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	Cable car on rails (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.
		In Hong Kong, the Peak Tram is a cable car system that runs on rail between the Central district and Victoria Peak.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/c/ca/cable_car_on_rails.html (307 words)

	Cable car (railway) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cable cars are sometimes confused with funiculars, where the cars are permanently attached to the cable.
		Cable cars rapidly spread to other cities, although the major attraction for most was the ability to displace horse-drawn (or other animal-drawn) systems rather than the ability to climb hills.
		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_on_rails (1613 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)

	Public transport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While it is generally taken to mean rail and bus services, wider definitions would include scheduled airline services, ferries, taxicab services etc. — any system that transports members of the general public.
		Cable car on rails, used in cities, a streetcar (tram} pulled by a cable
		Some regional rail operators provide "quiet cars" where loud conversation and cell phone use are banned.
	www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Mass_transit (1916 words)

	Public transport
		While it is generally taken to mean rail and bus services, wider definitions would include scheduled airline services, ferries, taxi services etc., basically any system which is transporting members of the general public.
		Cable car on rails, used in cities, tram-like vehicle on rails pulled by a cable
		This may especially be the case with a rail or bus pass.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/p/pu/public_transport.html (1017 words)

	San Francisco Cable Car - the gripping tale of an aged compact
		The car itself is connected to the cable through a slot like a third rail in the center of the tracks, and the grip projects down through this slot to make contact with the cable.
		A cable car is operated in a standing position and, on taking our place at the controls, we found ourselves confronted by three levers, with a vertical foot pedal in the floor just behind us.
		The cable speed is 9.5 mph and once the car is locked to the cable it progresses steadily on the level at 9.5 mph.
	cablecarmuseum.org /archive/Library/road_track.html (1917 words)

	Market Street Railway \| cable cars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.
		But in the 'rationalization' of the cable car system (see cable car history), the old Washington-Jackson line was cut back and connected with the outer end of the old O’Farrell, Jones, and Hyde line, which started operations in 1891.
		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.
	www.streetcar.org /cablecars (2717 words)

	Funicular (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Typically the steepness of the track does not vary very much, which differentiates the funicular from a cable car on rails.
		It is thus a hybrid between cable transport and rail transport.
		Two carss at the end of a cable go alternately up and down on either two tracks or one track which splits and rejoins in the middle.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/f/fu/funicular.html (522 words)

	The Cable Car Home Page
		O’Farrell/Jones/Hyde car was built in 1906 or 1907 by WL Holman for the California Street Cable Railroad.
		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 (1958 words)

	The Cable Car Home Page - Cable Car Lines in the UK
		Persistent stories have it that the horses are scared of the car, as they often were of cable cars.
		At the urging of the American Cable Railway Trust's representatives, including William E Eppelsheimer, Liverpool United arranged a trial at their car sheds at Kirkdale.
		The cars carry trolley poles and a wire runs above the entire line, but the poles and wire were for communication between the cars and the winding house, rather than for power.
	www.geocities.com /cable_car_guy/html/ccuk.html (1804 words)

	Public Transportation Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While it is generally taken to include rail and bus services, wider definitions would include scheduled airline services, ferries, taxicab services etc. - any system that transports members of the general public.
		Whilst in the Western World private cars dominate, in poor countries (which represent the majority of human population) most people can not afford a private car, so walking, (motor)cycling or public transport are often the only options, with only the latter being viable for larger distances (which by their nature represent the majority of transportation).
		They claim per-mile construction and maintenance cost of constructing a subway or light rail line often equals or excedes that of a urban freeway, yet do not divert the same number of automobiles (though supporters of public transport dispute this for urban areas).
	www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/Public_transportation (3135 words)

	Families grieve as Austrian cable car recovery effort delayed: 11/13/00
		It was still unclear how many people were in the cable car, but it was believed that it had a capacity of 180 people and was full.
		The cable car caught fire while thousands of people were enjoying late fall sunshine and balmy temperatures on the glacier slopes on what was the opening day of the region's ski season.
		Built in 1974, the cable railway was one of the first of its kind with a tunnel passing through a mountainside.
	www.s-t.com /daily/11-00/11-13-00/a01wn004.htm (936 words)

	Cable Car Museum Walking Tour
		To keep the cable from slipping as it is powered each cable wraps 3/4 around its powered driving sheave and under and over an unpowered idler sheave, in a figure-8 pattern.
		Until 1883, all cable car service was supplied by cable car trains consisting of a grip car and trailer.
		The ringing of the cable car bell is one of San Francisco's most familiar and favorite sounds.
	cablecarmuseum.org /archive/Tour (655 words)

	Ananova - 'US family of four killed' in Austrian rail disaster
		Flames engulfed a cable car while it was being pulled through a mountain tunnel, killing about 170 people in the worst disaster of its kind.
		Also reported killed was a cable car attendant in an otherwise empty car that was going toward the valley as the one carrying the other victims was going up in the tunnel.
		The cable car, pulled on rails underground for most of the more than 3,200 meters (yards) up the Kitzsteinhorn mountain to the glacier region, caught fire about 600 meters (yards) inside the mountain, in the heart of the Austrian Alps.
	www.ananova.com /news/story/sm_113876.html (780 words)

	The Cable Car Home Page - Cable Car Lines in Chicago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Rasmussen Cable Company promoted Charles W Rasmussen's patents for a system which was intended to be inexpensive to install and to operate.
		Normal stretching of the cable made the distance between the trucks vary so that the slots on the driving wheel and the cogs of the cog wheels had trouble engaging the trucks and the buttons.
		The cable cars, as they made the turn into or out of the street at the corner of Monroe, threw momentary glares of red and green lights across the mists of rain, and filled the air continually with the jangle of their bells.
	www.cable-car-guy.com /html/ccchi.html (4579 words)

	User talk:Aliter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thanks for improving my edits to Cable car on rails.
		The fact that the cable of a cable car system is a loop also adds some other advantages, such as the possibility to go down one slope and up the next.
		I think some funiculars also have looped cables, and at least in theory should be able to go down one slope and up the next.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/User_talk:Aliter (1171 words)

	Aerial tramway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is sometimes called a 'cable car' but should be distinguished from a cable car on rails.
		A car may be attached to a fixed point on a cable loop, which is then fed through motorized pulleys at each suspension point.
		A car may have a self-contained motor, which propels the wheels or pulleys by which the car is suspended from the cable.
	www.city-search.org /ae/aerial-tramway.html (680 words)

	tram
		Railed vehicles pulled by cable up the hills at steep incline, such as Hong Kong's Victoria Peak Tram, and Monongahela and Duquesne Inclines in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, are also called trams, but are more accurately funiculars.
		Suspended cable cars, such as those found in ski resorts, may also be called trams, see Aerial tramway.
		Not all trams were removed; the San Francisco cable cars are the most famous example of trams in the United States.
	www.fact-library.com /tram.html (465 words)

	Print This Page \| Sioux City History
		The cable car conductor operated a clutch that extended into the slot to grab the moving cable.
		The cable car was then pulled along until the conductor disengaged the clutch and braked the car to a stop.
		By 1892, five street car lines were running in Sioux City in direct competition with one another, not counting the elevated railway and cable line.
	www.siouxcityhistory.org /print.php?id=28_0_4_0 (469 words)

	PUBLIC TRANSPORT FACTS AND INFORMATION
		The distinction between (national) rail, metro and tram is sometimes blurred, such as in Amsterdam and the wider Randstad area, where trains often run once every 10 minutes, thus taking on the role of a metro, the metro is only partly underground and the so-called light_rail is basically a tram that runs on metro lines.
		These include local urban and suburban bus and paratransit services, light_rail, heritage_streetcar_systems, cable car, subway, rapid_transit, and commuter rail services.
		Some regional_rail operators provide "quiet cars" where loud conversation and cell_phone use are banned.
	www.dontpayyourtaxes.com /public_transport (2888 words)

	Train World - Cable Car
		A cable car is a passenger vehicle that is pulled by a constantly moving wire cable.
		Some cable cars, such as ski lifts, run on cables suspended between towers.
		A cable car moves when its operator pushes a lever that causes the car’s heavy metal grip to latch onto a moving cable.
	www.stormloader.com /ironhorse/cable.html (103 words)

	Transworld Snowboarding.com \| News \| Austrian Tram Tunnel Claims 170 Lives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The cable car's passengers tried to flee the deep tunnel during Saturday's blaze, but most were felled by the thick smoke and raging fire.
		The cable car, pulled on rails underground for most of its more than 3,200-yard path up the Kitzsteinhorn mountain to the glacier region, burned after having traveled about 600 yards inside the mountain in the heart of the Austrian Alps.
		The cable car caught fire at a time when thousands of people were enjoying late fall sunshine and balmy temperatures on the slopes in the heart of the Austrian Alps, on the opening day of the region's ski season.
	www.transworldsnowboarding.com /snow/news/article/0,13009,243712,00.html (857 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.
		John Bell, a local engineer, was hired to design and to build a one-car cable modeled after those in the Alps.
		Then they in-stalled three rails with a fourth bypass in the middle to allow for the operation of two (funicular) counterbalanced cars.
	partners.dubuque365.com /cablecarsquare/history.html (791 words)

	Public transport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While it is generally taken to mean Rail transportrail and bus services, wider definitions would include scheduled airline services, ferryferries, taxicab/ services etc. — any system that transports members of the general public.
		Cable car (railway)Cable car on rails, used in cities, a streetcar (tram/} pulled by a cable
		It is customary not to speak on such services, to give evil stares to people who (knowingly or otherwise) use their voice above the slightest whisper without moving into the vestibule, and to give even filthier looks to any train guard who dares to use the public address system when disembarking from such services.
	www.infothis.com /find/Public_transport (1935 words)

	Public transport - FreeEncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Another reason for subsidies for public transit are the provision of mobility to the disadvantaged who cannot afford or are physically incapable of using an automobile.
		Rail transport systems tend to be favoured by many cities.
		Public transport is sometimes used by homeless people and budget tourists as a sleeping place.
	openproxy.ath.cx /pu/Public_transport.html (579 words)

	Public Transport Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While it is generally taken to include rail and bus services, wider definitions would include scheduled airline services, ferries, taxicab services etc. — any system that transports members of the general public in shared vehicles.
		Whilst in the Western World private cars dominate, in poor countries (which represent the majority of human population) most people can not afford a private car, so walking, (motor)cycling or public transport (often in more informal forms as used in the West) are often the only options, especially for long distances.
		Public transport can be faster than other modes of travel; prime examples are in cities where road congestion can be avoided, and for long distance travel where much higher speeds are possible than are permitted on roads.
	popularityguide.com /encyclopedia/Public_transport (2684 words)

	Ananova - Rescue teams find bodies melted together
		Twenty-nine victims were recovered by this morning, two days after the cable-pulled car on rails caught fire inside the Kitzsteinhorn mountain in the Austrian Alps, killing at least 159 people.
		The floor of the car had melted, he said, complicating the grim task of recovering the bodies in the cold, dark tunnel.
		Medical and psychiatric personnel were posted at the cable car tunnel's middle entrance to provide any necessary counselling for those unable to deal with the horrors inside the tunnel.
	www.ananova.com /news/story/sm_114992.html (371 words)

	Firehouse.Com News - 11/13/00 - Cable Car Fire Met With Despair
		It was finally free of smoke Sunday afternoon, allowing the task to begin _ with emergency workers entering the tunnel from the upper end because of fears the charred car could slide downhill.
		At the Italian ski resort of Cavalese in 1976, when 42 people died after a cable carrying suspended cable cars snapped.
		The Austrian cable car caught fire while thousands of people were enjoying late fall sunshine and balmy temperatures on the glacier slopes on the opening day of the region's ski season.
	www.firehouse.com /news/2000/11/11_APtrain_sidebar.html (994 words)

	Uppers \| Tag Heuer
		The car ignites sparks from the cable car rails.
		The vehicle is handled with the consumate skill of a professional and there is not a dent on the car though there are several on the one being pursued.
		The man driving the car is welldressed in a casual way.
	www.uppers.org /showArticle.asp?article=276 (1377 words)

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