It seems whenever a special cable car comes rolling out of San Francisco's cable car barn or turns up at a special civic event, chances are it's cable car gripman Valentine Lupiz at the stick. In his ...

Since Andrew Smith Hallidie introduced Cable Cars in 1873, San Francisco's cable car lines changed the landscape of San Francisco, making hilly neighborhoods accessible. The cable cars survived the ...

After finishing dinner at a lovely Russian Hill restaurant called Collina on a recent summer evening, a reporter and her friend decided to hop on the Powell-Hyde cable car at the corner of Pacific ...

Editor’s Note: As the calendar slows down ahead of the New Year, The Examiner highlights some of the best “Dead Week” activities for readers at the end of December. You can read all of our stories ...

There's a new look these days at California and Market streets in San Francisco, the downtown terminal of the world's oldest operating cable car line. Though the California Street line has been ...