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The San Francisco cable car system is the world's last manually operated cable car system and an icon of the city of San Francisco. The system forms part of the intermodal urban transport network operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway, which also includes the separate E Embarcadero and F Market & Wharves heritage streetcar lines, and ...
The San Francisco cable car system is the world's last manually operated cable car system and an icon of the city of San Francisco. The system forms part of the intermodal urban transport network operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway , which also includes the separate E Embarcadero and F Market & Wharves heritage streetcar lines, and ...
Step into a bygone era of transportation and engineering marvels at the San Francisco Cable Car Museum, where the iconic clang of bells and rumble of cables ...
Rare photographs and detailed, comprehensive 100 year history of San Francisco's Cable Car System. General information and a virtual tour of the Cable Car Museum.
All four cable routes (California, Powell, Hyde, and Mason) begin at the Cable Car Museum. The powerhouse of these four cable systems, which consists of large electric motors, gears, and pulleys (also called “sheaves”), can be seen from the viewing deck within the museum.
1 maj 2010 · The museum is the hub of the city’s cable car system, a clamoring dynamo of giant spinning sheaves that pull the cable cars up the city’s famously steep streets.
The San Francisco cable car system is the world's last manually operated cable car system.
