2002-11-23 04:00:00 PDT San Francisco ... The shutdown allowed Muni to replace the wooden turntable that allows drivers to spin a cable car from a southbound direction to northbound.

Busiest cable car is the Powell Street line, starting on a turntable where Powell joins Market Street, San Francisco’s “main stem.” Passengers scurry for seats while the gripman and ...

Silent film star Buster Keaton’s 1922 reel "Daydreams" depicts the star riding a cable car around the turntable at Bay Street ... brain injury that rendered 23-year-old rider Gloria Sykes ...

At Powell and Market, one of the stops, a line of people snaked around a cable car turntable waiting to ride a car to Ghirardelli Square or Fisherman’s Wharf. “Our cable cars are part of what ...

Afterward, we caught what I believe was the last cable car trip of the day, back to our hotel. We watched the crew turn the car on the miniature turntable and then climbed aboard. When the ...