927-1936
This cable car is painted in the first version of the locally famous “White Front” livery of Market Street Railway Company, worn by Powell Street cable cars from about 1927 until about 1936.
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No. 10 – San Francisco Municipal Railway, 1984-current
This cable car was built in 1893 in the East Bay town of Newark by Carter Brothers. It was numbered 510 until Muni dropped the first number on Powell cable cars in the 1970s. Car 510 served the Sacramento-Clay line until the 1906 earthquake and fire, and then was moved over to Powell Street, where it has run ever since, almost exclusively on the Powell-Mason line until 1956; on both the Mason and Hyde lines since 1957. Car 10 was rebuilt by Muni’s shops in 1960.
No. 11 – Market Street Railway Co., 1893-1902/Sacramento-Clay
This is one of the original 1893 cable cars built in the East Bay by Carter Brothers. It wears the red livery of the line where it first ran, from the Ferry to Golden Gate Park via Sacramento and Clay Streets.
No. 12 – Market Street Railway Company, 1937-1944
This cable car is painted in the second version of the locally famous “White Front” livery of Market Street Railway Company, worn by Powell Street cable cars from about 1927 until the Municipal Railway took over the Powell Street lines in 1944.
No. 13 – United Railroads, 1907-1921
The great earthquake and fire of April 1906 destroyed virtually the entire Powell Street cable car fleet. To replace the Powell Street fleet, owner United Railroads used cable cars that had been working the Sacramento-Clay line and were stored outside the fire zone.
No. 14 – San Francisco Municipal Railway, 1984-current
Powell Cable Car 14 was built in 1963 by Muni crafts workers at the old Elkton Shops at Ocean and San Jose Avenues. Then numbered 514, it replaced an original 1887 cable car built by contractors for Mahoney Brothers, who installed the Powell Street cable operation on a turnkey basis.
No. 15 – Market Street Railway Co., 1893-1905/Powell-Mason
This striking yellow cable car displays the livery that Powell-Mason cable cars wore from 1893 to around 1905. It was recreated with help from our non-profit group.
No. 16 – San Francisco Municipal Railway (1944-46)
When it bought out Market Street Railway in 1944, Muni’s official colors for its streetcars and buses were blue with yellow trim. Muni painted two Powell cable cars into this scheme (today’s No. 3 and No. 10).
No. 17 – San Francisco Municipal Railway, 1984-current
This cable car was built in 1887 as part of the original Ferries & Cliff House Railway system, for the general contractor Mahoney Brothers. It features the “Bombay” roof style, with two rows of windows in the raised clerestory ceiling and eyebrow shaped windows at the ends of the roof, a more complex design than the simpler roof on Powell cars built by the Carter Brothers in 1893.
No. 18 – Market Street Railway Company, 1921-1926
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.
