The Cable Car Museum in San Francisco, California

The Cable Car Museum is located
in the Cable Car Barn & Powerhouse
at Washington & Mason.








There's no fee for the museum.  The Gift Shop is run by the Friends of the Cable 
Car Museum.

The first cable cars

 were open.

The grip is like a giant pair
of pliers that reaches into
the channel & clamps
onto the table.

Later, they were

enclosed.

Andrew Smith Hallidie used his experience in suspension bridge construction to create the San Francisco's cable car system.  He tested the first cable car system on August 2, 1873 at Clay and Jones Streets.  On September 1 the Clay Street Line started.  More cable car lines were built.  The Cable Car Barn and Powerhouse was built in 1887,

Engines power the winding 
wheels that pull the cables.

The workshop where workmen

make new parts for the

cable cars.

The door to the Cable Car
Barn is open.

On the wall is a 

Rice-A-Roni sign.