Cable Car Museum
Working powerhouse and carbarn displaying antique cable cars alongside the winding machinery still pulling live cables.
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This guide to the Cable Car Museum in San Francisco opens on August 2, 1873, when the hired driver refused to test the city's first cable car and inventor Andrew Hallidie climbed aboard himself to grip the cable down Clay Street's grade. You'll hear the legend behind why Hallidie built the system, and how eight rival companies soon paid him to string their own cables across the city. Listen for the story of Leland Stanford's line and the thirty thousand dollars said to buy passage past his mansion.
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