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No. 1 - Visitors to the Cable Car Museum gallery can view and enjoy the sights
and sounds of 19th century transportation technology. On display is the machinery
that powers the cable car system's four (4) cables. Each cable has its own drive
machinery -- a 510-horsepower DC electric motor, gears to reduce the speed of
the motor to the proper cable speed of 9 1/2 miles per hour, and a set of three
large pulleys called sheaves (pronounced "shivs").