LISBON, Sept 3 (Reuters) - At least 15 people died and 18 were injured on Wednesday when Lisbon's Gloria funicular railway car, which is popular with tourists and is one of the city's symbols, ...

Seventy-five years ago, San Francisco’s cable cars were viewed as more of a costly nuisance. A few city leaders wanted to tear out the 1870s-era transit system of wooden vehicles towed by an ...

SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Yonhap) -- One South Korean woman was among the injured in a deadly cable car crash on the railway in Lisbon on Wednesday (local time), a foreign ministry official in Seoul confirmed.

In August 1873, San Francisco tested a new cable railway system designed to operate on streets where horses struggled with steep grades. Andrew Smith Hallidie tested the first cable car on Clay Street ...

In the late 19th century, Chicago had the largest cable car network in the nation. In the late 19th century, Chicago had the largest cable car network in the nation, with some 3,000 cable cars and 80 ...