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San Francisco, California
The San Francisco Municipal Railway operates three historic cable car lines in downtown San Francisco, California. Both single- and double-ended cars utilize an underground cable propelled along the routes by a central powerhouse complex. The current fleet is a mixture of refurbished cars long in the fleet and modern replications of the classic design.
Cable car route map
Cars
San Francisco #508
Cable car / San Francisco / Feb 1968 / JCH
San Francisco / Feb 1968 / JCH
San Francisco #23
Cable car / San Francisco / 1978 / JCH
San Francisco / 1978 / JCH
San Francisco #12
Cable car / San Francisco / 1978 / JCH
Lagniappe
San Francisco / Feb 1968 / Lucile Hawkins
San Francisco / Feb 1968 / Lucile Hawkins
A 1968 business trip took my parents from north Alabama to the west coast, where dad presented an electrical engineering paper at a San Francisco conference. In between meetings, there was time to ride the famous cable cars, and down at the Powell Street station my dad posed for two pictures snapped by my mother. These just might be the most dapper photographs of my father I posses.
Links / Sources
- The San Francisco Cable Car Website
- Wikipedia article for San Francisco cable cars
- Cable Car Museum