Cable Car in a sentence

Cable car system Red line cable car connecting La Paz and El Alto main A system of urban transit aerial cable cars called Mi Teleférico ("My Cable Car") was opened in 2014.

Even with a cable car traveling at only 9 miles per hour, the mass of the cable car and the combined strength and speed of the cable can do quite a lot of damage in a collision.

As many early cable car operators discovered the hard way, if the grip is not applied properly, it can damage the cable, or even worse, become entangled in the cable.

In the latter case, the cable car may not be able to stop and can wreak havoc along its route until the cable house realizes the mishap and halts the cable.

This line had both a continuous loop haulage cable that the cars gripped using a cable car gripper, and a balance cable permanently attached to both cars over an undriven pulley at the top of the line.

On Nob Hill, the Cable Car Museum is a working museum featuring the cable car power house, which drives the cables. citation Sports AT&T Park opened in 2000.

The success of these grips ensured that this line became the model for other cable car transit systems, and this model is often known as the Hallidie Cable Car.

Though some new cable car systems were still being built, by 1890 the cheaper to construct and simpler to operate electrically -powered trolley or tram started to become the norm, and eventually started to replace existing cable car systems.

Wankbahn 1930s poster advertising the newly opened Wankbahn cable car The Wank is linked to Garmisch-Partenkirchen by a cable car system called the Wankbahn, which usually operates between May and September during daylight hours.

A cable car cannot climb as steep a grade as a funicular, but many more cars can be operated with a single cable, making it more flexible, and allowing a higher capacity.

The city has two aerial cable cars : the Montjuïc Cable Car (to the Montjuïc castle) and the Port Vell Aerial Tramway that runs via Torre Jaume I and Torre Sant Sebastià over the port.

This gripping and ungripping action may be manual, as was the case in all early cable car systems, or automatic, as is the case in some recent cable operated people mover type systems.

A cable car overlooks the Muong Hoa Valley.

A schoolchild saved from a stranded cable car hanging hundreds of feet above a mountain valley in said he thought he was ‘going to die’.

Ata Ullah, another rescued student, told reporters that he would steel himself for the next time he has to board a cable car.

Before the cable car, stop off at the Gardenia restaurant and enjoy the panoramic view across the miles-long Cleopatra Beach while enjoying a meal or just a drink.

Communities have strung up scores of cable car systems through the mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of steep hills plunging into valleys.

From Garmisch, you can ascend approximately 2,600 feet to the top of Zugspitze by cable car, where you can follow adventurous hiking trials and experience a real glacier up close.

Gul Faraz, right, and Rizwan Ullah, survivors of cable car incident, talk to members of media, near the incident site, in Pashto village, a mountainous area of Battagram district in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Home to the majestic Table Mountain, it's an ideal location for intrepid explorers who want to take on the various beautiful hiking trails - or if you're not keen on the climb, then the cable car that takes you straight to the top might appeal.