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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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  • 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)
    (/fjuːˈnɪkjʊlər, f(j)ʊ-, 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 Augustusburg Cable Railway (German: Drahtseilbahn Augustusburg) is a funicular railway in Saxony, Germany. It connects the station of Erdmannsdorf-Augustusburg...
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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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    Tram (redirect from Cable-drawn)
    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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    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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  • horse-drawn streetcars and cable cars, and later extensive electric streetcar networks of the Los Angeles Railway and Pacific Electric Railway and their predecessors...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    the rope of the cable railway. On the centenary of the cableway in 2012, Google honored it with a doodle, viewable in Brazil. This cable car also appears...
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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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  • Waterballast railway is a funicular or aerial tramway without a prime mover that uses gravity as its motive power. A synonym for this is water weight cable car...
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    The Mount Tsukuba Cable Car (筑波山ケーブルカー, Tsukubasan Kēburukā), officially the Mount Tsukuba Cable Railway Line (筑波山鋼索鉄道線, Tsukubasan Kōsaku Tetsudō-sen)...
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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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    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 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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    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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    The Hogwarts Express is an 1,800 mm (5 ft 10+7⁄8 in) broad gauge cable railway, people mover, and attraction within the Universal Orlando Resort in Orlando...
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    Glasgow Subway (category Railway loop lines)
    is also one of the very few railways in the world with a track running gauge of 4 ft (1,219 mm). Originally a cable railway, the subway was later electrified...
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    A cable-stayed bridge has one or more towers (or pylons), from which cables support the bridge deck. A distinctive feature are the cables or stays, which...
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