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We are in Market Street and we'll depart with the Cable Car line Powell...
...and we will climb Powell Street
The cable car was invented by a British..
..at the end of 1800
Because San Francisco is built on hills,...
...there are roads with high slope.
In the past was difficult to climb up with horses
It is an underground cables system...
...and the car is grip on those..
in order to be carry up
The 4 underground cable lines driving system is centralized
The Cable Car would have been abandoned after the II world war
but then protest from population expecially from women..
cause the authorities to change mind
It is the only one cable car running in the world
and recently it was revamped.
So now it can run for at least the next 100 years.
This are the rails
In the middle, underground, is where the cable run
Can you here this noise ?
It is made by the cable running underground
The car is grip on that cable by a claw
The breaking system instead...
...is made by pine wood brake shoes..
...that they rub against the rails
These brake shoes are changed each 2 days