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    Cable Car Museum

    Posted by UrbanShocker 21 July 2006

    The world's last surviving cable car powerhouse and carbarn (1887) houses a free cable car museum.
    In addition to historic cable cars (including an original 1873 cable car), displays, informational video and souvenirs, you can watch and hear the motors and sheave wheels moving the cables underneath the three remaining cable car lines of one of America's few moving National Historic Landmarks (1964).

    1201 Mason St (at Washington St), Nob Hill, San Francisco;
    tel: (415) 474 1887
    To get there ride Powell-Mason and Powell-Hyde cable cars to Washington and Mason car stop;
    www.cablecarmuseum.org

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