SF cable cars celebrate 150 years: Why brakes are still made out of wood

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To honor their history this year, San Francisco is celebrating 150 years of cable cars and opening the doors of the carpentry shop to the public.

In an unassuming bronze building in San Francisco Dogpatch neighborhood is the SFMTA cable car carpentry shop.

"They survived earthquakes. They survived fires. They survived depression," said Rick Laubscher, president of the Market Street Railway.Every piece is built by hand and assembled by SFMTA carpenters, who some may call historians."This car right here was brought in about a year and a half ago. Getting pretty close as you can see. Here we are at 2023.

 

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