cable cars

     

A cable car is any of a variety of transportation systems relying on cables to pull vehicles along or lower them at a steay rate, or a vehicle on these systems.

Trivia about cable cars

  • Though they were designated a landmark in 1964, you can still ride them up & down the streets of San Francisco
  • You can take the Powell-Mason line of these to a museum of them in San Francisco
  • Andrew S. Hallidie invented these & helped install them in San Francisco in 1873
  • An engineer saw a streetcar slide down Nob Hill, killing 5 horses, & came up with this better system

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