Cable Car Museum

We rode the cable car to - what else - the Cable Car Museum.

The museum is actually housed at the Power Station, where the machinery actual powers all four line across the city as pictured below.

We learned that the cables run continuously under the streets and are then distributed by sheaves, or smaller wheels with grooves.

The cable cars move when the Gripman uses the machinery on the vehicle to "grip" the moving underground cable, which then pulls along the cable car until the gripman releases the cable.

There were also displays of retired cable cars from over the years.