- published: 03 Oct 2009
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A cable car is any of a variety of transportation systems relying on cables to pull vehicles along or lower them at a steady rate, or a vehicle on these systems.
Aerial lifts where the vehicle is suspended in the air from a cable:
Varieties in which the vehicle rests on rails or a road:
The world's longest operable cableway is the Forsby-Köping limestone cableway in Sweden at 42 km (26 mi). The longest ever in operation was the 96 km (60 mi) Kristineberg-Boliden ropeway conveyor in Sweden. One of its 8 sections has been converted to a gondola lift and is still operating as the 13.2 km Norsjö aerial tramway making it the world's longest passenger cableway.
Also worth mentioning are Skyrail Rainforest Cableway, a gondola lift in Australia is 7.5 km long (two sections), and the Swiss Gondelbahn Grindelwald-Männlichen is 6.2 km long (two sections). The longest reversible aerial tramway built in one section only is Wings of Tatev in Armenia at 5.7 km (3.5 mi).
Cable car, flying high
Passing stars or wondering why
Did she go or did she die
I don't know
Mountainside, not so green
Snow is more than ever seen
Will she come back in a dream
I don't know
Thoughts of her reminding me
Of a time I couldn't see
Anything but you and me together
Colored cloud, on you go
To a land you may not know
If you see her
Tell her I'm so alone