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Palm Springs Aerial Tram
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I didn't know it is also called that, TIL
It’s literally named the “Palm Springs Aerial Tramway”
What do you call it?
I was talking about aerial tramway in general, I only knew of cable car
What confuses me is, although cable tram is perfectly fine, that in my mind a tram is like an omnibus with steel wheels on rails, not a cabin hanging from a cable (without any wheels or even an engine). Even a funicular is closer to a tram.
Seilbahn. To be fair tram (the thing with wheels on rails) is called Straßenbahn here. So a literal translation of Seilbahn could be cable tram... Um cable car?
Sometimes a tram is made from one or more Straßenbahnwagen (tram car or streetcar). Funny that it is called streetcar but drives on rails and cars which drive on streets aren't.:)
And then the word Seilbahn is used for both, a funicular or a cable car. Although there is the word Standseilbahn for the second.
Meh. Languages are strange.
I can empathize...
In English, this particular type of overhead cable car is also called a gondola.
The word "gondola" is also the word for those long narrow boats in the canals of Venice.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gondola