Cable cars are hella fun to ride and represent an important part of transport history. Of course they were immediately replaced with electric traction post 1888 but that is not so much a knock on cable hauled as a recognition of how great an invention electric railways were. I mean they are still here despite the visceral hatred of the internal combustion highway lobby and late-comer gadgetbahns of the Muskloop variety. BART-Bechtel promised vactrains but all they could muster was a botched iteration of a ca. 1900 NYC subway and it still runs. And they demand mo' money to build mo' IBG.

But I was surprised by the OAC and cable hauled as still acceptable contemporary tech.

Still does anybody know how they got those long Sacramento St. cable cars out of Washington & Mason carhouse and onto the Sacramento St. line? I am guessing via Powell St. but I wonder if directions were reversed from today. In a way it is kinda dumb as Sacramento Street should maybe be downhill. Remember how those Macks and GMC New Look buses on the #55 would just grind up that hill smoking up the place?!