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	Cable car - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A cable car is any of a variety of transportation systems relying on cables to pull vehicles along or lower them at a steady rate, or a vehicle on these systems.
		A cable car (railway), a street railway system using a cable under the road to pull the cars along.
		Funiculars, consisting of a pair of railway cars that alternately ascend and descend an inclined right-of-way, attached to a common cable.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cable_car (201 words)

	San Francisco cable car system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The cable car system forms part of the intermodal urban transport network operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway, or Muni as it is better known.
		The latter term applies to all the cars currently operating in San Francisco, and is a historical term distinguishing this style of car from an earlier style where the open grip section and the enclosed section were separate four-wheel cars (known as the grip car and trailer).
		Prospective cable car crews are screened to ensure that they have a good personality and are suitable for dealing with large numbers of tourists and leaving a good impression of the city, and some crew members are locally well-known personalities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/San_Francisco_cable_car_system (2541 words)

	How Cable Cars Operate
		The cable car's grip – essentially a 300-pound-plus pair of pliers – extends through a slot between the rails and grabs hold of the cable to pull the car along.
		On Powell Street cars the lever on the rear platform operates the rear truck wheel brakes, while the gripman’s foot pedal in the front compartment engages the wheel brakes on the four front wheels.
		This is necessary since the grip person on an uphill car cannot see automobiles or cable cars on the other street and may not have time to make an emergency stop at the intersection.
	www.cablecarmuseum.org /archive/Anat/Anat.html (1548 words)

	The Cable Car Home Page - How Do Cable Cars Work?
		The jaws of the grip push the dies against the cable, holding it tightly, causing the car to move at the speed of the cable.
		On straight, level track, when the cable is not held in the grip of a passing cable car, the cable runs on a series of vertical carrying pulleys.
		The first cable car line to include a curve in its revenue trackage was the Presidio & Ferries Railway, which had to move cars at an oblique angle from Columbus to Union Street.
	www.cable-car-guy.com /html/cchow.html (3657 words)

	San Diego History
		It was used for switching the cars from the main line into the barn, and it also was the point at which the two cables came in from the street, and where the gripman changed from the "downtown" to the "uptown" cable.
		The faster cable was pulled by a "winder" or big wheel sixteen feet in diameter, while the "winder" for the slower one was twelve feet in diameter.
		Sometimes a broken strand of the cable would wind around the grip, and you couldn't let go; the runaway car then was said to be "carrying in the rope." However, if you jammed on your track-brake, which worked on the rails instead of on the wheels, you could break loose the strand.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/56january/cablecars.htm (901 words)

	Cable Cars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The car is pulled along the cable by a handheld puller, and has a built-in follower brake assembly to position the car anywhere along the cableway.
		The cable car width is 27 inches (68 cm), the length is 52 inches (132 cm), and the distance from the cable to the floor is 73 inches (185 cm).
		The puller is fitted to the cable with the handle pointing in the direction the car is to be moved and the free end of the brake belting must be toward the upgrade side.
	www.rickly.com /sgi/cable_cars.htm (847 words)

	The Cable Car Home Page
		The southbound cable car was climbing the hill and reportedly hit her outside of the crosswalk.
		After the O/J/H line was abandoned in 1954, Muni sold the car to operator of a cattle feedlot in central California, who mounted it on a motorized trucks and operated it on a private rail line.
		Cable car crews walked off the job for two hours in the afternoon, claiming that management had failed to follow agreed-upon procedures in firing two employees accused of mishandling funds.
	www.cable-car-guy.com /html/ccmain.html (3396 words)

	Cable cars - The Gauge - Model Train Forum - Scale Railroad Discussion & Model Trains
		However I am looking for an another type of cablecars (sorry for the insufficient information), which are moved by cables on tracks like in San Francisco or in the air like the cabs in mountains or in Lissabon over the water, especially I am interested in freight air cable cars and their surface equipment.
		Cable cars are passenger-carrying rail vehicles that are pulled by an underground cable through city streets.
		San Francisco also has trolleys (trams) in addition to cable cars--you included a picture of a trolley, which is different from a cable car in that it is powered by electricity, whereas a cable car is pulled by a moving cable.
	www.the-gauge.com /showthread.php?t=8917 (1077 words)

	Fodors.com > Features > Sights > San Francisco: How Cable Cars Spared the City's Hills and Horses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When the conductor wants to put a car in motion, he or she operates a handgrip, the end of which grabs the cable, allowing the car to move along with the cable.
		Historians have pointed out that without cable cars the city's hills might well have been leveled, or at least reduced in height, as happened in Manhattan and other urban areas that expanded before the cars were invented.
		Most of the cars date from the last century, though the cars and lines had a complete overhaul during the early 1980s and the cables are replaced every three to six months.
	www.fodors.com /features/nfdisplay1.cfm?name=si/000809_si_cablecars.cfm&CFID=1307064&CFTOKEN=23064613 (519 words)

	No. 244: Cable Car
		Cable cars were the clever answer to a problem.
		By 1890 -- in the blink of an eye -- cable cars were made obsolete by the electric streetcar.
		The cable cars are sustained by sentiment, of course, but they also survive because they were the right technology in the right place.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi244.htm (469 words)

	San Francisco's world-famous cable cars
		Cable car No. 42, lovingly restored by MSR volunteers and Muni craftspeople, officially returned to service on June 3 with Mayor Gavin Newsom on the running board.
		Additionally, there are unique cable cars from now-vanished lines which Market Street Railway and the Cable Car Museum are working to return to service in the future.
		If a cable car is going faster than that, it’s a sure thing that the car is going downhill and the grip is not holding the rope tightly.
	www.streetcar.org /mim/cable (855 words)

	San Francisco Cable Cars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Despite being a huge tourist draw, and limited to three remaining lines, the cable cars of San Francisco are still a fully functioning part of the transit system.
		A "grip" clamps onto a constantly moving loop of braided steel cable under the street, and this is what provides the motive force for the car.
		Additional information about the cable car system, as well as the complete instructions for cable car operation, are available at the Cable Car Museum site.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /rob.novak/San_Francisco/Cable_Cars/cable_cars.html (473 words)

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		A synchronous cable made of steel has to be 10^50 times bigger in the middle than at the ends and weigh 10^52 times what it can support.
		A large cable rotating in empty space can catch a spacecraft with one of its tips, hold onto it for a certain length of time, subjecting it all the while to centrifugal forces, and then release it with altered velocity.
		Maximum velocity change, twice the velocity of the cable tips with respect to the middle, is achieved when the spacecraft is carried through a skyhook rotation of 180 degrees.
	www.frc.ri.cmu.edu /~hpm/project.archive/1976.skyhook/papers/endsky.pox (5465 words)

	SF Muni: Cable Car
		Muni's 43nd annual Cable Car Bell-Ringing Contest was presented by Muni, with the support of the Union Square Association, the Friends of the Cable Car Museum, and ING Financial.
		Muni's 42nd annual Cable Car Bell-Ringing Contest was sponsored by Muni, the Union Square Association, the Friends of the Cable Car Museum, and ING Financial.
		Muni's 41st annual Cable Car Bell-Ringing Contest was sponsored by Muni, the Union Square Association, the Friends of the Cable Car Museum, and ING Financial.
	www.sfmuni.com /cms/mms/aboutmun/cablecar.htm#bellringing (1439 words)

	Cable Cars \| Museum/Attraction Review \| San Francisco \| Frommers.com
		The speed of the car, therefore, is determined by the speed of the cable, which is a constant 9 1/2 mph -- never more, never less.
		The two types of cable cars in use hold a maximum of 90 and 100 passengers, and the limits are rigidly enforced.
		Hallidie's cable cars have been imitated and used throughout the world, but all have been replaced by more efficient means of transportation.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/sanfrancisco/A25131.html (554 words)

	San Francisco Cable Cars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		San Francisco's cable cars are unique in that they are the only street railway in which the cars do not operate under their own power.
		Instead, the cars are propelled mechanically, by "gripping" a continuously moving steel cable which runs in a conduit underneath a slot between the rails.
		A map of the cable car routes that survived the earthquake and fire of 1906, including the current routes
	web.presby.edu /~jtbell/transit/SanFrancisco/CableCar (1028 words)

	Bay City Guide : Cable Cars
		The cable car was introduced to San Francisco on August 2, 1873.
		Cable cars remained the primary mode of transportation until the 1906 earthquake.
		San Francisco's beloved cable cars are the only vehicles of their kind still in operation and designated National Landmarks.
	www.sanfranciscoonline.com /top_ten_attractions/tt_cablecars.html (446 words)

	Muni cable cars' on-time rate climbs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The majority of the famed cars are arriving at their stops on time now, Muni officials announced yesterday, three months after they promised to improve a dismal 18 percent on-time performance rate.
		Tourists and commuters alike had been left waiting, and waiting, as long as half an hour for cable cars that were supposed to arrive every six minutes.
		But cable car gripman Walter Scott III said it doesn't cut it anymore in the era of downtown traffic jams, double-parked trucks and the year-round tourist season.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/06/05/MN181773.DTL (733 words)

	Cable Cars/Museum- San Francisco, CA - VirtualTourist.com
		The CABLE CAR was introduced to San Francisco on August 2, 1873 and the idea was conceived by wire-cable manufacturer Andrew Hallidie.
		Cable cars are considered one of the San Francisco signatures.
		When the cable car gripman operated the handle the grip grabs the cable and the cable car is pulled along by the moving cable.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/North_America/United_States_of_America/California/San_Francisco-755471/Things_To_Do-San_Francisco-Cable_CarsMuseum-BR-1.html (1332 words)

	USATODAY.com - Two cable cars collide in northern Austria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		LINZ, Austria (AP) — Two cable cars collided in northern Austria on Saturday and knocked a 3-year-old girl out the doors, sending her tumbling 30 feet to the ground, state media said.
		The doors of the cable car that she, her grandmother and another passenger were riding in sprang open when an empty car in front of it slid back and crashed into it, state broadcaster ORF reported.
		The cable car line has 26 gondolas that transport passengers from Gmunden, a town 120 miles west of Vienna, to Gruenberg, a mountain popular with hikers.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-10-16-cable-cars-collide_x.htm (314 words)

	San Francisco Cable Cars Photographs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the late nineteenth century, all major cities had vast fleets of cable cars to transport the denizens of the cities around.
		However, cable cars were slow, noisy and the cable system required a vast amount of maintenance.
		As the twentieth century came into swing, cable cars began to be phased out for the more rapid and economical electric trolley car.
	home.comcast.net /~apollo_photocards/photos/sf/cablecars (216 words)

	Cable Cars
		Cable cars are unusual because they do not run under their own power.
		Cable cars run on rails, like a train, but in between the rails there is a slot where a strong cable is located.
		The cable is connected to an engine in the powerhouse, and it is kept moving all the time.
	www.edhelper.com /ReadingComprehension_35_188.html (490 words)

	Cable Cars - San Francisco Transportation - VirtualTourist.com
		For us toursts, San Francisco cable cars are not a means of transportation but a tourist attraction, one of the things one has to "see" if they go to the City by the Bay.
		I think the novelty is nice for one or two rides, but generally, I found the cars to be incredibly slow and often so crowded that you would either have to get on at an endpoint (after waiting in a long line) or face a long, long wait.
		A BIG TIP: At the beginning--when you are getting ready for the cable car to come for boarders, stand at the point where you will be at the front of the car.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/North_America/United_States_of_America/California/San_Francisco-755471/Transportation-San_Francisco-Cable_Cars-R-1.html (1132 words)

	Nob Hill, Russian Hill, Crookedest Street and Cable Car Museum Pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		With the three surviving Cable Car lines all crossing Nob Hill, it's the ideal place for San Francisco's Cable Car Museum.
		The Powell-Hyde line begins at the Cable Car turnaround at Aquatic Park and reaches the top of Russian Hill at Lombard Street which is also the top of The Worlds Crookedest Street.
		The Powell-Hyde cable car line continues on to the turnaround at Powell and Market Streets, also the turnaround for the Powell-Mason line which passes through Union Square and North Beach on its way to Fisherman's Wharf.
	www.inetours.com /Pages/SFNbrhds/Nob_Hill_Cable_Car.html (637 words)

	Buses to Replace Cable Cars; Tracks Removed - 1941
		The company recently sought permission to substitute buses for the Washington and Clay-st cable line, but the supervisors voted down the petition on the mayor's request that no further "favors" be extended until the company agreed to make some badly-needed improvements on its own.
		Yesterday the mayor agreed to withdraw his ban when company officials promised, in return, to lift the car tracks on Leavenworth-st from McAllister to Ellis-st, on Battery-st from Market to California-st, on Bush-st from Sansome to Battery, and on Sansome-st from Bush to Sutter.
		The company also promised to remove 305 feet of tracks on Fillmore-st north of Chestnut, so that the middle of the street may be used for a parking area.
	www.sfmuseum.org /hist6/mktcars.html (500 words)

	My Way News - All Passengers on NYC Cable Cars Rescued
		Passengers in one of the dangling cars were plucked one by one and hoisted onto a gondola, while those in the second car were removed in an industrial crane and bucket.
		The cause of the outage of the Roosevelt Island Tramway cars was not known, said Herb Berman, president of the agency that operates the system, which offer breathtaking views of the city from up to 250 feet high.
		He said the mood in his car was almost festive, with people singing and telling jokes.
	apnews.myway.com /article/20060419/D8H31M902.html (457 words)

	Trolley, Streetcar, Cable Car, Cable Car Classics
		Cable Car Classics, Inc., based in the heart of the Sonoma County wine country just north of San Francisco, has been in the business of building motorized trolleys since 1993.
		Cable cars first appeared in San Francisco in the late 1800's and have never lost their graceful, romantic appeal.
		Should you be seriously interested in acquiring a Cable Car Classics, Inc., trolley, please understand that each trolley is hand crafted and the minimum amount of time to build one is about four months.
	www.cablecarclassics.com (399 words)

	Mayor seeks motorized turntables for cable cars
		When a cable car reaches the end of the line, the operators jump off, grab hold of the empty cable car from the outside and walk the vehicle 180 degrees around on a turntable, then push it back onto the track before allowing passengers aboard.
		"I don't think the romance of the cable car would be that much diminished by preserving the bodies of the workers," she said.
		Before the 1906 earthquake, when cable cars ran through much of The City, the Market Street Cable Railway had a big, double-track turntable at the Ferry Building that was too heavy to move by hand.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/1998/09/04/NEWS10215.dtl (911 words)

	NurseZone - Getting Away - Travel updates - Archive
		Considered “Home Base” to the cable cars, the Cable Car Barn & Powerhouse Museum is not only where the cars depart and arrive daily on their 11 miles of wrapped steel “rope” going a steady 9 1/2 miles per hour, but also where visitors find a variety of spectacular sights.
		Free to the public, the Museum houses one of the very first cable cars (built in 1873), a Sutter Street grip car and trailer, as well as scale models of some of the 57 different types of cable cars once operated in the city.
		When it became known that the cable cars’ survival was at stake, contributions came in from every corner of the world to help save them.
	www.nursezone.com /Away/TravelforFun.asp?articleID=7283 (657 words)

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