循环式地面缆车

循環式纜車是一種地面缆车，车厢通過挂接持續移動的鋼纜而以固定的速度運行。車輛可通過抱索器与牵引索挂接或脱开的方式起動和停車。循環式纜車與往复式缆车不同，往复式缆车的抱索器是永久挂接於鋼纜上的。

现存系统

參考資料 

 Hilton, George W. (1982). The Cable Car in America (Revised Edition). San Diego, California: Howell–North Books. Reprinted 1997 by Stanford University Press. .
 Of Cables and Grips: The Cable Cars of San Francisco, by Robert Callwell and Walter Rice, published by Friends of the Cable Car Museum, first edition, 2000.
 Chicago Cable Cars, by Greg Borzo, published by The History Press (2012),

外部連結 

参考网站
 Cable Car Museum 
 Cable Car Guy 
 a scripophily based article re. the San Francisco Cal Cable and the Swiss Borel Bankers (in German) 
 The Cable Building (New York City) Broadway Cable car line.
 How Cable Cars Operate  San Francisco Cable Car Museum
 San Francisco Cable Car Movie from 1905 

相关专利
 —Railroad track
 —Endless wire ropeway

 
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