Showing posts with label transportation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transportation. Show all posts

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