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Photos of Trolley Car Street (2)
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Trolley Car Street
, available on our website. They are pictured below.The pictures are organized by category.
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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
car
s are unique in that they are the only
street
railway in which the
car
s do not operate under their own power. Instead, the
car
s 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 Andrew 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.
#1574 — A scenic picture taken of an orange cable
car
in downtown San Francisco right by the warf.
Orange Cable
Car