Grey sky portrait cable car on steep incline Hyde Street, towards Hyde Street Pier historic ships and Bay waters, San Francisco
Cable Car 6 on Hyde Street incline above North Point. Originally horse-drawn, the San Francisco Cable Cars were electrified in 1892. Cable cars, in contrast to street cars (trams), are pulled by a cable running below the street. The cable, cm in diameter, is held by a grip that extends from the cable car through a slit in the street surface between the rails. Each cable runs at a constant speed of mph ( kph) and is driven by a 510 HP (380 kw) engine in a central power house. The Powell-Hyde Line (Line 60) runs north, towards the steep incline of Hyde Street, from the terminal at Powell and Hyde Street. San Francisco Municipal Railway's Cable Car System is the last manually operated cable car system in the world. Hyde Street Pier historic ships include the red stack Hercules, built 1907 for the Shipowners and Merchants Company, San Francisco, as an ocean-going tug that towed barges, sailing ships and log rafts between Pacific ports. In 1924 it was acquired by the Western Pacific Railroad, shuttling rail car barges across San Francisco Bay, until replaced by a diesel tug in 1957. Acquired by the San Francisco Maritime Park 1975, it was restored 1977. The white paddle ferry Eureka was built by the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1890 and was a rail freight ferry called Ukiah before being converted to a car ferry and re-named Eureka in 1923. It was a floating portion of US Highway 101, connecting Sausalito to San Francisco until 1941. The opening of the Golden Gate Bridge in 1937 put an end to car ferries to and from Sausalito. The three-masted Balclutha was a steel hull cargo ship registered at Glasgow in 1886. It carried cargoes of coal, grain, pottery, Chile nitrates, Scotch Whisky back and forth from California to Europe, its 25 man crew sailing round Cape Horn 17 times between 1886 and 1899, when the ship was re-registered in Hawaii. In 1902, re-named Star of Alaska, it ferried salmon cannery workers and canned salmon from Alaska to San Francisco.
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Location: Hyde Street incline to North Point and Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco, California, USS
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
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