Calendar: San Francisco cable car California with cable car 52 on California Street (2023)
Archive: Henrik Boye.
Photographer: Jim Maurer.
Publisher: San Francisco Railway Museum.
Date: May 2023.
City: San Francisco (United States).
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San Francisco Cable Cars
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San Francisco cable car California: California & Van Ness - California & Drumm
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San Francisco cable car 52, type San Francisco Cable car, with 29 seats and 31 standing places, signed Market St Chinatown Nob Hill & Van Ness Via California St, painted Van Ness Ave. California & Market Streets.
Description
California Street Cable Car 52 crosses Powell l Jim Maurer photo
May 2023
This is the only double-track cable car crossing in the world, on Nob Hill. The California cable line opened i 1878; the Powell lines ten years later. Because cars on both lines were climbing hills and couldn't see the intersection until they were in it, a tower was installed to signal cable cars when it was safe to proceed. This tower was installed in 1907 and renovated with Market Street Railway's help in 2021
Looking down California Street to the Bay just east of inersection, 1881.
The California Street Cable Railroad Company operated these small 2dummy and trailer" two-car cable trains until the early 1890s, when they pioneered the double-end open-and-closed section combination cars of the type widely copied as streetcar bodies, and still seen on California Street as cable cars today.
Photo from opensfhistory.org,
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