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Posted On: June 26th 2026, 03:34 am
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San Francisco is home to the worlds last manually operated cable car system and it is so much fun to research the equipment and look up the history of the cars you see in operation.

🚋: Car 3 was built in 1893 by Carter Brothers and has served the Powell Line since 1906!

🚋: Car 28 was built in 2004 by Muni Shops

🚋: San Francisco Municipal Railway
🛤️: 3’ 6” gauge
🚋: Cable Car
📸: June | 2025

🚋: #cablecar #travel #historic #americana #transit
Comments (10)
tristanwilder 2 months ago

tristanwilder

I never knew they made new ones … always thought it was just one batch that has been rolling forever

hemorrhoid_eater 4 months ago

hemorrhoid_eater

it's interesting how all of these were built to basically the same blueprints and at no point in time did they ever think to design a newer more modern look, i like it

zarkanator07 4 months ago
vonbs_transit_page 4 months ago

vonbs_transit_page

We’re now critiquing cable cars, need more lore like this!

b_mc1013 4 months ago

b_mc1013

Oh damn! I thought manual just meant someone driving it but that’s crazy!

b_mc1013 4 months ago

b_mc1013

Is Tampa’s cable car system not manually operated or am I mistaken?

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