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    A cable railway is a railway that uses a cable, rope or chain to haul trains. It is a specific type of cable transportation. The most common use for a...
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    A cable car (usually known as a cable tram outside North America) is a type of cable railway used for mass transit in which rail cars are hauled by a continuously...
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    Wharf. San Francisco's cable cars are listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is one of only two street railways to be named a National...
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  • balancea railway is a funicular, aerial tramway or cable railway that uses the weight of water to move its carriages. The oldest water balance railway was...
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  • suspended in the air from a cable Aerial tramway Chairlift Gondola lift Bicable gondola lift Tricable gondola lift Cable railway, in which the vehicle rests...
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    first Funicular railway was opened in Lyon in 1862. The Westside and Yonkers Patent Railway Company developed a cable-hauled elevated railway. This 3½ mile...
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    Funicular (redirect from Funicular railway)
    few-NIK-yoo-lər, f(y)uu-, f(j)ə-) is a type of cable railway system that connects points along a railway track laid on a steep slope. The system is characterized...
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    The Second Street Cable Railway was the first cable car system to open in Los Angeles. Opened in 1885, it ran from Second and Spring Streets to First...
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    The Augustusburg Cable Railway (German: Drahtseilbahn Augustusburg) is a funicular railway in Saxony, Germany. It connects the station of Erdmannsdorf-Augustusburg...
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    Cable car street railways first began operating in Los Angeles in 1885 and lasted until 1902, when the lines were electrified and electric streetcars...
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  • Prospect Mountain Cable Incline Railway (1895–1903) Niagara Falls, Prospect Park Incline Railway (1847–1907) Palenville, Otis Elevating Railway (1892–1918)...
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  • railway, a steeply graded railway that uses a cable or rope to haul trains Funicular (or funicular railway, a type of cable railway), a cable railway...
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    Tram (redirect from Cable-drawn)
    George W. 1997. The Cable Car in America: A New Treatise upon Cable or Rope Traction As Applied to the Working of Street and Other Railways, Revised Edition...
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    also known as the Market Street Railroad Company, the Market Street Cable Railway Company and the United Railroads of San Francisco. Once the largest...
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  • had several cable car lines, including the Second Street Cable Railroad, which operated from 1885 to 1889, and the Temple Street Cable Railway, which operated...
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    Inclined elevator (category Cable railways)
    An inclined elevator or inclined lift is a form of cable railway that hauls rail cars up a steep gradient. An inclined elevator consists of one or two...
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    Tower Subway (category 2 ft 6 in gauge railways in England)
    W. Barlow. A 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge railway was laid in the tunnel and from August 1870 a cable-hauled wooden carriage conveyed passengers from...
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    for use with the cable car. From Grütschalp to Mürren the line is continued as a 4.27 km (2.7 mi) long narrow gauge electric railway, which rises 152 m...
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    hill. This may include cars on rails or pulled up by a cable system; a funicular or cable railway, such as the Johnstown Inclined Plane. Inclined planes...
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    Kurama, Sakyō, Kyoto, Japan. The line is officially called Mount Kurama Cable Railway (鞍馬山鋼索鉄道, Kurama-yama Kōsaku Tetsudō). Distance: 0.2 km (0.12 mi) Vertical...
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  • (Eizan Cable) 京福電気鉄道 (叡山ケーブル) (Randen 嵐電) Keihan Electric Railway (Otokoyama Cable) 京阪電気鉄道 (男山ケーブル) Kintetsu Railway (Ikoma Cable, Nishi-Shigi Cable) 近畿日本鉄道...
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    a ladder extending to heaven. The ladder is all that remains of a cable railway that was built there in the early 1800s. Its tracks and cars were later...
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    section cable railway with stationary steam engines, in use from 1867 till 1970, called Serra Velha, transl.: Old Mountain A five section cable railway with...
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  • (Hakone Tozan Railway) Cable Line (Keifuku Electric Railroad) Cable Line (Keihan Electric Railway) Cable Line (Nankai Electric Railway) Cable Line (Nose...
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    Cable Sakamoto Station (ケーブル坂本駅, Kēburu-Sakamoto-eki) is a funicular railway station located in the city of Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan, operated by...
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    Canal inclined plane (category Railway inclines)
    An inclined plane is a type of cable railway used on some canals for raising boats between different water levels. Boats may be conveyed afloat, in caissons...
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    A rack railway (also rack-and-pinion railway, cog railway, or cogwheel railway) is a steep grade railway with a toothed rack rail, usually between the...
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    A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the seabed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean...
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    The Ikoma Cable Line (生駒鋼索線, Ikoma kōsaku sen), referred to as Ikoma Cable (生駒ケーブル, Ikoma kēburu), is a cable railway line owned and operated by the Kintetsu...
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    Gelmer Funicular (category Funicular railways in Switzerland)
    The Gelmer Funicular is a cable railway in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. It links a lower terminus at Handegg, in the Haslital (the valley of the upper...
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