The Cable Car Home Page will be 25 years old in November.
I just put the August, 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:
"CARS ... OF THE DOUGLAS CABLE TRAMWAY", from "The Douglas Cable Tramway", an October 30, 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 a second 1896 Engineering article, "The Douglas Cable Tramway"
3. Added News items about the return of the cable cars and more about the pandemic resurging
Ten years ago this month (August, 2011):
1. The picture of the month:
A photo that I took during a visit to Angels Flight
2. On the Los Angeles Area funiculars page:
A new article about a July, 2011 visit to Angels Flight.
3. Added News and Bibliography items about the return of Angels Flight and a wonderful graphic from citypass.com.
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 September, 2021: On the Los Angeles Area funiculars page: An update about Angels Flight.
150 years ago this month (1871):
August 08 - In San Francisco, the Eighth Industrial Fair of the San Francisco Mechanics’ Institute opened. Andrew S Hallidie
exhibited a working model of his overhead cable system for hauling ore.
125 years ago this month (1896):
August 15 - The Isle of Man's Upper Douglas Cable Tramway started service.
August 23 - The Pittsburgh Traction Company's Fifth Avenue line stopped service
25 years ago this month (1996):
August 18 - A car ran away from the barn and rammed another. A tourist lost a leg
The Cable Car Home Page now has a Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/CableCarHomePage/
Joe Thompson
The Cable Car Home Page (updated 01-August-2021)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/
San Francisco Bay Ferryboats (updated 31-January-2020)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ferry/
Park Trains and Tourist Trains (updated 31-July-2021)
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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