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Queen Anne Counterbalance

#130 of 572 things to do in Seattle

#151 of 712 things to do in Pacific Northwest

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    • Queen Anne Ave N, north of W Roy St

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Lonely Planet review for Queen Anne Counterbalance

The streetcar that chugged up and down the steep grade along Queen Anne Ave started operating on overhead-wire electricity in 1900, but it still needed some help to manage the hill. So engineers designed a system of counterweights – a 16-ton train that ran in a tunnel beneath the street would go up when the cable car went down and vice versa. The cable cars were retired in 1943, but the underground tunnels are still there.

 

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