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  2. Herodium - Wikipedia

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    The area in a United Nations OCHA map of the West Bank; the Herodium national park is the diagonal hashed area shown west of Za'atara, east of the Jannatah checkpoint, and north of the Sdeh Bar Farm settlement. The Palestinian village of Al Orentellah is within the confines of the national park.

  3. San Francisco cable car system - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Andrew Smith Hallidie - Wikipedia

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    Andrew Smith Hallidie (March 16, 1836 – April 24, 1900) was an American entrepreneur who was the promoter of the Clay Street Hill Railroad in San Francisco. This was the world's first practical cable car system, and Hallidie is often therefore regarded as the inventor of the cable car and father of the present day San Francisco cable car system, although both claims are open to dispute.

  5. List of defunct San Francisco Municipal Railway lines

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    Previous service under the San Francisco and San Mateo Electric Railway only reached as far as Baden in South San Francisco. After being bought and sold several times, the line came under the ownership of the United Railroads of San Francisco, under whom it was finally built out to San Mateo with service starting on December 31, 1902. [50]

  6. California Street Cable Railroad - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Sharp stop to avoid crash injures six aboard cable car, San ...

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    San Francisco’s famed cable cars date to 1873, the museum said. Three killed in fiery crash after wrong-way driver slams into 2 cars, GA troopers say Grumpy elk rams Nissan at Canada national ...

  8. Clay Street Hill Railroad - Wikipedia

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    Clay St. Hill RR Co. No.8 at the San Francisco Cable Car Museum (2007) The Clay Street line started regular service on September 1, 1873, and was a financial success. In 1888, it was absorbed into the Sacramento-Clay line of the Ferries and Cliff House Railway, and it subsequently became a small part of the San Francisco cable car system. Today ...

  9. Friedel Klussmann - Wikipedia

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    The Friedel Klussmann Memorial Turnaround is the cable car terminus on Hyde Street near Fisherman's Wharf Friedel Klussmann (1896–1986) was a prominent member of San Francisco society. She is credited with leading the campaign that saved the San Francisco cable car system in the 1940s and 1950s, and the foundation of the San Francisco ...