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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)

	Cable car (railway) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A cable car or cable railway is a mass transit system using rail cars that are propelled by a continuously moving cable running at a constant speed.
		Though some new cable car systems were still being built, by 1890 the cheaper to construct and simpler to operate electrically-powered trolley or tram started to become the norm, and eventually started to replace existing cable car systems.
		A cable car is superficially very similar to a funicular but differs from such a system in that its cars are not permanently attached to the cable and can stop independently, whereas a funicular has cars that are permanently attached to the propulsion cable, which is itself stopped and started.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cable_car_(railway) (1703 words)

	Tram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cable cars are pulled along a rail track by a continuously moving cable running at a constant speed on which individual cars stop and start by releasing and gripping this cable as required.
		Cable cars suffered from high infrastructure costs, since a vast and expensive system of cables, pulleys, stationary engines and vault structures between the rails had to be provided.
		Cable cars were especially useful in hilly cities, partially explaining their survival in San Francisco, though the most extensive cable system in the U.S. was in Chicago, Illinois, a much flatter city.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tram (7099 words)

	The Wellington Cable Car
		The cable, a mile long wire rope was wound up and down the track by a 12 foot driving wheel, then run around huge pulleys as either end of the track, and through the driving mechanism.and#0; The cars were joined together with a second "tail" rope, independent of the driving rope.
		In early 1976 the Cable Car was shut down for a further two months for another overhaul required by the Ministry of Works and in June of that year the council finally decided to replace the cars with a fully automatic version.
		Grip cars 1 and 3 and trailer 4 are now held in storage at Karori but it is hoped that they will soon be part of a Cable Car museum in the old winding house at the top of the incline.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/3589/cablecar.html (3709 words)

	The Cable Car Home Page - Selected Articles From Manufacturer and Builder
		The cars, also, may be built much lighter than those commonly in use on elevated roads as they will not be subjected to the severe strains of sudden stoppings, since no brakes need be employed for this purpose in the normal operation of the the road.
		The trucks, being secured to the cable by a mass of soft metal, the pressure is distributed equally upon all parts of the same, and there is nothing like the crushing force brought upon it as is the case in the operation of the ordinary cable system.
		Again, in the ordinary cable system, the cable sags considerably between the supporting sheaves, and this slack permits of undulations in the cable under varying loads, which give rise to a certain surging motion, which will be unpleasantly recalled by those who are familiar with the cable cars.
	www.cable-car-guy.com /html/ccmanbl3.html (4639 words)

	ipedia.com: Cable car on rails Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		A cable car on rails is a tram -like vehicle on rails for public transport which is pulled by a cable.
		A cable car on rails is a tram-like vehicle on rails for public transport which is pulled by a cable.
		A cable car on rails differs from other rail transport modes in that the motive power is in fixed engine that pulls the cable, and thus falls in the category of cable transport.
	www.ipedia.com /cable_car_on_rails.html (361 words)

	CABLE CARS REPLACE HORSES
		Instead, cable cars were pulled along by a continuously running cable, that moved at a constant speed.
		The operator of a cable car is known as a "gripman" not a "motorman", as on an electric trolley line.
		To bring the car to a stop, he then pulls back on another lever or grip, which is attached to a mechanical hand braking system, and the car comes to a complete stop.
	www.trolleystop.com /cablecar.htm (369 words)

	Robinson v. Chin & Hensolt
		Respondents argued that the cable car turntables were improvements to real property within the meaning of section 337.1, the alleged defects were patent since 1984, and thus appellants' 1999 lawsuit was time-barred by the statute.
		Thus, the operator of the car who uses the cable grip device became known as the "gripman" -and eventually, "grip person." The second operator of a cable car is known as the conductor.
		Each cable car continues to use two operators, a grip person and a conductor, who-as they did in the early days of the cable cars-communicate with each other by ringing a small bell called the conductors' bell in a series of codes.
	www.law.com /regionals/ca/opinions/may/a095725.shtml (3882 words)

	Cable Car Company - Clay Street Hill Railway
		The dummy and car were uncoupled and each was moved onto one of the turntables, where it was rotated 90 degrees by the crew, hooked up again and sent back up the hill.
		Outside the powerhouse, 8 foot deflecting sheaves moved the cable into a conduit consisting of cast iron yokes supported by wooden planking, forming a 22” by 16” tube under the street, through which the cable ran.
		The gripman employed a series of shoe and pedal brakes to stop the car, along with an iron drag pole to prevent slipping on grades and a crude emergency brake as last resort.
	www.cablecarmuseum.org /co-clay-st-hill.html (425 words)

	The Cable Car Home Page - Who Was Important in the History of the Cable Car?
		The cars were attractive to look at, but terrible to ride in when the pivots became worn and the cars became wobbly.
		This may be true, but Hallidie took over an existing proposal for a cable railway from Benjamin H Brooks, who had not been able to find financing for his plan.
		The Pacific Railway was unsuccessful and Holmes was financially ruined.
	www.cable-car-guy.com /html/ccwho.html (3727 words)

	The Cable Car Home Page - Cable Car Lines in San Francisco
		Cars would start at the top and the bottom at the same time; the weight of the descending car helped to pull the ascending car, and the weight of the ascending car helped to prevent the descending car from running away.
		On any streetcar propelled by cable, passengers are prohibited from standing between the forward cabin door and the gripman, in the entryways, on those portions of the running boards forming part of the entryways, and on the prohibited areas of the rear platform of single-ended cars as designated by the Municipal Railway.
		The cars are open for the most part, as they should be, and I have never yet ridden to the ocean and back that I have not either got cinders in my own eye, or witnessed the sufferings of other unfortunates from this cause.
	www.cable-car-guy.com /html/ccsf.html (6713 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 (1439 words)

	S.F. MAYOR: CABLE CAR FARE THEFTS / He thinks some conductors are pocketing cash from riders
		Newsom said he believes conductors are skimming fares from cash-paying riders because on three occasions he rode the cable cars and handed over his $5 cash fare but never received the required receipt.
		Last year, two cable car conductors were fired for allegedly stealing cash fares, an action that set off a 2 1/2-hour wildcat strike on the cable cars by Transport Workers Union members upset over the way management handled the disciplinary procedures.
		Lum, the Muni drivers' union chief, said the cable car conductors are responsible not only for collecting fares but also for working the rear brake on the cable cars and helping maintain passenger safety.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/01/19/MNGK3GPM6T1.DTL (954 words)

	Cable Car Square
		The businesses of Cable Car Square are each based out of houses built in the 1850-1880 Vistorian Period and have been restored in large part back to their original beauty.
		As a traveler he had seen incline railways in Europe and decided that a cable car would solve his problem.
		John Bell, a local engineer, was hired to design and to build a one-car cable modeled after those in the Alps.
	partners.dubuque365.com /cablecarsquare/history.html (791 words)

	Cable Car Company - Ferries & Cliff House Railway
		Gustav Sutro also developed a plan for steam dummies and cable car lines, the Park and Cliff House Railway, that would run from downtown out to the Cliff House resort being built by his brother, mining magnate Adolph Sutro.
		After remodeling the Clay Street Hill line in 1891, cars rerouted from the original double lines on Clay to single tracks running west on Clay to Larkin, then over one block to Sacramento Street and west to Central Avenue.
		The Ferries and Cliff House Railway, with the other routes of the Market Street Railway, became part of the United Railroads of San Francisco in 1902.
	www.cablecarmuseum.org /co-ferries-cliffhouse.html (533 words)

	California Street cable car line
		This is not because a cable car line with a higher cable crosses here (as happens for the Powell cars crossing California), but because the cable takes a 90-degree right turn here and runs without track three blocks north under Mason Street to reach the cable car powerhouse.
		As the cable car continues west, note the Flood Mansion on the left, last of the 'Nabob’s' palaces to survive.
		This parcel was the California Cable Railroad Company’s carbarn and general offices, serving the cars of both the California and O’Farrell, Jones and Hyde lines until the company went broke in the early 1950s.
	www.streetcar.org /mim/cable/cal (1131 words)

	Mayor's cable car repair mission / Newsom tries to mollify crews but sticks by fare-theft charge
		Newsom met privately Friday with Lum and about two dozen men and women who work on the famed cable car system to explain his position and to hear their concerns over comments he made Wednesday that he was convinced some conductors have been pilfering money that should have been going into the public till.
		What he didn't say during the midmorning meeting, held at the cable car barn at Washington and Mason streets on Russian Hill, was that he was sorry for the remarks, which made national headlines.
		Unlike the Municipal Railway's trains and buses, where passengers either flash a prepaid pass or insert cash into a machine, on the cable cars cash fares are collected by hand.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/01/21/MNG34GR14G1.DTL (863 words)

	San Francisco Cable Cars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		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.
		These cars were built in 1887-91, and survived the great fire of 1906 because they were stored in an outlying carbarn at the time.
	web.presby.edu /~jtbell/transit/SanFrancisco/CableCar (1028 words)

	San Diego streetcars
		The San Diego Cable Railway was incorporated on 22-Jul-1889.
		The cable company went into receivership in early 1892 and the last cable cars ran on 15-Oct-1892.
		The line was sold to the San Diego Electric Railway Co. in July, 1908.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /collections/streetcar/streetcar.htm (521 words)

	Katoomba
		Coal was obtained from the side of the mountain near Orphan Rock using a cable car to bring the coal to the top.
		The Scenic Railway is the steepest railway incline in the world and is now one of the most popular man-made tourist attractions in Australia.
		Adjacent to the Scenic Railway is the new Sceniscender, the steepest aerial cable car in Australia.
	www.bluemts.com.au /tourist/towns/katoomba.asp (1104 words)

	Zugspitze Lifts - Cogwheel Railway and Cable Car - Europe for Visitors
		The Eibsee aerial cablecar departs from a station near the Eibsee (a lake at the foot of the Zugpitze) and rises 1950 meters or 6,397 feet to the mountain's summit ridge.
		The last train or cable car down the mountain is in late afternoon.
		For the return trip, descend via the Gletscherbahn cable car to the cogwheel railroad's mountain station at Zugspitzplatt, where you'll board the train for Garmisch.
	europeforvisitors.com /germany/garmisch/zugspitze-lifts-transportation.htm (457 words)

	Wellington Cable Car History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Cable Museum Related Searches: cable museum cars car museum cable car museum wellington history francisco san natural friends.
		The Cable Car provides a unique form of transport to the city to...
		Wellington Cable Car Museum, located within metres of the Kelburn stop of the Cable Car, you'll learn more about the colourful 100-year...
	www.vldb04.org /wellingtoncablecarhistory.html (193 words)

	Cable car - Cable Car Charters
		Cable cars of the North Dakota variety exist in various localities of the Great One of North Dakota's several cable cars--in fact, the best-preserved
		The Cable Car is one of Squaw Valley's most popular year-round attractions and is open to all ccbldg.jpg The Cable Car building itself is a landmark.
		Cable cars in San Francisco run on rails by gripping an underground cable Cable cars (above) run on rails with a slot between the tracks where an
	cable.recommendlist.com /rl/cable-cable-car.htm (211 words)

	Madeira island Cable Car
		From the rack railway of old times to the most sophisticated cable car of today, Funchal is once again connected to the breathtaking beauty of Monte situated in the hills above the city.
		At the onset of the 20th century, the steam train performed the task of bringing tourists up to the Monte hills on a comfortable and memorable trip.
		Now, almost 100 years later, the modern cable car has replaced the long decommissioned train’s mission.
	www.madeira-web.com /PagesUK/gondola.php (228 words)

	Ferries & Cliffhouse Cable Railway Power House (1887) - Landmarks
		The line is an amalgamation of the Powell Street Railway and the Park and Cliff House Railway.
		Andrew Hallidie, a wire rope manufacturer, devised the first operating cable car in the United States in 1873, which ran on Clay Street hill.
		By the 1890s, several cable lines had produced some six hundred cars and equipment, most of which were destroyed in the earthquake and fire of 1906.
	www.asme.org /Communities/History/Landmarks/Ferries_Cliffhouse_Cable.cfm (179 words)

	Compagnie du Mont-Blanc - Aiguille du Midi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Facing you, the seracs and terminal spur of the Glacier des Pèlerins, the suspended glaciers and the north face of the Aiguille du Midi.
		At the time, this funicular railway was the highest in the world.
		The second section, with a difference in level of 1500 m without any pylons, is an unprecedented achievement.
	www.compagniedumontblanc.fr /en/aiguille/aiguille_telepherique.htm (392 words)

	San Francisco Castro Street Cable Car Service to Soon End - 1939
		Cahill advised Mayor Rossi that an investment of $80,000 would be required if Municipal Railway trolley buses were substituted for the cable cars.
		The Market Street Railway’s income from the line in March was less than $1000, he said.
		The mayor has suggested to the Eureka Valley residents they assist the Market Street Railway in obtaining Board of Supervisors’ approval in the surrendering of its franchise to operate on Castro-st. Mr.
	www.sfmuseum.org /hist8/castrocar.html (322 words)

	San Francisco Muni Official Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) provides public transit within San Francisco, California.
		Its buses, electric trolleys, streetcars and cable cars transport nearly 700,000 passengers each day.
		You have received a simplified version of the S.F. Muni home page which is designed to support your browser.
	www.sfmuni.com (46 words)

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