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  1. Drone footage shows Mount Etna’s cable car above a volcanic landscape.

    Sicily’s Etna cable car carries visitors up Europe’s active volcano while engineers manage risks from eruptions, gases and harsh conditions.

    mediafaro.org/article/20260729

    #Etna #Volcano #Sicily #CableCar #Italy

  2. As an aside, years ago I wrote a novella about a SF tech company attempting to build a virtual cable car ride. The coders are haunted by the most bizarre software bug you can imagine—a slumped man who appears in millions of tourist cable car photos, his face always obscured.

    The book was made into an audio tour of the cable cars. It even got me a quick tour of the cable car engine control room, which was very cool.

    j-nelson.net/everywhere-man/

    #Bookstodon #SanFrancisco #CableCar #Fiction

  3. 🌅 Das warme, sonnige Wetter zieht viele Stadtzürcher*innen an den See. Früher konnte man dort nicht nur baden, sondern sogar mit Seilbahnen über den See und entlang des Ufers fahren.

    🚠 Mehr zu diesen historischen Zürichsee-Seilbahnen - und zu einer gescheiterten Neuauflage - finden Sie im neuesten Zürich-Beitrag auf unserer Webseite: t.zbzuerich.ch/seilbahn

    📷 Bild: Plan der Seilbahn für die Landi 1939, damals die längste Seilbahn der Welt. ZB Zürich.

    #history #zurich #exhibition #cablecar

  4. Remains of the old Soviet-era cable car system in Chiatura, Georgia. The tiny rickety gondolas were nicknamed "flying coffins", can you guess why? 😬

    While many have now been renovated, a few still dangle abandoned.

    #History #Photography #Chiatura #Soviet #CableCar #Transport #Abandoned

  5. Have tarjeta, will travel! Absolutely fantastic #PublicTransport cablebus option here in #CDMX
    And some incredible and colourful views of the expanse of the city on a lovely sunny day! (Not too hot yet). On Cablebus Linea 2

    #DasMX26 #CableCar

  6. CW: Queenstown cable car fast-tracked

    Rod Drury's ambitious cable car project has been accepted for the fast-track process by Shane Jones. I thought it was meant to whiz tourists into town, eliminating the need for rental cars? This line suggests otherwise.

    "It is expected that the Queenstown Cable car would take up to 3000 passengers an hour each way and be located only 20 minutes’ drive from the airport."

    What? The company's map even shows an "Airport Station". How can that be a 20 minute drive from the airport? Who is planning this stuff?

    archive.ph/HP6KN

    #Queenstown #NZ #CableCar

    Ref: queenstowncablecar.com/

  7. From happier times travelling in the USA. Love the sound of the cables being hauled constantly beneath the street.
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    Video of the Week: Cable Car Passing patreon.com/posts/video-of-wee

    #SanFrancisco #SF #tram #trams #CableCar

  8. Chiatura, Georgia, is home to a historically fascinating old cable car network. A remarkable and rusty relic of the Soviet era.

    Built to connect the steep mining town to the surrounding manganese-rich hillsides. These steel cabins once carried miners, residents and ore across the mountains.

    obsidianurbexphotography.com/i

    #History #CableCar #Soviet #Abandoned #Rust #Photography #Explore #Travel

  9. Seems urban cable 🚡 cars are more popular than I thought 🤔. Pretty neat.
    #cablecar #UrbanMobility