this car was built in 1896 as a single truck car, as the hermosa. rebuilt to double truck befor the turn of the century,then in 1918 it went into elkton shops,and emerged on oct 10 1919 as car 746. location is possably near the shop's

According to Alvin Fickewirth in "California Railroads," United Railroads of San Francisco was incorporated March 4, 1902 as a result of a merger of San Francico & San Mateo Electric Railway, Sutter Street Railway and the Sutro Railroad Company. In 1921, operations were merged into the Market Street Railway Co. and in 1944 into the Municipal Railway of San Francisco.