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Designated historic landmarks by the National Park Service in 1964, the beloved cable cars clank across the hills like mobile museum pieces. Each weighs about 6 tons and is hauled by a cable under the street in a center rail. They move at a constant 91 2 mph never more, never less. This may strike you as slow, but it doesn t feel that way when you re cresting an almost perpendicular hill and looking down at what seems like a bobsled dive into the ocean. But in spite of the thrills, they re perfectly safe.

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