They're Back! Rebuilding America's Cable Cars

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6thFloorControl

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@centralcal6604
@centralcal6604 2 жыл бұрын
Love those cable cars I hope they never get rid of them
@KaliforniaLA
@KaliforniaLA 18 күн бұрын
I grew up in Sunnyvale but I had never ridden the entire route of the cable cars. Finally at 61, I rode the whole loop a month ago. I love that they’re the only national monument in America that moves.
@GeraldMiller-mp8fc
@GeraldMiller-mp8fc 17 күн бұрын
The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse was moved further inland.
@KaliforniaLA
@KaliforniaLA 17 күн бұрын
@ it moved once. I was there.
@royreynolds108
@royreynolds108 9 күн бұрын
The steamboat DELTA QUEEN (built for the Oakland to Sacramento service in 1926) also carries that distinction but on water.
@blanchjoe1481
@blanchjoe1481 24 күн бұрын
I lived in The Baghdad By The Bay for 30 years from 1975 to 2005 and spent 20 of those years on Union and Hyde in a tiny no-bedroom studio listening to the cable under the street. I watched the crews tear up Hyde street and was able to see into the street where the original cable had run. That track cable space had not seen daylight since it was created, they had used hollowed or halved Timber Logs to act as the travel way for the cable. I remember riding the Hyde street line to downtown to go to work, some places the tracks were so bad the car with sway pretty bad on a turn, so it was often necessary to tell an unwary tourist or someone new to The City to "...hold on NOW..." otherwise they would go flying.
@rogerdale5451
@rogerdale5451 21 күн бұрын
Wow man! I lived at Hyde/ Pine from '90 to '99, across the street from the St. Francis Hospital. I had Cala Foods and a laundry there on the only two flat blocks of Hyde, one block south of where the Hyde cable car turned on to California. Or as I said, "one block north of The Tenderloin". Which nowadays seems a euphemism for The loin of dystopia.
@ryanward8039
@ryanward8039 17 күн бұрын
These cable cars are truly a piece of living history, a testament to the level of technical innovation and achievement we had as a united country.
@LJones-n8c
@LJones-n8c 11 күн бұрын
Great Job👏🏻👏🏻 San Francisco just wouldn't be San Francisco without the cable cars. They're such a joy to ride. I hope they played Tony Bennett's song, "I left my Heart in San Francisco "during the ceremony. 🤗👍🏻
@gregfeneis609
@gregfeneis609 16 күн бұрын
Awesome! I ride these cars every once in a while. As old fashioned as it seems when you ride these things. It's fun to imagine how advanced and amazing this technology must have seemed back when horses struggled to haul carriages up hills and things.
@pierrydesallesmello9502
@pierrydesallesmello9502 17 күн бұрын
Always reminds me Old 22 from Herbie rides again, my favorite!!❤
@cartermrc
@cartermrc 17 күн бұрын
Grew up there 1954-1975 and rode on them many times. They were fun!
@markw4263
@markw4263 2 жыл бұрын
Hey, lived in the Bay Area 25 years and took the cable cars a lot. Limited service area but a lot of fun. Better in the off months - jump off in front of Taddich Grill!
@Sunset4Semaphores
@Sunset4Semaphores 25 күн бұрын
Noted. Want to meetup there sometime? :P
@markwhite1333
@markwhite1333 17 күн бұрын
I lived in S F BAy Area for most of my life. I rode on Cable Cars when It cost only 25 cents per ride. Loved it. e.
@drlong08
@drlong08 8 күн бұрын
Great video and I'm glad as a design professional that they didn't gloss over the complications and delays. A very complicated restoration/ rehab project with a LOT of moving parts to it.
@philbro1829
@philbro1829 19 күн бұрын
Thanks for the thoughtful work your team has showcased 🎉
@macsloan58
@macsloan58 10 күн бұрын
Many of their cars are being rebuilt by Brookville Mining Corporation in Brookville, Pennsylvania. They used to ( and still do) build mining equipment and cars. They have tremendous expertise in restoration of these cars.
@luislaplume8261
@luislaplume8261 Жыл бұрын
All the cable cars have batteries underneath the car bodies for headlights and marker lights and interior lights.
@Sdedalus-m1f
@Sdedalus-m1f 22 күн бұрын
I worked on this project. At the end Dianne Finestein came down for the dedication. She got out of her limo, watched a Chinese dragon dance with five thousand firecrackers and went home.
@montanagetaway6175
@montanagetaway6175 21 күн бұрын
No surprise there.
@fjashfcsahds
@fjashfcsahds 18 күн бұрын
A Jewish mayor of Frisco isn´t something that as of now is likely to ever happen again with all the lefties having turned into antisemites.
@ElementofKindness
@ElementofKindness 13 күн бұрын
You could read the sentiment on the faces of the project workers at 20:36
@kevincreighton7225
@kevincreighton7225 10 күн бұрын
My dad did the new concrete rails in 1985. In time for Democratic convention
@youdandee1
@youdandee1 9 күн бұрын
Back when San Francisco was still a great place to live and visit .sadly not so much now
@8avexp
@8avexp 2 жыл бұрын
Supposedly the buses that substituted for the cable cars found the going tough on those hills.
@robertlannon
@robertlannon Жыл бұрын
They actually had Faegol busses with a second engine designed to kick in on the tougher hills, massive failure...
@seriouslyyoujest1771
@seriouslyyoujest1771 11 ай бұрын
I have a book from San Diego 1915 Panama Exhibition which shows San Diego’s Trolley’s. And I remember taking the Trolley to Coronado before the Coronado Bridge was built
@jlelliotton
@jlelliotton 21 күн бұрын
I lived on Van Ness near California in the late 1970s and worked at Montgomery and Market. I took the California car to work and back every day, the fare was 25 cents then.
@edwardlincoln5680
@edwardlincoln5680 17 күн бұрын
There is a souvenir shop at the cable car warehouse, I bought an old LINCOLN street sign $20, 1997
@normmcrae1140
@normmcrae1140 16 күн бұрын
I remember reading about this rebuild many years ago in Popular Mechanics!
@adalbertomoreno6500
@adalbertomoreno6500 Жыл бұрын
love the cable cars! will be using this info to make sure my H O scale cable cars are accurate!
@Sunset4Semaphores
@Sunset4Semaphores 25 күн бұрын
I remember this story. Before my time :)🎉❤
@guillermokittsteiner4226
@guillermokittsteiner4226 6 күн бұрын
Que bello es ver como en Europa, USA y otros pocos países preservar y respetan al Tranvía. Mientras en Chile, todo se elimina y destruye
@AndreasAndersson-ve4jx
@AndreasAndersson-ve4jx 20 күн бұрын
So they are mechanichal! Like a ski lift, but it is of course much easier to have the cables suspended. But a car is fixed to a specific line, like in a Ski liff? Just fabolous!
@intsccents
@intsccents 21 күн бұрын
Iconic... its that simple
@SniffyPoo
@SniffyPoo Жыл бұрын
PET personal computer at 8:40, noyce
@Subgunman
@Subgunman 16 күн бұрын
WOW talk about those old PET computers in that university at around 9:00 minute mark.
@fredflintstoner596
@fredflintstoner596 16 күн бұрын
"I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plains?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky ." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction ." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
@robertlafnear7034
@robertlafnear7034 14 күн бұрын
First thing years ago when I went to SanFran was ride the cable cars............... BRAVO or keeping them running well !!!...... now if San Fran can just clean up all the TRASH ... and start with the head man NEWSOM !
@michaelkeene588
@michaelkeene588 11 күн бұрын
"RICE -A- RONI a San Francisco treat!....AGAIN!
@fjashfcsahds
@fjashfcsahds 18 күн бұрын
Amazing achievement for a nation with only a fairly recent history.
@freetolook3727
@freetolook3727 16 күн бұрын
Hard to believe that was 40 years ago! 😂
@ElementofKindness
@ElementofKindness 13 күн бұрын
Hard to believe Dianne was still a career politician up until last year.
@rosstocher
@rosstocher 15 күн бұрын
Such dedication to heritage and civic pride, too bad the City Council and state leaders failing the proud citizens
@robertphillips6296
@robertphillips6296 17 күн бұрын
I remember when this happened.
@larrysorenson4789
@larrysorenson4789 17 күн бұрын
SF has been using rebuilt cable cars. Electric trollies and busses for thirty years
18 күн бұрын
Now in San Francisco you have to watch out for used drug needles, trash all over the streets and homeless people plus their excrement they leave behind. What a city.
@gtfg3800
@gtfg3800 18 күн бұрын
FYI; the "advanced" technique of thermite welding of steel tracks dates back to 1983 & was patented in Germany.
@ElementofKindness
@ElementofKindness 13 күн бұрын
I believe you meant 1893
@fredsons2241
@fredsons2241 18 күн бұрын
I don’t see anything wrong….nice job!
@electronicscaos
@electronicscaos 28 күн бұрын
I'm from São Paulo, very long ago we had cable cars. It was put out of work because of bureaucrats' decisions, always looking for take more money from the people.
@gregwilliams386
@gregwilliams386 16 күн бұрын
The MUNI gave a very early horse drawn car to the Western Railway Museum in Rio Vista Junction. They restored it then, the MUNI took it back. Typical San Francisco. That's the story I was told.
@The_DuMont_Network
@The_DuMont_Network 17 күн бұрын
Andrew Hallidie, not Halliday
@youtubasoarus
@youtubasoarus Ай бұрын
Sounds like this is narrated by William Shatner? Very interesting video.
@Sunset4Semaphores
@Sunset4Semaphores 25 күн бұрын
You're right! It probably is William Shatner!
@jaynecobb6711
@jaynecobb6711 19 күн бұрын
No. The narrator's name is Henry Leff, he is credited at the end of the documentary.
@youtubasoarus
@youtubasoarus 19 күн бұрын
@@jaynecobb6711 Thanks for clarifying. My mistake.
@jaynecobb6711
@jaynecobb6711 19 күн бұрын
@@youtubasoarus Merry Christmas!
@youtubasoarus
@youtubasoarus 19 күн бұрын
@@jaynecobb6711 Thanks and to you and your family as well! Much appreciated!
@rogerlollar4325
@rogerlollar4325 2 жыл бұрын
The little trolleys that could
@luislaplume8261
@luislaplume8261 Жыл бұрын
Trolleys have a pole with a bronze wheel that touches the copper wire above charged at 600 volts D.C.
@rogerlollar4325
@rogerlollar4325 Жыл бұрын
@@luislaplume8261 OK then the little streetcars that could
@mikehawk2003
@mikehawk2003 Жыл бұрын
@@rogerlollar4325 Streetcar is the West Coast synonym of Trolley
@rogerlollar4325
@rogerlollar4325 Жыл бұрын
@@mikehawk2003 the little cable cars that could
@mow4ncry
@mow4ncry 19 күн бұрын
Well actually thermite welding is not new technology it's been around do weld rails together for a very long time
@keithdavis773
@keithdavis773 13 күн бұрын
Dont we say "light rail" now?
@hsimpson6581
@hsimpson6581 15 күн бұрын
it is2024 they are now 40 years old
@richardrodgers7311
@richardrodgers7311 2 күн бұрын
Dianne Feinstein did the dedication in 1974? She was AND STILL IS in high major restoration herself. SHE LOOKS ANCIENT IN 1974! How ironic she now being wheeled around not in a cable car but in a wheelchair and needs someone to cast her votes for her in DC. On a side note, I might add, the final statement of the budget in the last 10 seconds being not met while everyone celebrates is typical for SF politics.
@simonf8902
@simonf8902 21 күн бұрын
Hallidie. Not Halliday.
@trivialinsignific
@trivialinsignific 15 күн бұрын
they had to beef up the cables and front of the cars to push the poo out of the way - now they need to find a way to remove all the pushed away poo instead of just letting people walk in it and then tracking it around all the businesses along the cable car poo pushing route
@NoName-zn1sb
@NoName-zn1sb 2 жыл бұрын
Thermite "advanced technique"
@trivialinsignific
@trivialinsignific 15 күн бұрын
i guess rice a roni stepped in to help with the poo removal , they are going to dump it in coit tower -
@JoeyLovesTrains
@JoeyLovesTrains 2 жыл бұрын
15:30 that was pretty difficult to listen to lol
@how_to_hallagon1
@how_to_hallagon1 19 күн бұрын
This was done at a time when California democrats cared about San Francisco. Sadly now those same Asians in the video are getting beat up on the streets and you'd have more graffiti and mentally ill homeless with hunting knives boarding those cable cars. The whole place is like the movie escape from new york.
@trivialinsignific
@trivialinsignific 15 күн бұрын
this just in ; almost every business along the cable car poo pushing route have gone out of business
@blakeclark5898
@blakeclark5898 13 күн бұрын
A lot of comments seem to be more about poo and needless rather than cable cars. Guess that’s what happens when you haven’t actually been to San Francisco but watch a lot of faux news😂
@Glenn-em3hv
@Glenn-em3hv 16 күн бұрын
How ignorant and sad that they would celebrate the closing of the trams???
@rogerlollar4325
@rogerlollar4325 2 жыл бұрын
That guy at 13:42 looks like Joseph stalin
@juslitor
@juslitor Ай бұрын
A navy seal before they were navy seals.
@Smartehhhh
@Smartehhhh Жыл бұрын
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@alexcarrillo5510
@alexcarrillo5510 Жыл бұрын
Huh, the date is August 2nd 1873 - Redo Video, and Correct it.. An SF Native...
@dh6140
@dh6140 8 күн бұрын
Poo poo 💩 everywhere
@christianmccollum1028
@christianmccollum1028 9 күн бұрын
Harry Chin?!! You've got to be kidding 😅😂😅 LMAO
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