Thursday, July 31, 2014

San Francisco Antique Cable Car Museum

Amazing engineering that still works even after several earth quakes. The inventors of those days intended things to last for a long time. Something General Motors, Ford and Chrysler don't understand.
 

Wooden forms for casting replacement parts
 
 


Original Museum sign


Maintenance shop

Gift shop

An earlier Cable Car


Metal Lathe

A young admirer of the motor cable works

Wooden brake shoes

Powell Street Car


The grip grabs the moving cable and pulls the cars along the tracks

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