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This is a very old system, had this in Edinburgh many years ago, before I was born and I'm 87 now.

Me when I'm pulled along by an underground cable:

Very interesting! I have never thought of those special pulleys under the ground. What I do not understand is why they have to lift to cable at e.g. that terminal point, to grip it. A cable car has to be able to stop anywhere on the line, and than they have to open the grip to let go of the cable. So when then want to continue they have to grip the cable again, but there is not an cable lifting lever in the street everywhere...

Mint, thank you ☺

It is not 130 (?) years old. It was completely rebuilt / replaced during the 1980s. New rails and everything.

What a beautiful tram! Such a shame they got rid of them. Fun fact: early Dutch trams were blue too. Look up 'blauwe tram'.

what a hilariously stupid system

ARE THE SF CABLE CARS SAFE ? OR DO YOU HAVE MARAUDING TERRORIST BLACKIES ROBBING AND THREATENING TO SHOOT EVERYONE LIKE YOU DO ON THE SUBWAY CARS IN NEW YORK CITY ???

Junk

Makes me sorta hungry for Rice-a-Roni... and I ain't never ate Rice-a-Roni.

Any idea who's doing the boilers ? Seem to remember it was a Polish company that built Tornado's.

Sometimes the repairs on the cable when they break are beneficial to the streetcar because the repair is slightly larger than the cable and the grips actually are assisted by the repair.

Leave it to Crappyfornia to have such an overly complicated, high maintenance trolly.

thanks u, always wanted to know hou exactly this works.

This seems ridiculously inefficient. I'm not surprised, though, considering it's California.

Cheers with much positive and forceful happiness. Cables Car make big success journey!

I heard that the other one was a replica of 61662 Manchester United. But the project was cancelled and it got switched to 61673 Spirit of Sandringham instead.

When will 61673 Spirit of Sandringham be in steam for the first time?

When will 72010 Hengist and 61673 Spirit of Sandringham be in steam for the first time?

When will 72010 Hengist be in steam for the first time?

There is a solutions created here in Brazil using a duct of compressed air bellow the line. It allows 20% of ramp. It is the people mover of Guarulhos Intl Airport in Sao Paulo Brazil. ruclips.net/video/QNFEWPRh6jA/видео.htmlsi=_Bfvk3Fl9iEcSNib

About 30 years ago, on my first visit to San Fran, I was enamored by the whole system, so I spent a day riding, chatting with the brakeman and the gripman and visiting the Cable Car Museum where the power sources are. Absolutely fascinating, I really hope they keep it all going.

This is the first time I get full information on how these cable cars work. Great video!

*One of the most SH*TTY descriptions of how something works that I've ever seen! FAIL...*

Thanks for the nice explanation. Learned a lot. Keeping the cable under "the same tension" as much as possible will also help in the longlevity of the cable. Less metalfatigue! Of course the tension can never be completely constant, as the cable cars use a force in the direction of the cable to propel themselves. This principle of keeping the cable tension constant is fully used in the cable cars (in the mountains) that "ride" on one cable and get pulled by a second smaller cable.

One more video about it, please don’t copy, moreover you’rnt American but British,

what a hassle system

I lived there for 10 years and whenever my public transit options suggested a cable car I was thrilled. Even locals think it's fun!

Didn't knew they were cable cars

Didn't knew they were cable cars

fantastic video I LOVE it. thank you so much.

Excellent video, my very best wishes to all involved in the building of these great locomotives. 👍🚂

Nice video! I'm very surprised about the cable lifespan, of 75 to 250 days, it seems very short, are you sure of that?

2:14 was the pigeon fined for jaywalking?

I highly recommend visit the cable car museum in San Francisco, and you can see the equipment running, and the tension pulleys move back and forth as the cables stretch and shrink as cars accelerate and decelerate, as the cable also slows the cable cars going downhill which balance the cable cars going uphill so the motors are surprisingly small. They also have equipment on display.

TRAGICZNIE TO TŁUMACZYSZ - NIC z tego NIE ROZUMIEM !!!!!

Amazing engineering

Vastly outdated and seems inefficient, but it's still interesting to see it being kept up as a working piece of history.

I don't think it's good, better would be mounting motors in cars and replacing cabel with third rail for power

Fascinating, thanks for the explanation.

I had no idea. Many thanks indeed.

Very good but you didn't show how the junctions are dealt with.

Having to replace the each cable run every75-120 days seems like it would be cost prohibitive.

And not a single computerized piece of crap within 1000 feet. Amazing

Thanks for giving us these insights ! Actually I had been to SF early 2018. And we had a gerat day on the cable cars using a day pass. We did enjoy it very, very much. One tip for people planning a on this iconic passenger transport: Try to avoid the peak times ! That might mean to get up early, very early. But it's worth it - for sure !

It's nice to learn something you always wanted to know, but never knew you wanted to know.

Seems like a lot could go very very wrong if you don't focus 100% or a passenger distracts a driver when one of these "let go of the cable" events need to happen; how much to the drivers get paid, and how does that compare to eg Bus or Regional Rail in the area?

I think the people working on the 4709 Night Owl project should see this.

I saw another video of how this system works a good while back. Very informative and went in to much more detail than this one. Using 3D computer graphics, moving models of how everything works in great detail answered many of my questions. Also, this video dues not explain how the California Street Line has priority owed the other lines at intersections. The other lines have to drop the cable and coast across the intersection. I'm from the UK but I visited San Francisco a few years ago. Rode all the cable car routes and visited the museum. An amazing system and much steeper than I imagined.

didn't mention how the lights on the cable cars work, basically they have batteries that get recharged in the car barn