On Aug 27, 1:54 pm, D7666 wrote:
On Aug 26, 12:22 pm, Tom Anderson wrote:
But surely even then the schebebahn runs *along* the course of the
river but cablecars tend to go across things ?
Cablecars tend to go *up* things. Are there any that are built in the
complete absence of a steep slope?
Not necessarily up things - there is a cable car transit in new York
that goes acorss something.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Island_Tramway
I don't like quoting wiki-piffle though but it does explain it.
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Nick
Cached pages caught up, sorry, I see the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Island_Tramway
was already quoted in intermediate messages that were not apparent 2
minutes ago.
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Nick