SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- In an unassuming bronze building in San Francisco Dogpatch neighborhood is the SFMTA cable car carpentry shop. "They survived earthquakes. They survived fires. They survived ...

Today cable cars are only a small part of San Francisco’s transit system, ... In 1936 it made a comfortable net profit of $277,173. More Must-Reads from TIME.

150 years ago this month, the first cable car made its way down a San Francisco street with its inventor, Andrew Hallidie, at the controls. Andrew Hallidie returned to San Francisco in 1857, ...