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San Francisco's beloved cable cars

As a part of the Cable Car Gearbox Rehab Project, Muni will run bus shuttles for the Powell-Hyde, Powell-Mason and California cable car lines starting Sept. 13, 2019 for about 10 days.

Release time : 2019-09-17 11:50:10
source : San Francisco Travel Association

NOTICE: As a part of the Cable Car Gearbox Rehab Project, Muni will run bus shuttles for the Powell-Hyde, Powell-Mason and California cable car lines starting Sept. 13, 2019 for about 10 days. For more information visit sfmta.com. Ever ride a national landmark? It’s being done everyday by both tourists and natives in San Francisco. The City’s cable cars were named a National Historic Landmark in 1964 by the US Interior Department’s National Park Service, and it couldn’t have happened to a more worthy institution.

The Cable Car Barn, Powerhouse and Museum is known as “Home ” to the cable cars. It is here that the cars not only depart and arrive daily on their 11 miles of wrapped steel “rope” going a steady 9 1/2 miles per hour, but also where visitors find a variety of spectacular sights. The Museum houses one of the very first cable cars (1873), a Sutter St. grip car and trailer, as well as scale models of some of the 57 different types of cable cars, which were once operated in the city. From the gallery, visitors can look down onto pulleys, which thread the cable through big figure eight’s and back into the system via slack-absorbing tension racks. Daily visiting hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Oct.- Mar.) and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Apr. - Sept.). And if just seeing the sights in the museum are not enough motivation to come visit, how about the fact that it’s free?

There are currently 40 cars in service: 28 “single-enders” serve the Powell Street routes and 12 “double-enders” serve the California Street route. The cables pull up to 26 cars at a time on weekdays. The cars have a capacity of carrying more than 60 people, and an astounding 7.5 million passengers ride these cars each year.

As the operators of these nationally designated moving landmarks, the cable car grip persons and conductors constitute something of an elite corps among public transit personnel. While the grip

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