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Cable car   (translated from French)
Cable car Cable car of Zell amndt See in the Austrian Alps. One cable car (or teleferic) is a system ...
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Talk:Cable car (railway)
Talk:Cable car (railway) Article read: Cable cars take many different forms, the only attribute in common is the cable that pulls the vehicles. I disagree with ... two, different, but quite specific, definitions of "cable car". One is a cabin suspended ...
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Conduit car
Conduit car A conduit car was an electric streetcar (tram) that drew ... an underground third rail. Description The power rails for conduit cars are contained in a vault between and underneath the running rails, much in the same fashion as the cable for cable cars. The vault contains ...
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cable tram   (translated from Dutch)
cable tram ' cable car ' in San Francisco cable tram a tram is which on rails moves on, moved on by a ...
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabeltram - 12k - Cached (Dutch) - Wikipedia (Dutch) - Similar pages

cable train   (translated from Dutch)
cable train Kabelspoorweg in building at shovel cable train is train that concerning a steep job by a cable is moved on. He can be considered ... diagonal lift . In English and French the cable train becomes respectively funicular and funiculaire called. This cable drawn system becomes also people mover ...
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Tram
... track reserved for the tram system. A cable car is a special type of tram. Tram ... 1834 in New Orleans. At first the rails protruded above street level, causing accidents and ... They were supplanted in 1852 by grooved rails or girder rails, invented by Alphonse Loubat. The first ...
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Talk:Streetcar
... Sep 2004 (UTC) they're "hidden" in rails. It's explained here : http://fr.wikipedia ... with trains. These trains have 1435 mm rails, and their railway nets are connected with ... has often been attributed to the larger car manufacturers buying out the tram operators and ... street cars (electric) and the world famous cable cars (pulled). The second statement, about car manufacturers, should be clarified. Since tracks ...
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Talk:List of suburban and commuter rail systems
... rail cars operating singly or in multi-car trains on fixed rails; separate rights-of-way from which all ... operating singly (or in short, usually two-car, trains) on fixed rails in right-of-way that is not ... is an electric railway (single or multi-car trains) of guided transit vehicles operating ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_suburban_and_commuter_rail_systems - 25k - Cached - Similar pages

Nottingham Corporation Tramways
... a deputation from Nottingham Corporation visited the cable-operated tramway system at Edinburgh and the ... County Council Tramways. A further investigation into car design, the type of traction to be ... relaying of the Carrington route with heavier rails (107 lb. to the yard girder rails laid on 6 inches of concrete) and ... and alternate Sundays off duty, and electric car drivers received 5½d. per hour for ...
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San Francisco Municipal Railway
... can be found at many bus and car stops. Bus and car stops throughout the city vary from Metro car stations with raised platforms in the subway ... are valid on all Muni lines, including cable cars, as well as on BART rides ... are valid on all Muni lines, including cable cars, but not on BART. Cable ...
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