I just put the March 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:
After I spoke about cable cars to the Sixth Grade class at Good Shepherd School in Pacifica, I received thank you notes from the students. Very well done.
2. On the Cable Car Lines in New York and New Jersey page:
More about the experimental cable car installation on Newark's Essex Passenger Railway and Newark and Irvington Street Railway, including a newspaper item about a stable fire that killed 50 of their horses.
3. On the Decorated Cable Cars page: A list of cars decorated for Black History Month 2022. No photos yet
4. Added News items about the COVID-19 pandemic and cars being decorated to celebrate the Lunar New Year
Ten years ago this month (March, 2012):
1. Picture of the Month: A Rasmussen-equipped car with the endless belt or "chain pump" (Source: "New System of Cable Propulsion for Street Railways" From The American Engineer / Volume 7, Number 4, January 25, 1884).
2. On the Cable Car Lines in New York and New Jersey page: More about the experimental cable car installation on Newark's Essex Passenger Railway and Newark and Irvington Street Railway, including articles from the Street Railway Journal.
3. More about the Chicago West Divsion's, short-lived experimental implementation, on the Chicago page including items from the Street Railway Journal, Western Electrician and Engineering News
4. On the Miscellany page: Updates to my article about Non-Grip and Shallow Conduit Systems, with more about the Rasmussen non-grip system, including Rasmusen's Patent re10,602 and magazine items from The American Railroad Journal, the Engineering News-Record, "New System of Cable Propulsion for Street Railways" from The American Engineer and the Street Railway Journal.
5. Added News item about car 21 being decorated with New York Giants paraphernalia
Twenty years ago this month (March, 2002):
1. Picture of the Month: Driving drum from a Rasmussen non-grip system.
2. Add Newark's Essex Passenger Railway/Newark and Irvington Street Railway to the Cable Car Lines in New York and New Jersey page.
3. Add Turning the Cars to the How page.
4. Add Sanborn maps of Los Angeles cable powerhouses to the Other California Cities page.
5. Add magazine article about 1883 experimental electric line in Newark
6. Review all links and fix or remove dead ones.
Coming in April, 2022: On the Cable Car Lines in New York and New Jersey page: On the Cable Car Kitsch page: More collectible detritus about cable cars.
125 years ago this month (March, 1897):
March 4 - Lefty O'Doul was born in Butchertown
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-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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