I just put the September 2026 version of my Cable Car Home Page on the server:
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/
It includes some new items:
- Picture of the Month: "Take the Cable Cars and Visit the Circus." Not actually a circus (Source: Grand Rapids Herald, 14-April-1888).
- On the Other Cities page: A ten year update about the Valley City Street and Cable Railway in Grand Rapids, Michigan
- On the How Do Cable Cars Work page: A dad joke about grips
- On the Who page: Added a 1947 crossword puzzle about Mayor Roger Lapham
- On the Motion Pictures Which Feature Cable Cars page: I added screen shots to the article about the movie Dark Passage
- Added News items about an Oikos Yogurt Super Bowl Commercial and the 2026 Pokémon Worlds Championship.
Ten years ago this month (September 2016):
- Picture of the Month: A Valley City Street and Cable Railway cable train on Lyon Street. (© Grand Rapids Public Library. All Rights Reserved. )
- On the Other Cities page: A new article about Valley City Street and Cable Railway in Grand Rapids, Michigan
- On the Who page: Added a profile from the Street Railway Journal about William Eppelsheimer, who designed the grip currently used by San Francisco cable cars
- Added News items about Cal Cable 42 visiting Hyde and Beach and POMA 2000 being abandoned
Twenty years ago this month (September 2006):
- Picture of the Month: Thanks to Wayne Miller, a photo of Market Street cable car 133 on its way to the scrapper in 1941
- On the San Francisco page, a new page about Cable Car Businesses
- Joe Lacey has been scanning items from his collection. Thanks to Joe for sharing them with this site:
- On Walter Rice's A Photo Album of 1970s Cable Car Supporters: A certificate issued to those who attended the 100th anniversary celebration at Portsmouth Square in 1973. Another certificate issued to those who walked the Clay Street Hill route with Margot Patterson Doss on the following Sunday. A picnic invitation issued to the people of the Cable Car Division by Mayor Joe Alioto and the San Francisco Cable Car Centennial Committee
- On Walter Rice and Val Lupiz's The Cable Car Lady & the Mayor: A certificate from the 1947 Citizen's Committee to Save the Cable Cars, signed by Mrs Friedel Klussmann. Also a new section on 1971's Proposition Q, with signs and a letter from the Cable Car Committee, which included Mrs Klussmann
- On the Muni page: A 1967 want ad for cable car crew members
- On the Cable Car Transfers, Tickets, Tokens and Signage, a new section with several of Joe's items
- On the New York/New Jersey page: A newspaper article about the second cable car line in Brooklyn, New York, the Brooklyn Heights Railroad.
- TO RUN IN MAY/Cable Cars Will Traverse Montague Street, which talks plans to build the road.
- Added Bibliography item: obituary of gripman Elwood F Nestler
In January 2024 I started on a long overdue process of cleaning things up on my site. I started with the development pages. Actually, I guess I started the year before with making most thumbnails 200 pixels instead of 100.
Coming in October 2026: On the Cable Car Lines in Other Cities page: A ten year update about the St Paul City Railway
The Cable Car Home Page now has a Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/CableCarHomePage/
The Cable Car Home Page also has an Instagram page:
https://www.instagram.com/cable_car_guy/
Joe Thompson
The Cable Car Home Page (updated 01-September-2026)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/
San Francisco Bay Ferryboats (updated 31-October-2024)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ferry/
Park Trains and Tourist Trains (updated 30-June-2026)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ptrain/
The Pneumatic Rolling-Sphere Carrier Delusion (updated spasmodically)
http://cablecarguy.blogspot.com
The Big V Riot Squad (updated obsessively)
http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/
