cable car

     

A cable car is any of a variety of transportation systems relying on cables to pull vehicles along or lower them at a steay rate, or a vehicle on these systems.

Trivia about cable car

  • The Powell-Mason, the Powell-Hyde & the California St. are the 3 working lines of this type of transportation
  • This means of transportation invented by Andrew Hallidie was first used in San Francisco in 1873
  • This vehicle on the streets of San Francisco doesn't have an engine on it, just brakes & a grip lever
  • On July 20, 1999 the opening bell was rung off of Wall Street; way off, it was on one of these in San Francisco
  • Suspended from an overhead wire, it transports passengers up steep hills or across valleys
  • This mode of transportation adorns boxes of Rice-a-Roni

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