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Photos of Powell And Hyde Street (1)
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Powell And Hyde Street
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B & W
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California
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San Francisco
#487 — A close up picture taken of a San Francisco Cable Car which makes its way up
Powell
and
Hyde
St. 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 is kept in motion by an engine in a centrally-located powerhouse. The cable car system was developed in San Francisco because of a guy named
And
rew Hallidie whom in 1869 witnessed a horse-car accident
and
wanted to develop a cable railway to stop such accidents. In 1873 HGallidie tested the first cable car system near the top of Nob HIll at Clay
and
Jones
Street
s. Ever since this date the Cable Car system kept growing
and
became one of the symbols of San Francisco.
Cable Car,
Powell
&
Hyde
Sts.