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Reply to "Trains, Trolleys, and Diners: The real story"

I have been reading my book on cable cars. Very interesting read on how fast they designed, built and ran the systems. Each system, about 60, were custom built but the industry, as a whole, didn't last long.  A bunch made money while they lasted. Construction of the track & cars was relatively light weight. Most cars were too light to convert to trolleys. The advantages were they didn't discharge about 10 lbs of manure and gallons of manure on to the city streets each day and using the cable for power they could go up steep hills that  trolleys and trains couldn't.  The 7 or 8 years of their existence were full of patent law suits.

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