This is the inside of a cable car in San Francisco. If you take a closer look, then you will find that there has been effort taken to make the look feel old, heritage like.
There is a lot of wood used in the making of the cable car, and it shows. As you can also see, it is fairly crowded, with a mixture of tourists and denizens of the city.
I like this photo a lot. It shows a sloping view of the San Francisco towards Fisherman's Wharf, from the perspective of somebody on the cable car leaving Fisherman's Wharf and climbing a hilly road.
You also get a long distance view of the harbour, and of Alcatraz, The Rock. It is the island, right in the middle of the Harbour.
If you look at this photograph in full view by clicking on it, you will see some idea of the ups and highs of the streets of the San Francisco. San Francisco is a strange place, going up and down. If you look closely at the wheels of the cars, you will see that all the wheels are turned inwards. Due to the sloping nature of the roads, all parked cars have to have their wheels turned inwards so that even if they start to move down for some reason, they will turn into the curb.
This is one end of the San Francisco cable car system, Union Square. Here, this wooden structure is a part of a heritage system. The cable car comes to the tracks on the round wooden platform, and then the wooden round platform is turned so that the cable car points back the way it came. Interesting to watch, especially for tourists.
I simply love the cable car system run in San Francisco. This is a heritage line, the world's last manually-operated cable car system (refer Wikipedia). The line mostly runs from Union Square to Fisherman's wharf, and if you have not taken a ride in this before, you should certainly do so. They are not very fast, but are an excellent tourist attraction. Riding in them, you get a very good idea of the steep slopes of San Francisco's roads, and it is a different sort of pleasure riding on the steps of an open tram that is just going uphill or downhill on a steep road (if you refer the second photo).
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