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Worked. they show you cable cars are weird and they show you the gee wiz ancient technology and it stuck with me for approximately 40 years now how cable cars stop. turns out, and i remember this from being in like freaking kindergarten when i did this tour with my parents. it turns outs there are three different ways that they brake a cable car and slow it down. the first way is that the conductor guy or whatever they call him has a pedal and that person uses that pedal to brake the way that a car brakes. it is like a steel shoe that presses against the cable car wheel. and that is the first way they try to brake the cable car. so steel shoe against the wheel and it slows down. if that doesn t work, san francisco is very hilly, if that is not enough and they need to go to the second tier level of braking, instead of the pedal, they could pull up on this big track brake and that brings ....

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