Cable car (railway)
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A cable car is a type of cable railway used for mass transit in which rail cars are hauled by a continuously moving cable running at a constant speed. Individual cars stop and start by releasing and g
A San Francisco cable car on the Powell & Hyde line
Winding drums on the London and Blackwall cable-operated railway, 1840
Cable Driving Plant, Designed and Constructed by Poole & Hunt, Baltimore, MD. Drawing by P.F. Goist, circa 1882. The powerhouse has two horizontal single-cylinder engines. The lithograph shows a hypothetical prototype of a cable powerhouse, rather than any actual built structure. Poole & Hunt, machinists and engineers, was a major cable industry designer and contractor and manufacturer of gearing, sheaves, shafting and wire rope drums. They did work for cable railways in Baltimore, Chicago, Hoboken, Kansas City, New York, and Philadelphia.
A San Francisco cable car travels along California Street in the city's Financial District.
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, California. The system forms part of the intermodal urban transport
Cable car (railway)
…demonstrated a cable car at New Orleans and was issued U.S. patent 97,343. In 1873, the Clay Street Hill Railroad, which later became part of the San Francisco cable car system, was first tested. Promoted by Andrew Smith Hallidie with design work by William Eppelsheimer, the line's grips became the model for other cable car…
Cable car on Hyde Street in 2023, with Alcatraz Island and Fisherman's Wharf in the background
Powell–Hyde cable car crossing Lombard Street on Russian Hill
The Clay Street Hill Railroad in its early years
A preserved Sutter Street Railway car