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unusual facts about cable car



Bannalpsee

The lake can be reached by a cable car from Oberrickenbach, which in turn is linked by post bus service to Wolfenschiessen station on the Luzern–Stans–Engelberg railway line.

Dušan Jurkovič

Among the best known of his later works is the tombs of Jozef Miloslav Hurban and Milan Rastislav Štefánik, monument to Slovak National Uprising, and the cable car station at Lomnický štít in the High Tatras mountains.

Friedel Klussmann

In 1947, Mayor of San Francisco Roger Lapham proposed the closure of the two Powell Street cable car lines, which were owned by the city as part of the San Francisco Municipal Railway.

Le Lioran

This prompted a major contributor to the development of the resort with the construction of the Téléphérique du Plomb du Cantal, an eighty place cable car, completed in 1967 with the aid of, and inaugurated by, locally born Georges Pompidou who would shortly succeed Charles de Gaulle as President of France.

Maria-Rickenbach

The monastery is accessible only by cable car from Niederrickenbach Station on the Luzern–Stans–Engelberg railway line.

Niederrickenbach railway station

The station is adjacent to the lower station of the cable car, to the hamlet of Niederrickenbach and the convent of Maria-Rickenbach, from which it takes its name.

Passo dei Salati

It is reached by two modern cableways, a gondola from Gabiet above Gressoney-La-Trinité and a cable car from above Alagna, and is an important link for the Monterosa Ski area, which one of the largest in Italy.

Tramways of Bogotá

The aerial tramway or cable car to Monserrate began its construction on August 13, 1953 and was inaugurated on September 27, 1955; in a bicable modality with two cabins that transport 40 passengers each.

Walter Knott

Early additions to the farm included the Ghost Town & Calico Railway, a narrow gauge railroad in the Ghost Town area, a San Francisco cable car, a Pan-for-Gold attraction, the Calico Mine Train dark ride and the Timber Mountain Log Ride log flume ride.

William Eppelsheimer

This was the first practical cable car line in the world and the first line in what was to become the San Francisco cable car system, although that line is more often attributed to its promoter, Andrew Smith Hallidie.


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A Trip Down Market Street

The film begins at 8th Street and continues eastward to the cable car turntable, at The Embarcadero, in front of the San Francisco Ferry Building.

Andrew Hallidie

Andrew Smith Hallidie, promoter of the first line of the San Francisco cable car system

Beitou Cable Car

The proposed 4.9km Beitou cable car line to ferry tourists between Xinbeitou Station and the Yangmingshan National Park would have four stops, the first of which would be built near the skating rink at Chingshui Park.

Cavalese

The cable car from Cavalese to the nearby mountain Cermis has been the site of two major cable-car accidents, one in 1976 and one in 1998 (due to a U.S. Marine Corps Northrop Grumman EA-6B Prowler aircraft cutting the cable during a training exercise, killing 20 people).

Clay Street Hill Railroad

In Herbie Rides Again, Mrs. Steimetz owns a cable car from the Clay Street Hill Railroad, which she calls "Old 22".

Courmayeur

This links to the Vallée Blanche Aerial Tramway going to the Aiguille du Midi, which connects to the Téléphérique de l'Aiguille du Midi, the cable car from Chamonix.

Dunedin cable tramway system

It is significant as Dunedin was the second city in the world to adopt the cable car (the first being San Francisco).

The Mornington line was the last to close, on March 2, 1957, leaving San Francisco with the only operational cable car system in the world.

Edge of Eternity

The climax of the film, involving a fight on a cable car suspended above the Grand Canyon, was filmed in the aerial tramway to the Bat Cave mine, in the western Grand Canyon of Arizona.

Hyde Street

The street also became famous for Rice-A-Roni commercials, in which at the end of almost every commercial, it ends with a cable car on the street.

Jokke Sommer

Then, they fly between the mountains Tianmen in China, where Espen Fadnes narrowly escaped collision with a cable car.

LINK Train

The service uses two trains of six cars each, built by DCC Doppelmayr Cable Car GmbH, a company based in Wolfurt, Austria.

Manakamana Cable Car

Opened on November 24, 1998, the Manakamana Cable Car runs between Cheres, Chitwan and Manakamana, Gorkha.

Pocketful of Rainbows

In the film version Juliet Prowse (who lip-synched to Loulie Jean Norman's voice) can be seen singing along with Elvis in a cable car in the small German tourist-town Rüdesheim am Rhein

Rosh HaNikra grottoes

The cable car was manufactured by Austrian manufacturer Doppelmayr Garaventa Group, and claims to be the steepest cable car in the world, ascending at a gradient of 60 degrees.

Santorini cable car

The Santorini cable car connects the port with the town of Thera in Santorini island in Greece.

Southside 1-1000

The final fight-to-the-death scene was filmed aboard Los Angeles' "Angels Flight", a cable-car service hanging 40 feet above the ground.

Tyrolean Zugspitze Cable Car

The modern Tyrolean Zugspitze Cable Car has a top station opposite the one of the German Eibsee Cable Car system.

Vallnord

It encompasses the linked sectors of Pal and Arinsal (the sectors were linked by a cable car, opened in 2005, from the top of the Arinsal sector) and the Ordino-Arcalis sector some kilometres away.

Wellington Cable Car

Initially both contracts were won by Harbour City Cable Car Ltd, a joint venture between the Stagecoach Group, which had purchased the buses, and East by West, a Wellington ferry operator.

William Eppelsheimer

Eppelsheimer went on to design the Chicago City Railway, at one time the world's largest and most profitable cable car system, and London's Highgate Hill Cable Tramway, Europe's first cable tramway.

Wings of Tatev

Gathered in the country's southern mountains near the border with Iran, guests including president Serzh Sarkisian and the head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Karekin II, took part as the cable car link launched its first official voyage over the Vorotan River Gorge.