HD: Cable Cars of San Francisco 6-10-15 & 6-11-15

[@Davett53]

10/6/22......THANK YOU!.......Oh so much fun and good memories. We visited SF in 1988 & 89, and rode the cable cars often. I loved them,....the whole experience was a treat.

[@ebtmikado]

At 9:18 is the most interesting track configuration on the entire cable car system.

[@LehighValleyrailfan]

Great video! I was just there two weeks ago!

[@Mike77E9]

LehighValleyrailfan Productions Thanks!

[@ebtmikado]

Excellent! You know how Lee feels about street railways.

[@Mike77E9]

ebtmikado Oh yes, we instantly fell in love with the street railways in San Fran. Wish I got footage of the street cars too!

[@ebtmikado]

THE BALLAD OF THE HYDE STREET GRIP Oh, the rain is slanting sharply, and the Norther’s blowing cold, When the cable strands are loosened, she is nasty hard to hold; There’s little time for sitting down and little time for gab, For the bumper guards the crossing, and you’d best be keeping tab! Two-and-twenty “let-go’s” every double trip It takes a bit of doing, on the Hyde Street Grip! Throw her off at Powell Street, let her go at Post, Watch her well at Geary and at Sutter, when you coast, Easy at the Power House, have a care at Clay, Sacramento, Washington, Jackson, all the way! Drop the rope at Union, never make a slip The lever keeps you busy, on the Hyde Street Grip! Foot-brake, wheel-brake, slot-brake and gong, You’ve got to keep ’em working, or you’ll soon be going wrong! Rush her on the crossing, catch her on the rise, Easy round the corners, when the dust is in your eyes! And the bell will always stop you, if you hit her up a clip You are apt to earn your wages, on the Hyde Street Grip! North Beach to Tenderloin, over Russian Hill, The grades are something giddy, and the curves are fit to kill! All the way to Market Street, climbing up the slope, Down upon the other side, hanging to the rope; But the sight of San Francisco, as you take the lurching dip! There is plenty of excitement, on the Hyde Street Grip! If you had to drive a penny bus from Chelsea to the Strand You’d see Westminster Abbey, and you’d say that it was grand! If you had to pass the Luxembourg and the Place de la Concorde Atop a Paris omnibus, no doubt you’d thank the Lord! But the Frenchy’d give his chapeau and the Cockney’d give his whip For a sight of San Francisco from the Hyde Street Grip! Oh, the lights are in the Mission, and the ships are in the Bay: And Tamalpais is looming from the Gate, across the way; The Presidio trees are waving, and the hills are growing brown, And the driving fog is harried from the Ocean to the town! How the pulleys slap the rattle! How the cables hum and whip! Oh, they sing a gallant chorus, on the Hyde Street Grip! When the Orpheum is closing, and the crowd is on the way, The conductor’s punch is ringing, and the dummy’s light and gay; But the wait upon the table by the Beach is dark and still Just the swashing of the surges on the shore below the mill; And the flash of Angel Island breaks across the channel rip, As the lash of midnight falls upon the Hyde Street Grip!

[@gloriettaeroy4031]

Oh, San Francisco...

[@Davett53]

Now that I am old and partially handicapped, I realize you can't be that way in SF. You need both your legs to be working perfectly. You can't use crutches or a walker, or be in a wheelchair. The hills would be murder on crutches. When I was younger I drove a gasoline engine motor scooter, I'm not sure it would have been powerful enough to drive on those steep streets. I see scooters, parked, in places. My scooter, had a lot of torque, and probably could have managed those hills. I'm glad I live in flat boring, Columbus, Ohio. Well now, because of my crippled legs.

[@TheViRoCo]

Great video!

[@Mike77E9]

Thanks!

[@mariajosedemichiel8588]

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[@upstatenewyorkrailfan6775]

the island at the background

[@busologoeamoseriesantigas7541]

demais amigo