When someone talks about Cable cars and an exiting ride in them it stays over and over again synonymous with San Francisco. These little cars fixed to a cable that runs up and down the Powell Street in the heart of San Francisco are truly one of the best tourist attractions ever. San Francisco is one of the most picturesque tourist places of the US however; cable cars are seen as a point that adds entertainment to the beauty of the place. Cable Cars in San Francisco are not just for tourists but also for the local people, they hop on them in a ways to avoid walking through the tough hilly areas that are above downtown. Though we often relate San Francisco to Cable Cars when we get to here about them, San Francisco was not the first place to run a Cable Car network.

The Blackwell Railway of London was the first organization to have the first ever Cable Car network with cable railroad in the year 1840. As the cable ropes that were used in the cable cars were found to be weak and unsafe, they were replaced by steam engines in the year 1848. After that a proper form of Cable Cars were used and operated in the year 1868 in New York, and then came the San Francisco Cable Cars in the year 1872 as a part of the Clay Street Hill Railroad in San Francisco.

You might have seen Cable Cars with wheels, if you had been thinking that it is a Cable Car, and then it means that you are mistaken, coz cable cars don’t have wheels and the ones with wheels are an imitation of Cable Cars. The main distinctive feature of Cable Car is the cable to which the car clings. The car is attached to the cable with the use of a grip. These Cable Cars are operated from a main power station where its speed and stations are calculated to be operated.

San Francisco tours are made memorable and enjoyable with these Cable Car trips around the place. The San Francisco Cable Cars are operated by a grip man, or a grip woman, they control speed and stopping of the Cable Car. Each car has also got a conductor in them to take fares as well as to make sure that the tourist are safe inside the vehicle while it is traveling around the place.

You can board the vehicle at Lombard, where you can enjoy a sharp downhill ride towards the end of the line close to Ghirardelli Square, the Maritime Museum as well as Fisherman's Wharf. The amusing vehicle climbs up across places like Union Square, Nob Hill and then turns to Jackson Street. If you love fun, you are then sure to have a great deal of fun with Cable Car trips at San Francisco.