Cable Car Primer

If you spend any amount of time in San Francisco

You will have sighting

Besides PCC’s

they are my other weakness

There are 3 lines remaining :

Poweel and Mason

Powell and Hyde

California street

Powell and Hyde is famous for the long and very steep drop to the terminus at Hyde and Beach

it is actually a combination of the O’Farrell, Jones and Hyde and the Powell lines

Powell and Mason is an original route, as it was

This line terminates at a turntable at Bay and Taylor

The Mason line has more gentle slopes than the Hyde line

after the initial climb up Powell street, that is !

Goodbye, cable cars !

see you next time !

We need to get you over on the Classic Trains forum: http://cs.trains.com/ctr/f/3.aspx

Indeed! That’s where your shots really belong!

Something’s wrong with those cable cars though. Where’s the “Rice-A-Roni” posters? [:O]

This is going to sound dumb but…I always used to sing it as “Rise of Roni, the Sas Frasnoscu treat.” [:-^]

That was a very successful ad campaign. People will forever associate the S.F. Cable cars with Rice-a-Roni !

Of course, it’s a lot of syllables for a young child to pronounce… I think you made a respectable effort !