July, 2021 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- July 1, 2021

 

Engineering, October 23, 1896

The Cable Car Home Page will be 25 years old in November.

I just put the July, 2021 version of my Cable Car Home Page on the server:
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/

It includes some new items:
1. Picture of the Month: "DIAGRAM OF GRADIENTS OF THE DOUGLAS CABLE TRAMWAY", from "The Douglas Cable Tramway", an October 23, 1896 Engineering article.
2. On the Cable Trams in the UK page: Updated article on the Isle of Man's Upper Douglas Cable Tramway, including an 1896 Engineering article, "The Douglas Cable Tramway"
3. On the Cable Trams in the UK page: Links to current videos about Dunedin, New Zealand's Mornington Tramway and the Wellington Cable Car. Thank you to Bus Driver Nick for sharing his work.
4. Added News and Chronology items about the planned return of the cable cars, the unearthing of long-buried cable car tracks at California and Van Ness, a History Happy Hour with the San Francisco Cable Car Museum, and more about the pandemic and California opening up
5. Updated some pages with information about reopenings: San Francisco Municipal Railway, Kansas City Streetcar, Angels Flight, Great Orme Tramway and two Cliff Lifts

Ten years ago this month (July, 2011):
1. The picture of the month: Upper Douglas Cable Tramway car descending Prospect Hill on the Isle of Man. (Source: Railway World, October 1896).
2. On the Cable Car Lines in the UK page: Updated article on the Isle of Man's Upper Douglas Cable Tramway, including an 1896 Railway World article, Cable Traction in the Isle of Man
3. On Walter Rice's page about Glen Hurlburt's "Cable Car Concerto," a 1947 composition that represents a ride on the Mason Street line, added an image of the label
4. Added information about Muni fare changes.
5. Added News and Bibliography items about more shutdowns, the return of the California Street line, a fare increase and labor issues

Twenty years ago this quarter (Spring, 2001):
1. Picture of the Quarter: Will Clark riding on cable car
2. Add more items to the Kitsch page, including stamps and magazine advertisements.
3. Add Selected articles from Manufacturer and Builder Magazine (1880-1884) to the Miscellany page.
4. Update How Do Cable Cars Work? page. Changed images to thumbnails. Added girder rail image from Randy Hees and other new images.
5. Bob Murphy provided a photograph of the Gertrude Street Cable Winding House, which I added to the Melbourne article. Peter Vawser provided additional information about Melbourne cable tramways.
6. Add links to Kavanaugh Transit site, North American Vintage Trolley Systems and many others.
7. Add News and Bibliography items about a truck knocking down Seattle's Iron Pergola.
8. Add News and Bibliography items about Angel's Flight runaway accident. Also updated the Los Angeles Area Funiculars page.
9. Move Kalakala article to my ferry web site.
10. Change toy cable car picture on the main page to car 51.
11. Move "The Los Angeles Cable Railway" article from Scientific American (courtesy of Tom Ehrenreich) to another server.

Coming in August, 2021: On the Cable Car Lines in the UK page: Another article about the Isle of Man's Upper Douglas Cable Tramway.

The Cable Car Home Page now has a Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/CableCarHomePage/

Joe Thompson
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