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Shadowbrook Restaurant Hillavator Cable Car, Capitola, CA, USA (ani.social)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Kind of a weird way to say funicular

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Funicular means there's a counterbalance, usually a second car is used as a counterweight.

I have no idea how this particular system works, and there's only one car.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Ah yeah that's right. It's an inclined elevator for sure

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Lol.

You made me go read the article to find out more!

In 1957, the partners came up with the idea for a lift — customers had been asking for one for years — and hired Oakland’s Dwan Elevator Co. to install the red inclined “hillavator” that could carry six guests at a time 118 feet to the entrance.

So, yep, definitely an elevator. But even elevators use a counterweight, which in a Funicular is another car, and it's along an incline.

Hmm, so is there really a difference?