Carter Brothers

[3] Thomas' brother Martin Carter worked as a carriage-maker for the Clark Carriage Factory across the Canada–United States border in Toronto.

Iron castings were made by foundries in San Francisco, Newark, Vallejo, and Santa Cruz; but the company used only higher quality eastern wheels from Whitney or Taylor.

[3] Martin Carter supervised the Newark car shop while Thomas was the company business manager from offices in San Francisco.

Thomas died in 1898, and the company officially closed when Martin retired in 1902, but the Newark shop produced a few more parts until the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

[5] The Society for the Preservation of Carter Railroad Resources operates a railroad museum in Ardenwood Historic Farm Regional Park, Fremont, California, including 1.25 miles (2.01 km) of 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge track and the society's collection of Carter Brother's rolling stock.

Two Carter Brothers cable cars on San Francisco 's Powell Street line
Southern Pacific Coach #39, at the Southern California Railway Museum . It was built by Carter Brothers in 1881 at their Newark shop for the South Pacific Coast Railroad, which was bought by the Southern Pacific in 1887. It was converted into housing for SP railroad workers in 1909. In the mid-1930s it was assigned to track worker Victor S. Martinez, in San Miguel, California. Seven Martinez children were born in this car. When he retired in 1957, he bought the car and moved it to his own property in San Miguel.