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	Cable railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cable railways are railways with very steep gradients and use stationary engines to haul the wagons up and down the hills.
		Railway workers attach the cable to the upper wagon, and detatch it whenm it arrives at the other end of the incline.
		The cables are guided between the rails on the incline by a series of rollers so that they do not fall across the rail where they would be damaged by the wheels on the wagons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cable_railway (396 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.
		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_(railway) (1669 words)

	Class 104: RAILWAYS / U.S. Patent Classification Definitions
		Cable apparatus comprising hangers for load-carrying cables which are displaceable with respect to the cables to permit the unobstructed passage of the load-carriers.
		Cable apparatus having means for depressing the cable of one line at or near the point where it is crossed by another in such manner that the grip on the car of the crossing line shall not come in contact with the cable of the crossed line.
		Cable apparatus having means for impelling the car around the curve auxiliary to the main cable, either to allow a reduction in speed at the curve or to allow the main cable to continue along the straight track as the car takes the curve onto a crossing track.
	www.uspto.gov /web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/def/104.htm (6896 words)

	The Cable Car Home Page - Selected Articles From Manufacturer and Builder
		The cable system seems to be growing in popularity, as we hear of considerable extension of its use in San Francisco and Chicago, where it has successfully stood the test of a number of years trial, and in Philadelphia, where an experimental line of about half a mile was laid down last year.
		Union Passenger Railway Co., of that city, possessing extensive lines, has been for some time past engaged in laying down a long line of cable railway, which, it is understood, will be adopted on all the lines of this company should the anticipations of the projectors of the enterprise be fulfilled.
		The cable system of street car propulsion has received a noteworthy extension during the past year, by the construction of about ten miles of such railway for several of the leading street railway companies in Philadelphia, and which was about ready to be put in operation at the close of 1884.
	www.cable-car-guy.com /html/ccmanbl2.html (4295 words)

	Cable railway: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The cromford and high peak railway (c&hpr) was a railway built in the 1830s and operated by the london and north western railway to carry minerals and...
		The liverpool and manchester railway (lmr) was the worlds first intercity passenger railway operated by steam locomotives (the stockton and darlington...
		A locomotive is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train, and has no payload capacity of its own; its sole purpose is to provide power....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/cable_railway.htm (295 words)

	Los Angeles Cable Railway Company (1887) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Los Angeles Cable Railway Company is now constructing a double track wire-cable railway from the western to the eastern limits of the city, with a branch to the south-east.
		The cable drums are loose on the extended bosses of the rope wheels; and are held to these wheels by friction disks, which are tightened up by eight screws and hand-wheels in each drum.
		The Los Angeles Cable Railway, later known as the Pacific Railway, operated ten miles of cable and 25 miles of horse lines.
	www.erha.org /lacrc.htm (1754 words)

	The Cable Car Home Page - The Cable Street-Railway
		The cable, as it leaves the driving drum, passes over a big wheel mounted upon a movable carriage; this carriage is attached to a wire cable at the other end of which is fastened a huge weight of several tons, so arranged as to rise and fall according to the pull upon the street cable.
		When comparatively a few cars are running along the cable it is apt to be slack, and this movable carriage takes in this slack of the cable by pulling it toward the tower in which the weight, seen in the illustration, moves up and down according to the pull upon the main cable.
		As it may be a matter of life and death to be able to stop the cable instantly, the driving drums in all the power-houses are held in place upon their shafts by friction-brakes which may be loosened in two seconds, thus stopping the cable though the engine continue at work.
	www.cable-car-guy.com /html/ccscrib.html (4322 words)

	The Glasgow Underground
		Glasgow has the distinction of possessing the only underground railway in the world that was originally planned for operation by cable traction, and the only one that has used this method of working continuously from its opening until its recent electrification.
		The cables were placed between the tracks, kept in motion during the whole of the time that the line was open to traffic, and ran at a uniform speed of twelve and a half miles an hour.
		With cable traction the average speed was considerably less than that of a modern tramway, since the twelve and a half miles an hour at which the cable was operated was materially lower than the overall speed, after allowing for starts and stops.
	mikes.railhistory.railfan.net /r048.html (1990 words)

	The Wellington Cable Car
		Entirely cable hauled railways were initially common but after the first few decades cable haulage was usually used where gradients were considered too steep for the safe passage of the vehicle.
		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.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/3589/cablecar.html (3709 words)

	Journal of San Diego History
		Haga's paper, "San Diego's Cable Railway" was researched at Junipero Serra Museum Research Library and written under the direction of Dr. David Weber, of San Diego State College history faculty, in the spring of 1968.
		The Cable Railway Company built a new and larger pavilion on Mission Cliff late in the year, 1890, improving the gardens and adding terraced paths along the face of the bluffs, "with summer houses at the turnings and other effective view points.
		As a single track line, unusual for a cable system, both sides of the cable were required to be in the same slot, except at the turn-outs which the up going cable followed.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/69spring/cable.htm (1801 words)

	HOBOKEN INCLINED CABLE RAILWAY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A third cable, attached to each truck and passing around sheaves at the top of the hill, serves as a safeguard in case either set of hoisting cables should break.
		The grips are of iron, 3 feet long, and the cable is in contact with the jaws of the grip for the entire 3 feet.
		The up cable is right underneath the car; the grip man lowers the rope lifter, raises the cable between the open jaws of the grip, closes them gradually, and the car moves off.
	www.catskillarchive.com /rrextra/hoboken.Html (1317 words)

	THE PROSPECT MOUNTAIN CABLE INCLINE RAILWAY -- LAKE GEORGE, N. Y. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Construction of the railway was commenced on Jan. 2, 1895, and was carried on through many difficulties incident to the cold and snow.
		The ends of the cable are attached to the downhill side of the car frames, the cable passing under a saddle at the front of the car, which holds it down to within a few inches of the idler pulleys.
		There is telephone communication between the cars and the power house, a copper signal wire being supported on iron standards attached to the ends of the ties, as shown, each car having a wire loop contact piece attached to the end of a vertical rod and held down upon the line wire by a spring.
	www.catskillarchive.com /rrextra/lginclin.Html (2195 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.
		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.
		Otherwise an indispensable segment of a railway track would become the property of a successful claimant to a strip of real estate occupied by the railway, and the public convenience in railway travel might be interfered with.
	www.law.com /regionals/ca/opinions/may/a095725.shtml (3882 words)

	Fate of Castro Cable Is Argued
		At 18th Street the cable car connected with the No. 8 streetcar that now served the remaining part of the former Market-Castro cable car line.
		The Castro cable as a result lost ridership to passengers who now elected to walk to and from Muni’s J-Church, K-Market and L-Taraval streetcars.
		After the Market Street Railway failed in its attempts for outright abandonment of its money losing Castro cable line, it was successful on April 5, 1941 of incorporating the route of the Castro Cable car into the new No. 24 crosstown motor coach line.
	www.cablecarmuseum.org /archive/Library/CastroCable.htm (541 words)

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		"In a cable railway, the cars were moved by an endless cable traveling in a small tunnel under the roadway, and kept in motion by a stationary engine.
		The street railway was the first Kansas City enterprise of real magnitude and importance in which Eastern capital was used and was the first elevated system ever constructed outside of New York.
		Nevertheless Edgerton is recognized as one of the transportation pioneers, and his railway lines were to serve as main arteries until the 1920s.
	www.kckpl.lib.ks.us /kscoll/lochist/thennow/TN39.htm (842 words)

	Jaybird10
		Street railways using electric motive power (rather than the traditional horse or mule, or the more costly and cumbersome cable) had reached the experimental stage in 1886.
		The notoriety of Sprague's achievement naturally drew street railway investors to Richmond from all across the country to assess whether the new technology could be adapted to their own railway lines.
		With respect to the design of entire railway systems, the Johnson Company was responsible for lines built for as many as 94 separate street railway companies, including more than a dozen cable roads, three inclines, and several elevated steam railroads.
	www.pitt.edu /~zander/Jaybird10.htm (2963 words)

	Katoomba cable railways, Blue Mountains, Australia
		The world famous Katoomba Scenic Railway was originally part of a network of tramlines built to bring coal and kerosene shale from mines up to the main railway.
		From the coal mine, a second dual track cable tramway passed through the Daylight Tunnel under Malaita Point, then two small tunnels before crossing a trestle bridge, and came to a junction with the horse drawn tramline to the Ruined Castle mines.
		A single endless cable was employed, powered by the "engine bank" near the upper terminus of the Scenic Railway.
	infobluemountains.net.au /rail/ksr/kat_tram.htm (929 words)

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	The Cable Building
		During a greater part of the two preceding years the street was continually in a state of upheaval to allow the frequently needed repairs of the pipes of the steam heating companies, and the burying of the electric wires until the people had become desperate over the situation.
		The laying of the cable road conduits and the repaving of the street were finally completed and then the people began to look for the promised improvement in Broadway car travel, which was to compensate them for the months of discomfort which they had undergone.
		There is little prospect of the cable being put in operation on this line before next spring, while the outlook for the initial trip of the third avenue line is still more remote.
	www.lostnewyorkcity.com /buildingphotos/Plate-51-b.html (1046 words)

	San Francisco Cable Cars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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.
		The cable, in turn, is kept in motion by an engine in a centrally-located powerhouse.
	web.presby.edu /~jtbell/transit/SanFrancisco/CableCar (1028 words)

	All Aboard! Katoomba Scenic Railway - Blue Mountains Australia
		It's the steepest railway in the world (Guinness Book of Records), and originally part of the Katoomba mining tramways constructed between 1878 and 1900.
		The funicular railway line descends through sandstone cliffs, via a rock tunnel beside Orphan Rock, then emerges to spectacular views and lush fern-filled rainforest.
		History of the Katoomba Scenic Railway and associated mining tramways.
	infobluemountains.net.au /rail/ksr (206 words)

	San Diego streetcars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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)

	HistoryLink Essay:Cable cars enter service in Seattle on September 28, 1887. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Thompson had helped to develop San Francisco's first cable car lines and thought the technology was a natural to help people navigate Seattle's steep ridges and hills.
		Based on the success of the Lake Washington line, Thompson and Sander built a Front Street cable railway in 1888, which ran from Pioneer Square to Pike Street on today's 1st Avenue and returned along 2nd Avenue.
		Their North Seattle Cable Railway extended service to the top of Queen Anne Hill in 1891.
	www.historylink.org /essays/printer_friendly/index.cfm?file_id=2690 (301 words)

	Counterbalance
		Composed of three segments, the northern and third to be finished segment ran from the cable car power house at 2nd and Denny north up 2nd Ave.
		Completed on March 1, 1891, the northward extension was separately incorporated as the North Seattle Cable Railway.
		As a car approached each end, it stopped, and the counterbalance attendant would hook up the car to the counterbalance, a heavy weight attached to a cable that would move the opposite direction to the travel of the street car.
	www.qahistory.org /counterbalance.htm (331 words)

	Past: Historic transit heartland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The coming of the cable car and its speedy (9mph) trip downtown brought a building boom to the valley and the hills to the south, fueled by the extension of the line out Castro into Noe Valley to 26th Street.
		There was neighborhood support for keeping the cable cars, but the line was losing buckets of money, and the private operator could not sustain the losses.
		Tragically, no Castro cable cars were preserved, but Muni recently restored a near-twin from the Sacramento-Clay line (abandoned in 1942), which may one day operate on special occasions on the surviving California Street cable line.
	www.streetcar.org /ppf/past/castro (1723 words)

	Could you help me to find possible grammar mistakes here?. Thank you. - WordReference Forums
		Access by car: Yes, there are several parking lots at the different viewpoints as well as at the visitors centres and at the basis of the cable railway station.
		Fresh water: Available at the two visitors centres as well as at the cable railway station - I have problems with your "basis", I imagine you mean the main railway station building or "headquarters" maybe, but I hope somebody else can suggest a word for that.
		There are several parking lots at the different viewpoints as well as at the visitors' centres and at the basis of the cable railway station.
	forum.wordreference.com /showthread.php?t=6163 (1489 words)

	A brief history of Market Street Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Market Street Railway served as a catalyst for winning public funding and support to build the F-line historic streetcar service, and is now supporting plans for a second line, the E-Embarcadero, ultimately to link waterfront destinations from Pier 70 south of Mission Bay all the way to Crissy Field in the Presidio.
		Market Street Railway also operated a number of famous lines that are no more, such as the 40-line interurban streetcar, which connected Downtown San Francisco with the Peninsula, running as far south as San Mateo.
		Finally, in 1944, a bond issue was successful, and the assets and operations of Market Street Railway were absorbed into Muni (which immediately had to paint over all the white streetcar ends, to avoid paying patent royalties to the paper shell corporation of Market Street Railway that survived a while longer).
	www.streetcar.org /msr/history (1788 words)

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