A cable car is a car hauled up a slope on a moving rope. Ride the cable car, the cable car station, a cable car over the valley.
The cars do not have engines at all, since the rope moves and they grip it, which is why the system is so efficient. San Francisco's are the last manually operated ones running anywhere in the world.
1nouncable carA car hauled up a slope on a moving rope.
“We took the cable car up the mountain and walked back down.”
cable car is a vehicle.
Practised in Vehicles & Machines, Railways