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Cable cars were invented by Andrew Smith Hallidie here in San
Francisco in 1873. Hallidie's cable car system was based on early
mining conveyance systems and dominated the city’s transit scene
for more than 30 years. Hallidie's cable car system would survive
the great San Francisco earthquake and fires of 1906, soldier on
through two World Wars and outlast political attempts to remove the
cars from city steets in the late 1940s and 1950s to become
the worldwide symbol of San Francisco that it is today.
Birth of the Cable Car

Andrew Smith Hallidie tested the first

cable car at 4 o'clock in the morning,
August 2, 1873, on San Francisco's
Clay Street. His idea for a steam
engine-powered, cable driven rail
system was conceived in 1869, after
witnessing horses being whipped
while they struggled on the wet
cobblestones to pull a horsecar up
Jackson Street.
Hallidie's father was an inventor who had a patent in Great Britain
for "wire rope" cable. Hallidie immigrated to the U.S. in 1852
during the Gold Rush. He began using cable in a system he had
developed to haul ore from mines and in building suspension
bridges.
Hallidie entered into a partnership to form the Clay Street Hill
Railroad, which began construction of a cable line on Clay Street
in May of 1873. The contract to operate on city streets stated the
line must be operational by August 1. It was launched on the
August 2. Even though they were a day late the cable car trials
received great approval. Clay Street Hill Railroad began public
service on September 1, 1873. It was a tremendous success.
The “CabriO” cable car located in Stanserhorn, Switzerland, is the
world’s first (and only) cable car featuring a roofless upper deck. The
cable car hosts some of the world's most impressive technology, able to
carry 60 people in one trip while escalating 2,320 meters, rising 1139 m
in altitude.

The cable car has a conveying capacity of 465 guests per hour, reaching
a top speed of 8 meters per second. A massive 465 kW motor powers
the cables which pull the car up two other supporting cables.
The construction of the cable car required special
consideration into how the machine will function. The
massive 5-meter wide car carries up to a maximum
capacity of 16,500 kg. In order to sustain that weight, the
car rolls along two 66 mm steel weighing 3.53 kg per
meter. Because the supporting guide wires are incredibly
heavy and difficult to wind, the car uses alternate cables
to pull it up the mountain. The journey will take you about
6 and a half minute
This post takes you back to
back almost a century. In 1922,
this Ropeway Cable Car was
built during the Chandra
Samsher reign, which was about
22 km. It was further extended
to 42 km, through the route
(Hetauda-Dhorsing-Chisapani-
Chandragiri-Kathmandu, source:
ropeway cable car pvt ltd).
It was a wonderful and a dream project to
develop Kathmandu city by bringing
construction materials and other materials
from the Terai regions. Later, with the
development of road construction, it has
become useless thing. Such a technology
was already implemented about a hundred
years ago, which can be still a great idea in
the hilly region.
Now there are 2 popular cable car services in Nepal. Manakamana cable car
and Chandragiri cable car. In some places, there have been some survey and
plannings going on to set it.
The Manakamana Cable Car

The Manakamana Cable Car is

a gondola lift transportation
system located
in Chitwan, Nepal. Opened on
November 24, 1998, the
Manakamana Cable Car runs
between
Cheres, Chitwan and Manakama
na, Gorkha.[1] The 2,772.2 m
(9,095 ft) line has two stations.
The cable car system was
imported from Austria
Chandragiri Cable Car:
Chandragiri Cable Car is a
gondola lift transportation system
located in Chandragiri
Municipality, Nepal. Opened on
2016, the Chandragiri Cable Car
runs from Thankot to
Chandragiri hills. The 2.4 km
(9,095 ft) line has two stations.
The cable car system consists of
38 gondolas that can carry 1,000
people per hour.