Saturday, January 1, 2022

January, 2022 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- January 1, 2022


I just put the January 2022 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: The heavy Endres bottom grip used on Hoboken cable cars. Note the cable lifters before and after the grip. (Source: Image courtesy of Rail-Road Extra).
2. On the Cable Car Lines in New York and New Jersey page: I find it hard to believe that it has been twenty years since I first wrote about Hoboken's North Hudson County Railway. Here we have some ten and twenty year updates including an excerpt from The History of the North Hudson County Railway, 1898.
3. Also on the Decorated Cable Cars page: A list of cars decorated for Christmas 2021. No photos yet.
4. On the Cable Tramways in Australia and New Zealand page: The holiday schedule of the Wellington Cable Car.
5. Added News items about San Francisco Mayor London Breed talking about cable cars and Metallica being symbols of the city and the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

Ten years ago this month (January, 2012):
Picture of the Month: A stereo view of a car on the cable-operated Hoboken elevated
2. On the Cable Car Lines in New York and New Jersey page: More about Hoboken's North Hudson County Railway, including articles from the Street Railway Journal. Also some contemporary newspaper articles about the elevated and the company's Weehawken Viaduct:
-- Hoboken Elevated Trial Trips (New York Sun, Sunday, December 20, 1885)
-- Hoboken Elevated Testing (Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Tuesday, January 26, 1886)
-- Hoboken Elevated Suspended (Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Monday, February 8, 1886)
-- Hoboken Elevated Runaway (New-York Tribune, Thursday, February 10, 1887)
-- Weehawken Viaduct Removed (New York Tribune, Monday, March 5, 1900)
3. Also on the Decorated Cable Cars page: A list of cars decorated for Christmas 2011. No photos yet.

Twenty years ago this month (January, 2002):
1. Picture of the Month: Hoboken elevated
2. Roll out new Cable Car Lines in New York and New Jersey page with an article on the Hoboken's North Hudson County Railway.
3. Sutter Street Railway cable traction 125th anniversary. Add photos to the Sutter Street Railway page and make images into thumbnails. Add Sanborn maps of powerhouses. Also thumbnailed photos on McTeague page.
4. Add Henry Casebolt to the Who page
5. Add photos to the Geary Street, Park and Ocean page and make images into thumbnails. Add Sanborn maps of both powerhouses.

Coming in February, 2022: On the Cable Car Lines in Chicago page: A ten and twenty year update about Powell Street cable car 524 at the 1949 Chicago Railroad Fair

125 years ago this month (January, 1897):
January 21 - The Glasgow District Subway reopened, having shut down almost immediately after it first opened

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

Joe Thompson
The Cable Car Home Page (updated 01-January-2022)
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 30-November-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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