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Koenig's collection focused on a world-renowned collection of African works of art. Koenig was a board member of the German Association of Artists from 1961 to 1972. Fritz Koenig was also the recipient of numerous awards, including the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art and the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
California Street Cable Railroad car near Kearny Street, June 2022 Share of the California Street Cable Railroad Co., issued 9 July 1885. [1] The California Street Cable Railroad (Cal Cable) was a long-serving cable car operator in San Francisco, founded by Leland Stanford. The company's first line opened on California Street in 1878 and is the ...
The San Francisco cable car system is the world's last manually operated cable car system and an icon of the city of San Francisco.The system forms part of the intermodal urban transport network operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway, which also includes the separate E Embarcadero and F Market & Wharves heritage streetcar lines, and the Muni Metro modern light rail system.
The cable cars displayed include: [2] Sutter Street Railway - grip car 46 and trailer 54 dating from the 1870s; Clay Street Hill Railroad - grip car 8, the only surviving car from the first cable car company; The museum is part of the complex that also houses the cable car power house, which drives the cables, and the car depot ("barn").
Reconstruction work under way on the cable car tracks in San Francisco in 1983, here looking north on Hyde Street from Clay Street. Date: 1 July 1983: Source: Own work: Author: Steve Morgan (of Portland, Oregon) Permission (Reusing this file) See below; user must attribute the photographer on any reuse.
San Francisco's iconic cable cars were chiming their bells and rolling again on the city's hills Monday after being sidelined for 16 months by the pandemic. At Powell and Market, one of the cable ...
Early San Francisco cable car lines used two cars: a grip car (or "dummy") which contained the grip mechanism and a brake, and the trailer which carried passengers. [4] A new car, called a combination car, was eventually developed which combined the trailer and the grip car into one vehicle. The combination car had one enclosed end and an open ...
Overview; Locale: San Francisco, California: Transit type: cable cars: Operation; Began operation: February 16, 1880: Ended operation: May 5, 1912: Operator(s) Geary Street, Park & Ocean Railway (1880–1887), Market Street Railway (1887–1912), San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (1912–present)