Cable Car Museum

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  • Address
    1201 Mason St, Nob Hill
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  • Phone
    415 474 1887
  • Website
  • Transport
    cable car: Powell-Mason, Powell-Hyde

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Lonely Planet review

Grips, engines, braking mechanisms... If terms like these warm your gearhead heart, you will be completely besotted with the Cable Car Museum, housed in the city's still-functioning cable car barn. See three original 1870s cable cars and watch as cables glide over huge wheels - as awesome a feat of physics now as when the mechanism was invented by Andrew Hallidie in 1873.