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Author | : George Woodman Hilton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780804730525 |
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The book is a treatise on passenger transport using wire rope traction for carriers operating on rail, popularly cable cars or street railways. The system is described. There are extensive photographs and drawings of components, particularly, carriers, grips, brakes, stationary drives, and the haulage ropes. System design, construction, operation and maintenance are covered in detail along with the powerhouses and drive machinery. Cable car economics is covered for principal cities in America. Fully illustrated with photographs and drawings. Bibliography. (CFD).
Author | : George Woodman Hilton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : |
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Enriched with almost 700 illustrations, this book has long been the definitive study of the American cable car, a widely touted form of urban transportation that operated in 29 cities across the United States. This once-promising technology proved inefficient, however, and cable cars were soon replaced by electric trolley cars. Today, they are only to be found as a tourist attraction traversing the steep hills of San Francisco. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author | : George W. Hilton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : HISTORY |
ISBN | : 9781503616752 |
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Enriched with almost 700 illustrations, this book has long been the definitive study of the American cable car, a widely touted form of urban transportation that operated in 29 cities across the United states. This once-promising technology proved inefficient, however, and cable cars were soon replaced by electric trolley cars. Today, they are only to be found as a tourist attraction traversing the steep hill of San Francisco.
Author | : Walter Rice |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738525556 |
Download San Francisco's California Street Cable Cars Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Christopher Swan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780898151459 |
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Author | : Charles A. Smallwood |
Publisher | : Random House Value Publishing |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780517408780 |
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Book tells the history of the cable car in the San Francisco area. From the beginnings of the concept by Andrew Hallidie through the cable car companies and their various lines, the history has many illustrations. Appendices. (jvl).
Author | : Mike Palmer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Cable cars (Streetcars) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Emiliano Echeverria |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738530475 |
Download San Francisco's Powell Street Cable Cars Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
San Francisco's cable cars are an internationally recognized symbol of the city, but they also have a long and fractious history. There are actually three cable lines in operation today: the California Street line and the two Powell Street lines-- the Powell-Mason and Powell-Hyde. The Powell Street lines have been the subject of much controversy through the years, due to a complex lineage of private and public ownership. Cable cars on Powell Street began in 1888, operating under the Ferries and Cliff House Railway Company and utilizing the same basic design pioneered by Andrew Hallidie in 1873. Among the story's twists and turns are the line's actual routes following the 1906 earthquake, which caused heavy damage and forced major repairs. Post-quake, United Railroads was able to replace many of the cable car lines with streetcars, including a part of the Powell Street system. San Francisco at one time had eight separate cable car operators. Gradually most were replaced by streetcars, buses, and trolley buses, given the complexities and expense of cable systems. The Powell lines were taken over by the city in 1944, but the mayor tried to abandon them in 1947. The public disapproved of this move, and since then the Powell Street line has only grown in stature and its importance to San Francisco.
Author | : Virginia Lee Burton |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780395828472 |
Download Maybelle the Cable Car Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Maybelle loves to carry people up and down the hilly streets of San Francisco, until the City Fathers decide that she should be taken out of service in the name of progress.
Author | : George Woodman Hilton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Railroads, Cable |
ISBN | : |
Download The Cable Car in America; a New Treatise Upon Cable Or Rope Traction As Applied to the Working of Street and Other Railways, by George W. Hilton. Cartography by James A. Bier Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle