The cable cars that cascade down San Francisco’s steep hills are more than mobile icons. They are the culmination of years-long work where engineers, painters and carpenters join forces to keep ...

Every time Willa Johnson rolls out of San Francisco's cable car barn at the helm of one of the city's famous wooden ambassadors, she is in a sense history driving history. In the city's 150-year ...

Trini Whittaker, veteran conductor and grip operator on San Francisco's California Street cable-car line, sometimes welcomes passengers this way: "OK, the black guy doesn't die early in this movie ...

San Francisco's iconic cable cars will stop running for 10 days starting Friday while they undergo the final repairs in a three-year restoration project of the gearboxes that propel the world ...

San Francisco's newest cable car has its public premiere today, joining an elite transportation fleet known the world over. The unveiling marks the 25th anniversary - plus one day, for sticklers ...

Cresting over California street from a cable-car, The Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco is a halting structure to take in. Many buildings atop Nob Hill are striking, but there’s something dramatically ...

Cable car No. 53 took a special Valentine’s Day ride up Nob Hill in San Francisco on Wednesday morning, including a stop outside the Fairmont Hotel, where the car was officially dedicated to the ...

The cable car dedicated to the late Tony Bennett rolls past the landmark Fairmont hotel where the singer first performed the song that would forever tie him to San Francisco.

A cable car recently dedicated to the late Tony Bennett rolls past the Fairmont hotel where the singer in 1961 first performed the song that would forever tie him to San Francisco.

Carpenter John Barberini cleans a piece of metal while repairing cable car #23 at the Cable Car repair shop in the Dogpatch neighborhood, in San Francisco, California, on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016.