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A Madison Street cable car, circa 1900. (MOHAI)

Artifacts of the old cable car line discovered underneath Madison Street. (Feliks Banel/KIRO Newsradio)

Close-up view of rusty "yokes" from Madison Street cable car line, circa 1890. (Feliks Banel/KIRO Newsradio)

Dozens of yokes like these stacked along Madison Street have turned up during a recent construction project. (Feliks Banel/KIRO Newsradio)

Madison Street is getting upgrades to the Bus Rapid Transit or "BRT" line which uses the roadway for buses; cable cars ran on Madison from 1890 to 1940. (Feliks Banel/KIRO Newsradio)

Joe Finelli, a business owner and history buff from West Seattle, spotted the artifacts as he drove past last week. (Feliks Banel/KIRO Newsradio)

A construction photo from 1907 shows an alternate style of yoke - or guide for the moving cable which gave cable cars their motion - circled in yellow. (MOHAI)

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