The San Francisco cable car system is the world's last manually operated cable car system. An icon of San Francisco, the cable car system forms part of the intermodal urban transport network operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway. Of the 23 lines established between 1873 and 1890, only three remain.[1]
Coverage[]
The cable cars are featured in Bound and Buried starting in 1 day after people when the cable cars of San Francisco are out of service.
The show gave information that the cable cars pulled up and down some of the world's steepest urban hills by a wire cable. Steven S. Ross shows a sheave room and explains that as it turn, it move the cable at 9.5 miles an hour with the cable cars grab onto the cable as they move. Once power shut down, the pulleys stop. Hanging by wire thread, the world famous cable cars are frozen in their tracks.
A cable car heading down the hill, into a parked car.
In 2 years after people, one of the cable cars is becoming a bullet train. The inner core of the cables that run beneath the streets is made of plain rope and two years have rotted it away, enough for the car to break free and becomes an eight-ton missile of wood and steel. Steven S. Ross stated that the most likely to run into first is a vehicle blocking its way, where it can slice right through it at a speed.
Trivia[]
- The cable car number shown in the episode is 13, possibly related to it being an unlucky number.
- The vehicle hit by the cable car is a 97' BMW 840i.
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