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Cable Cars sit idle at the historic Cable Car Barn and Powerhouse on June 3, 2014 in San Francisco, California.
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San Francisco's famous cable cars are once again carrying riders up and down the city's hills. 

The service was shut down for 10 days for a maintenance project. 


Workers rehabilitated the system's gearboxex.

This work was part of a larger project that several years ago began repairing the heavy equipment used by the cable cars

The gearboxes spin 30-foot tall wheels, which pull 12 miles of steel cable and lift the car across the network. 

The gearboxes have powered the cable car service since the 1890s.