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Alcatraz Island
Alcatraz Island is located in San Francisco Bay, offshore from San Francisco, California, United States.
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American Public Transportation Association
The American Public Transportation Association (APTA), formerly known as the American Public Transit Association, is a nonprofit organization which serves as an advocate for the advancement of public transportation programs and initiatives in the United States.
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Andrew Smith Hallidie
Andrew Smith Hallidie (March 16, 1836 – April 24, 1900) was the promoter of the Clay Street Hill Railroad in San Francisco, USA.
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Bogie
A bogie (in some senses called a truck in North American English) is a chassis or framework carrying wheelsets, attached to a vehicle, thus serving as a modular subassembly of wheels and axles.
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Brake shoe
A brake shoe is the part of a braking system which carries the brake lining in the drum brakes used on automobiles, or the brake block in train brakes and bicycle brakes.
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Cable car (railway)
A cable car (cable tram elsewhere, apart from North America) is a type of cable transportation used for mass transit where rail cars are hauled by a continuously moving cable running at a constant speed.
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California Street (San Francisco)
California Street is a major thoroughfare in San Francisco, California.
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California Street Cable Railroad
The California Street Cable Railroad (Cal Cable) was a long-serving cable car operator in San Francisco, founded by Leland Stanford.
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Chinatown, San Francisco
The Chinatown centered on Grant Avenue and Stockton Street in San Francisco, California, is the oldest Chinatown in North America and the largest Chinese enclave outside Asia.
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CityPASS
CityPASS (formerly styled as "CityPass") is an American company that produces and sells discounted ticket packages to top tourist attractions in various North American metropolitan areas.
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Clay Street Hill Railroad
The Clay Street Hill Railroad was the first successful cable hauled street railway.
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Clipper card
The Clipper card is a reloadable contactless smart card used for electronic transit fare payment in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Clutch
A clutch is a mechanical device which engages and disengages power transmission especially from driving shaft to driven shaft.
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Dianne Feinstein
Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein (born Dianne Emiel Goldman, June 22, 1933) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from California, a seat she has held since 1992.
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Douglas fir
Pseudotsuga menziesii, commonly known as Douglas fir, Douglas-fir and Oregon pine, is an evergreen conifer species native to western North America.
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Embarcadero (San Francisco)
The Embarcadero is the eastern waterfront and roadway of the Port of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, along San Francisco Bay.
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F Market & Wharves
The F Market & Wharves line is one of several light rail lines in San Francisco, California.
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Financial District, San Francisco
The Financial District is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, that serves as its main central business district.
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Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco
Fisherman's Wharf is a neighborhood and popular tourist attraction in San Francisco, California.
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Friedel Klussmann
Friedel Klussmann (1896 – 1986) was a prominent member of San Francisco society.
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Funicular
A funicular is one of the modes of transport, along with a cable railway and an inclined elevator, which uses a cable traction for movement on a steep slope.
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Gavin Newsom
Gavin Christopher Newsom (born October 10, 1967) is an American businessman and politician serving as the 49th and current Lieutenant Governor of California, elected in 2010.
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Geary Street, Park and Ocean Railway
The Geary Street, Park and Ocean Railway was one of the first cable car operators in San Francisco.
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Golden Gate Bridge
The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean.
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Grade (slope)
The grade (also called slope, incline, gradient, mainfall, pitch or rise) of a physical feature, landform or constructed line refers to the tangent of the angle of that surface to the horizontal.
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Great Orme Tramway
The Great Orme Tramway (Tramffordd y Gogarth) is a cable-hauled gauge tramway in Llandudno in north Wales.
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Heritage railway
A heritage railway is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past.
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Ian Allan Publishing
Ian Allan Publishing is a UK publisher, established in 1942, which specialised in transport books.
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KTVU
KTVU, virtual channel 2 (UHF digital channel 44), is a Fox owned-and-operated television station licensed to Oakland, California, United States and serving the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Leland Stanford
Amasa Leland Stanford (March 9, 1824June 21, 1893) was an American tycoon, industrialist, politician, and the founder (with his wife, Jane) of Stanford University.
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Light Rail Transit Association
The Light Rail Transit Association (LRTA) is a non-profit organisation whose purpose is to advocate and encourage research into the retention and development of light rail and tramway/streetcar systems.
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Lombard Street (San Francisco)
Lombard Street is an east–west street in San Francisco, California that is famous for a steep, one-block section with eight hairpin turns.
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Market Street (San Francisco)
Market Street is a major thoroughfare in San Francisco, California.
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Market Street Railway (transit operator)
The Market Street Railway Company was a commercial streetcar and bus operator in San Francisco.
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Mobile device
A mobile device (or handheld computer) is a computing device small enough to hold and operate in the hand.
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Municipalization
Municipalization is the transfer of corporations or other assets to municipal ownership.
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Narrow-gauge railway
A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than the standard.
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National Park Service
The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.
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National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.
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Nob Hill, San Francisco
Nob Hill is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, centered on the intersection of California Street and Powell Street.
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Non-revenue track
Non-revenue track (or trackage), or a non-revenue route, is a section of track or transport route that is not used to carry passengers or revenue-earning freight or goods.
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North Beach, San Francisco
North Beach is a neighborhood in the northeast of San Francisco adjacent to Chinatown, the Financial District, and Russian Hill.
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Railway turntable
In rail terminology, a railway turntable or wheelhouse is a device for turning railway rolling stock, usually locomotives, so that they can be moved back in the direction from which they came.
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Referendum
A referendum (plural: referendums or referenda) is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is invited to vote on a particular proposal.
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Roger Lapham
Roger Dearborn Lapham (December 6, 1883 – April 16, 1966) was a shipowner and businessman who served as the 32nd mayor of San Francisco from 1944 to 1948.
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Russian Hill, San Francisco
Russian Hill is a neighborhood of San Francisco, California, in the United States.
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San Francisco
San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.
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San Francisco and San Mateo Electric Railway
The San Francisco and San Mateo Electric Railway (SF&SM) was the first electric streetcar company in San Francisco, California.
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San Francisco Cable Car Museum
The Cable Car Museum is a free museum in the Nob Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California.
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San Francisco Ferry Building
The San Francisco Ferry Building is a terminal for ferries that travel across the San Francisco Bay, a food hall and an office building.
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San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
The San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park is located in San Francisco, California, United States.
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San Francisco Municipal Railway
The San Francisco Municipal Railway (SF Muni or Muni) is the public transit system for the city and county of San Francisco, California.
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San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA or San Francisco MTA) is an agency created by consolidation of the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni), the Department of Parking and Traffic (DPT), and the Taxicab Commission.
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San Francisco Railway Museum
The San Francisco Railway Museum is a local railway museum located in the South of Market area of San Francisco.
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Sisal
Sisal, with the botanical name Agave sisalana, is a species of Agave native to southern Mexico but widely cultivated and naturalized in many other countries.
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Southern Pacific Transportation Company
The Southern Pacific (or Espee from the railroad initials- SP) was an American Class I railroad network that existed from 1865 to 1998 that operated in the Western United States.
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Street running
On-street running or street running is the routing of a railroad track or tramway track running directly along public streets, without any grade separation.
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Sutter Street Railway
The Sutter Street Railway was originally a horsecar line in San Francisco.
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Tractor
A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver at a high tractive effort (or torque) at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery used in agriculture or construction.
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Tram
A tram (also tramcar; and in North America streetcar, trolley or trolley car) is a rail vehicle which runs on tramway tracks along public urban streets, and also sometimes on a segregated right of way.
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Tramways & Urban Transit
Tramways & Urban Transit (TAUT or T&UT), also known as Modern Tramway, is a British monthly magazine about tramways and light rail transport, published continuously since 1938.
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Trolleybus
A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tram Joyce, J.; King, J. S.; and Newman, A. G. (1986). British Trolleybus Systems, pp. 9, 12. London: Ian Allan Publishing.. or trolleyDunbar, Charles S. (1967). Buses, Trolleys & Trams. Paul Hamlyn Ltd. (UK). Republished 2004 with or 9780753709702.) is an electric bus that draws power from overhead wires (generally suspended from roadside posts) using spring-loaded trolley poles.
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Union Square, San Francisco
Union Square is a public plaza bordered by Geary, Powell, Post and Stockton Streets in downtown San Francisco, California.
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United States Department of Transportation
The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT or DOT) is a federal Cabinet department of the U.S. government concerned with transportation.
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Wellington Cable Car
The Wellington Cable Car is a funicular railway in Wellington, New Zealand, between Lambton Quay, the main shopping street, and Kelburn, a suburb in the hills overlooking the central city, rising over a length of.
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William Eppelsheimer
William Eppelsheimer (January 26, 1842– June 9, 1920) was a tramway engineer known for his work on cable car systems.
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1906 San Francisco earthquake
The 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck the coast of Northern California at 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18 with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme).
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1984 Democratic National Convention
The 1984 National Convention of the U.S. Democratic Party was held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California from July 16 to July 19, 1984, to select candidates for the 1984 United States presidential election.
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49-Mile Scenic Drive
The 49-Mile Scenic Drive is a designated scenic road tour highlighting much of San Francisco, California.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_cable_car_system
