I just put the April 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:
A necktie from gentlemen's store Cable Car Clothiers. I have a red one and a navy blue one.
2. On the Kitsch page:
More collectible detritus about cable cars, including: A Hard Rock Cafe pin; a Cable Car Clothiers necktie; a Warriors jersey; "2 Classic Streetcars".
3. Added News items about the passing of Charles Gertsbacher, conductor and about an outage
4. Changed toy cable car picture on the main page to a "2 Classic Streetcars" set.
Ten years ago this month (April, 2012):
1. Picture of the Month: Charles B Fairchild's patent for his twin-cable system.
2. On the Cable Car Lines in New York and New Jersey page: More about the experimental cable car installation on Binghamton's Washington Street & State Asylum Railroad, including items from the Street Railway Journal and Popular Mechanics.
3. On the Miscellany page: More updates to my article about Non-Grip and Shallow Conduit Systems, with more about the Fairchild non-grip system, including Fairchild's Patent 300,236
4. On the Cable Car Lines in New York and New Jersey page: Added a photo of a former Newark PCC now running in San Francisco
5. On the Kitsch page: A pin commemorating the Giants' 2010 World Series victory; a Disney Vinylmation figure; a program from the 1972 Cable Car Classic basketball tournament; a 1984 trade ad for San Francisco's KRON-TV, Channel 4; a cable car centennial coin; a medal issued by the Western Pacific Railroad to mark Powell Street car 524's visit to the 1949 Chicago Railroad Fair; a set of non-postal stamps issued for the Pacific 97 World Stamp Exposition
6. On the Horse Car Home Page, added an active horse car line in a park in Japan and a set of stamps with horse cars
7. Changed toy cable car picture on the main page to detail view of Number 512.
8. Added News item and photo about an exhibit featuring a replica of a California Street cable car
Twenty years ago this month (April, 2002):
1. Picture of the Month: Muni cable car transfer.
2. Add Binghamton's Washington Street & State Asylum Railroad to the Cable Car Lines in New York and New Jersey page.
3. Add more items, especially transfers and tokens to the Kitsch page.
4. Add Kaprun fire and more articles about Angels Flight to the Bibliography.
5. Add many links, including the North Jersey Electric Railway Historical Society and Randall's Lost New York City
6. Change toy cable car picture on the main page to front view of car 514.
Coming in May, 2022: On the Cable Car Lines in New York and New Jersey page: More about the experimental cable car installation of the Brooklyn Cable Company
The Cable Car Home Page now has a Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/CableCarHomePage/
Joe Thompson
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http://www.cable-car-guy.com/
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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
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