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@vxo the sound probably makes the uninitiated anxious.

@vxo
Oh man I would love to hear shrieking elevator cables! You just made me smile at the thought of that.

AAAAAAaaaaaaaaa......

@EricMartin The museum is very welcoming to photographers.

Also, lining the wall on the way to their bathrooms, they have a terrific set of street photos from the 1906 earthquake.

@knowprose
Oh thank God they made that change *chuckles*

@briansullivan Absolutely. When I take visitors on walking tours around town, we start at one of the cable car terminuses and ride up to the top of Nob Hill... then walk down Mason towards Chinatown and head straight to the cable car barn.

@knowprose Yes, it is magical in there. The overwhelming smell of WD-40 or some oily equivalent hits you in the head the moment you walk in the door. The structure itself, largely rebuilt after the 1906 earthquake, still feels like something you would find in Edison's Menlo Park campus in New Jersey.

Andrew Hallidie was a 19th century mechanical genius.

Bonus picture for today. This is the cable car barn/powerhouse... where just four 510 horsepower motors and gears pull miles of heavy cables underneath city streets, yanking 40 cable cars up and down the hills of San Francisco.

I love this place. The machinery is fascinating, the cables sing, and the smell of machine oil is intoxicating.

#photography

@Trilobyter That squirrel really likes shoulder day at the gym.

Add: nice capture!