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    San Francisco Cable Car

    created by 4567 on 2012.07.16

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    What has moved city-goers around San Francisco since the 1800's? What is one of the most iconic symbols of the famous American city? What is the subject of this project? Of course! The San Francisco Cable cars.

    With the earliest line operating since 1878, and the latest still operating today, the vehicles manage to be both historic and contemporary, while simultaneously acting as the illustrious transportation system unique to the city. You can show someone a picture of any of the rides, and they will instantly think of San Francisco.

    There are still a ton in active service, but currently, to stay cost effective, I will only propose a model of just one car. Specifically the one up top (Powell & Hyde). Stay strong if you don't want that one though, the identity can always change in review (or maybe a solution is in top secret development, who knows?). So anyway; hey, here it is.

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    So here's the model now. I made it slightly smaller for a tad more accuracy, it's now a tad too small to seat standard minifigures; but hey, at least they don't have to grip sword blades to get on. The rails are just plates on top of regular six wide tracks, so the model itself is compatible on any other 6-wide railway (this isn't technically possible in real life, but Lego encourages the use of imagination). Otherwise, yeah.

    Fun Fact: one of the reference pictures for this model is down below

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    This is what the Cable car looks like in some of the other active line color uniforms. Like any of these more?

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    In real life, Cable cars have advertisements attached to the sides of them. The ones pictured are for different San Francisco landmarks.

    (clockwise from top: Golden Gate Bridge, Painted Ladies, Alcatraz and Fisherman's Wharf)

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    If you go to San Francisco sometime, you will surely see some sliding down the streets.

    Want this to become an official set produced by lego? Well you're in luck! At the top of this project there is a economically sized green box labelled "support"; and once you click it, just enter how much money you think this project is worth (I'd say around $30), how many you would get (probably one), and any nice comments you have about the model (i'm sure you have a few ;) ). So if you like it, make sure to support!

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    Visit sfcablecar.com if you want to learn more about these famous trolleys.
    Image Credits:

    Alcatraz: http://www.alcatrazcruises.com/

    Fisherman's Wharf: http://mcmanuslab.ucsf.edu/SF

    Golden Gate Bridge: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/usa/san-francisco

    The Painted Ladies: http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/family/san-francisco-city-guide.htm

    Background for title image: http://www.datapointed.net/2009/11/the-steeps-of-san-francisco/

    Cable Car up above: http://sfmta.com
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