An elevated power cable from the mainland to Arapawa Island over Tory Channel was struck by an Air Albatross Cessna 402 commuter aircraft in 1985.

The cable technology used in this elevated railway involved collar-equipped cables and claw-equipped cars, and proved cumbersome.

It would have been an elevated cable metro system that would glide above the city's river.

An elevated passenger ropeway, or chairlift, is a type of aerial lift, which consists of a continuously circulating steel cable loop strung between two end terminals and usually over intermediate towers, carrying a series of chairs.

Some bi and tri cable elevated ropeways and reversible tramways achieve much greater operating speeds.

* In 1896, a short northerly elevated extension of the Brighton Line ( since reorganized as the Brooklyn & Brighton Beach Railroad ) to the corner of Franklin Avenue and Fulton Street allowed rapid transit trains of the Fulton Street Line of the Kings County Elevated Railroad to operate from the Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn Bridge to Brighton Beach, where a walking or cable car service connection over the bridge allowed access to New York City Hall at Park Row.

Many cables were necessary to connect all the components, and methods to accommodate and organize these were devised, such as standard racks to mount equipment, elevated floors, and cable trays ( installed overhead or under the elevated floor ).

The first elevated line was constructed in 1867-70 by Charles Harvey and his West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway company along Greenwich Street and Ninth Avenue ( although cable cars were the initial mode of transportation on that railway ).

The elevated side walkway had to be renewed over a length of 750 feet ( 230 m ), and the cable ducts cast into the walkway and walls were replaced over 300 feet ( 90 m ).

Suspension railway is a form of elevated monorail where the vehicle is suspended from a fixed track ( as opposed to a cable used in aerial tramways ), which is built above street level, over a river or canal, or an existing railway track.

He also served as director for the American cable company, the Western Union telegraph company, and the Manhattan consolidated system of elevated railroads in New York City.

** Detailed history of Charles Yerkes ' involvement in the Chicago elevated railways and street car system

This car featured an elevated roof over the rear seat and cargo area and glass skylights over the rear seating area, which consisted of a transverse skylight over the second seat ( two-piece from 1964 to 1967, one-piece from 1968 to 1972 ) and small longitudinal skylights directly over the rear cargo-area windows, and also featured standard second-row sunvisors.

Nicoli attempts to assassinate Doyle, but botches the job, leading to a car chase scene that culminates with Nicoli's hijacking an elevated train.

Curtice guided Buick through the war years and by the time he was elevated to a GM vice presidency, he had made Buick the fourth best selling car line.

" It can be visited by car from the Belt Parkway ( exits 8 and 9 ), or by subway, from the Sheepshead Bay Station of the B / Q elevated subway line.

A 2600 series ( Chicago ' L ') | 2600 series car brings up the rear of a Red Line train ( temporarily rerouted through the Chicago ' L ' | elevated tracks of the Chicago Loop ) at Randolph / Wabash ( CTA station ) | Randolph / Wabash.

It was elevated with two platforms, each capable of accommodating a single car train.

* Two elevated car parks with total capacity of 400 vehicles,

The stations themselves are connected to the International and Domestic terminals by a series of elevated pedestrian walkways over a car park.

The original South Quay station opened in 1987, and was a standard DLR phase 1 elevated station, subsequently extended to permit the use of 2 car trains.

The primary distinguishing feature of BU cars is that they were elevated cars built mostly or substantially of wood, with or without steel frames, where passenger access to the cars was provided by open platforms at both ends of each car.

Every night, I would drive home along the Westway elevated road and listen on my car tape player to what we'd done that day.

Driving a BMW 320i at Bathurst with brother Geoff, the pair were flagged in 2nd but were elevated to the win soon after the finish when their BMW Motorsport Australia team mates Paul Morris and Craig Baird were disqualified, the team making an error at the last pit stop by not doing a driver change and leaving Baird in the car for the run home, not realising that he would exceed his allowed driving time before the race ended.

During the 1995 – 96 season he was elevated to the role of club captain but, in January 1996, he was in a car crash that initially seemed to only leave him with a bruised ankle but later revealed an injured knee and back issues.

The stadium is designed so that the main entrance to the stadium would be from an elevated esplanade separated from the parking space consisting of Europe ’ s biggest underground car park.

Working to modify and improve the novice team's March 731 chassis, Postlethwaite elevated the team into serious contention and the following year designed the team's car from scratch.

The Bluebird, formally dubbed Compartment Car by its purchaser, the Brooklyn – Manhattan Transit Corporation ( BMT ), was an advanced design PCC subway and elevated railway car used on the New York City Subway system from 1939 to 1957.

A 2600 series ( Chicago ' L ') | 2600 series car brings up the rear of a Red Line ( Chicago Transit Authority ) | Red Line train ( temporarily rerouted through the Chicago ' L ' | elevated tracks of the The Loop ( CTA ) | Chicago Loop ) at Randolph / Wabash ( CTA ) | Randolph / Wabash.

* Bumble Bee: Opened in 2005, this brightly coloured children's ride allows parents and children to sit in a car together a be elevated and spun around.

The Virage was a large, heavy car in spite of its all-aluminium body, but the 32-valve 5. 3 L ( 5, 340 cc ) V8 engine's torque elevated its performance to near sports car levels.

First elected in 1954, Boyle was in his third term and was on his way home after campaigning for his fellow Democrats in the November 3 elections when his car crashed into an elevated train pillar on North Western Avenue.

During early development of the vertebrate embryo, a longitudinal groove on the neural plate gradually deepens and the ridges on either side of the groove ( the neural folds ) become elevated, and ultimately meet, transforming the groove into a closed tube, the ectodermal wall of which forms the rudiment of the nervous system.

The virtue of this elevated position allowed spectators to see multiple scales simultaneously, viewing city blocks in proportion to a highway system as well as artificially controlled trees in glass domes.

The term originates from joining mono ( one ) and rail, from as early as 1897, possibly from German engineer Eugen Langen who called an elevated railway system with wagons suspended the Eugen Langen One-railed Suspension Tramway ( Einschieniges Hängebahnsystem Eugen Langen ).

Despite the newly elevated role of courts in Chinese society, there still remains some consensus about defects in China ’ s legal system in regards to progressing towards the rule of law.

A water tower is an elevated structure supporting a watertank constructed at a height sufficient to pressurize a water supply system for the distribution of potable water.

After the war, he was elevated with the title of shishaku ( viscount ) under the kazoku peerage system.

The system was designed so the cars could be adapted to run on top or bottom of the track ( but not easily converted from one to the other ), allowing dual-track movements from a single elevated guideway only slightly wider than the cars.

De Groot points out, in spite of the fact that epinephrine levels and catecholamine excretion are actually not elevated, propranolol ( it is presumed, acting by inhibition of alpha-adrenergic sympathetic activity ) reduces anxiety and tremor in a very useful manner, indicating some of the central nervous system irritability is a manifestation of elevated sensitivity to circulating epinephrine.

The political system depicted in the book is a constitutional monarchy, with the House of Orange elevated to the role of providing an Emperor of the Solar System.

Palme's steadfast opposition to apartheid, which he labeled " a particularly gruesome system ", has elevated theories of South African involvement in his death some of the most prolific even a quarter of a century after his assassination.

* immune system: studies have shown that a majority of patients with anorexia and bulimia nervosa have elevated levels of autoantibodies that affect hormones and neuropeptides that regulate appetite control and the stress response.

The irrigation system in the Yakima's watershed causes periods of both severe river dewatering and elevated flows, relative to the historic streamflow regime.

A system of aqueducts were built by Chumash Indians between 1805 – 1815 to meet the needs of the Mission population and consisted of both ditches and elevated stone masonry.

* Portal hypertension, an elevated blood pressure in the portal vein or portocaval system

Any proposals for re-establishing a train mode of transit in Barbados would require either a subway system or an elevated monorail ( likely placing it along the island's highways ).

Chicago Transit Authority Chicago ' L ' trains use elevated tracks for a portion of the system known as the Loop ( CTA ) | Loop, which is located in the Chicago Loop Community areas of Chicago | community area.

published evidence that BPH is caused by failure in the spermatic venous drainage system resulting in increased hydrostatic pressure and local testosterone levels elevated more than 100 fold above serum levels.

The City ’ s water system consists of 6 wells, two 1. 5-million gallon elevated storage tanks, one 1-million gallon underground reservoir, and more than 100 miles of water main.

This would have all surface and elevated RT systems in Scarborough use interchangeable technology, and ironically return the RT to its originally-planned system.

Turnouts for the Morgan Rack system were similar, with the rack elevated above the running rails.

Yamagata was elevated to the peerage, and received the title of koshaku ( prince ) under the kazoku system in 1907.