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It includes some new items:
1. Picture of the Month: A train of the Los Angeles Cable Railway climbs the steep approach to the Cape Horn viaduct (Source: "The Los Angeles Cable Railway," Scientific American Supplement, 10-October-1891).
2. On the Other California Cities page: A ten and twenty year update on the ill-fated Los Angeles Cable Railway/Pacific Cable Railway
3. On the San Francisco Municipal Railway page: Thank you to Andy Donohoe Jr for a 1973 magazine article which includes a photo of his father, conductor Andy Donohoe. "I don't know where I'm going, but let me off when I get there" by Susan Halas, San Francisco Magazine, August, 1973.
4. Added News item with a cable car Valentine
5. Archived December 2018 What's New
Ten years ago this month (March, 2009):
1. Picture of the Month: A train at the end of the Boyle Heights line of the Los Angeles Cable Railway/Pacific Cable Railway
2. On the Other California Cities page: "A Year's Progress of Cable Motive Power", a paper about cable traction developments by James Clifton Robinson, the General Manager. Robinson visited almost every cable traction line in the US and Europe. This paper was written at a time when electric traction was not considered a viable alternative, so cable was the latest big thing.
3. On the Who page: A new article about James Clifton Robinson, a famous traction engineer who was the General Manager of the Los Angeles Cable Railway/Pacific Cable Railway
Twenty years ago this month (March, 1999):
1. Picture of the Month: Los Angeles Cable Railway Cape Horn viaduct.
2. Roll out Los Angeles Cable Railway/Pacific Railway on the Other California Cities page
3. Add Burgess picture to "Hyde Street Grip" page, add SSR and Norris pictures to McTeague page, and Madison Street Hill to Seattle page
50 years ago this month, on 22-March-1969, Lynda Johnson, President Lyndon Baines Johnson's daughter, was ordered off a cable car because she was eating an ice cream cone
Coming in April, 2019: On the Other California Cities page: A ten and twenty year update on the Oakland Cable Railway
The Cable Car Home Page now has a Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/CableCarHomePage/
Joe Thompson
The Cable Car Home Page (updated 01-March-2019)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/
San Francisco Bay Ferryboats (updated 31-January-2019)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ferry/
Park Trains and Tourist Trains (updated 30-September-2018)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ptrain/
The Pneumatic Rolling-Sphere Carrier Delusion (updated spasmodically)
http://cablecarguy.blogspot.com
The Big V Riot Squad (new blog)
http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/
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