The San Francisco cable car system began service on Clay Street in 1873 and is the world's last manually operated cable car system, still carrying passengers over the city's hills on three lines today. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Completion Year SignificanceListed on the National Register of Historic Places and named a National Historic Landmark, one of only two street railways to hold that status. 1 Classification
Heritage DesignationNationally Designated Heritage Site 1 Connections
Operated By
Source Wikipedia: San Francisco Cable Car System
Disputed
Why this is disputed. Hallidie promoted and likely contributed to the design of the original Clay Street Hill line; the named engineer of record was William Eppelsheimer, and sources disagree on the extent of Hallidie's own hands-on role.
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WikipediaIntroduction
The San Francisco cable car system is the world's last manually operated cable car system and an icon of the city of San Francisco, California.
Introduction, system description
The San Francisco cable car system is the world's last manually operated cable car system and an icon of the city of San Francisco, California.
Heritage designation section
San Francisco's cable cars are listed on the National Register of Historic Places; the system is one of only two street railways to be named a National Historic Landmark.
Article lead
cable cars are listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Pioneered By: Andrew Smith Hallidie, History
Accounts differ as to exactly how involved Hallidie was in the inception of the Clay Street Hill Railway.
In Group: Urban Rapid Transit Systems, Lead
forms part of the intermodal urban transport network
Operated By: San Francisco Municipal Railway, Infobox: operator
San Francisco Municipal Railway
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