Turntables at end of line like San Francisco

1) Any other (past) cable car streetcar systems ever have them?
2) Same question, but streetcars other than cable cars?

Thank you.

I don't know about other cable systems, but the B & O had turntables at the CNJ Jersey City Terminal and in at least one of the buildings in NY City that functioned as their "motor coach stations". The purpose was to turn dedicated buses that linked points in NY City (and Brooklyn) to Jersey City and B & O trains bound for Washington and beyond. Operated about 1926-1958.

I know that many of the old horsecar lines had them at their extremities - they were common in Minneapolis and St. Paul before electrification (1890s), in my local case. Afterwards, much less so, as the systems that didn't have double-ended cars tended to prefer balloon tracks and wyes at less expense.

According to the maps in George Hilton's "The Cable Car in America", the following cities had at least one turntable:

San Francisco (didn't try to count them!)
Chicago (one, on the North Chicago Street Railroad)
Kansas City (three, on the Grand Avenue Railway)
Cincinnati (one, on the Mt. Adams and Eden Park Railway, for about a year before the line was extended in 1887)
Los Angeles (two, on the Second Street Cable Railroad)
Oakland (six)
Seattle (eight)
Denver (one, on the Denver Tramway)
Butte (one)
San Diego (three)

I might have missed one or two.

Solingen, Germany has a turntable for trolleybuses. It was in regular use until last fall (I think), when the line was converted to longer articulated trolleybuses and extended to provide a loop for them. The new trolleybuses have enough auxiliary battery power that the extension doesn't need overhead wires. But the turntable can still be used for fantrips etc., with older trolleybuses.

Hate to derail my own thread, but I like the look of that trolley bus.

Who manufactured it?

They were built 1986-87 in Austria by ÖAF - Graf & Stift, a subsidiary of MAN. Here's their last day of service:

http://www.obus-online.com/html/man_sl1 ... tztag.html

And here's the first day of service of the new terminal with the new artics (built in Switzerland by Hess). Note the lowered trolley poles.

http://www.obus-online.com/html/eroeffn ... hnhof.html

And some nice pictures of the arrival of the last of the new Hess artics. Looks like they lined up all of its siblings to welcome it!

http://www.obus-online.com/html/hess_an ... g_965.html

Thanks.