August 2026 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- August 3, 2026

I launched The Cable Car Home Page on AOL thirty years ago in November 1996.

I just put the August 2026 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: Power-House of Sioux City Cable Railway. (Source: Sioux City Journal / 01-January-1891.)
2. On the Other Cities page: A ten year update about the short-lived Sioux City Cable Railway with several contemporary newspaper items.
3. On the Motion Pictures Which Feature Cable Cars page: I added Bullitt
4. On the Horse Car Home Page: King Charles III visited the Isle of Mann and rode on a horse car.
5. Added News items about the Hyde Ride and two stoppages, an interview with gripman Val Lupiz and Cal Cable car 49 arriving at the Colfax Hotel. Also a Chronology item about Car 49

Ten years ago this month (August 2016):

1. Picture of the Month: A Sioux City Cable Railway grip car and two trailer train poses in front of the powerhouse. (Source: "Editorial Correspondence," The Street Railway Journal April, 1888.) On the Other Cities page: A new article about Sioux City Cable Railway On the Who page: Added a profile from the Street Railway Journal about William Phenix, who designed and built the Sioux City Cable Railway On the Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest page: Added two newspaper clippings about Albert E Ward, who won from 1957 through 1959 On the Horse Car Home Page: A reprieve through 2018 for the Douglas Bay Horse Tramway on the Isle of Man. Also News item. Added News item about a new campaign to revive Angels Flight

Twenty years ago this month (August 2006):

1. Picture of the Month: Car 24 was the only piece of California Street rolling stock to survive the earthquake and fire.
2. On the San Francisco in 1906 page, 1906 newspaper articles describing the return of the California Street cable cars:
   CABLE LINE TO OPEN NEXT WEEK/Car Service on California Street to Be Resumed Shortly (San Francisco Chronicle, Wednesday, August 8, 1906) FEW REPAIRS FOR CALIFORNIA LINE/Cable Cars to Operate This Week Over Uninjured Roadbeds (San Francisco Chronicle, Tuesday, August 14, 1906) FIRST CAR RUN ON CALIFORNIA STREET/Successful Test of the Cable Line Which Will Soon Be in Operation (San Francisco Chronicle, Thursday, August 16, 1906)
3. On the Decorated Cable Cars page: Cable cars in the 2006 San Francisco Carnaval Parade.
4. On the New York/New Jersey page: A newspaper article about the second cable car line in Brooklyn, New York, the Brooklyn Heights Railroad. DOWN THE HILL/A Cable Car Breaks Away on Montague Street, which talks about a runaway.
5. Added Bibliography items about the 2006 Bell Ringing contest. The stories have links to a podcast of the event.

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 September 2026: On the Cable Car Lines in Other Cities page: A ten year update about the Valley City Street and Cable Railway in Grand Rapids, Michigan

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-August-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/

July 2026 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- July 9, 2026

I launched The Cable Car Home Page on AOL thirty years ago in November 1996.

I just put the July 2026 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 cable car appears with the Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco Bay Stadium (Levi's Stadium) in this wonderful coloring page commemorating the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Thanks to colorko.com for letting me use this image. (Source: www.colorko.com All Rights Reserved but free to use for any non-commercial purpose)
2. On the Cable Car Lines in Colorado page: A ten year update about the Denver City Cable Railway .
3. Also on the Cable Car Lines in Colorado page: Updated the articles about the Denver Tramway Company, the Cherrelyn Horse Car, the Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway, and the Royal Gorge Incline Railway
4. On the Motion Pictures Which Feature Cable Cars page: I added a screen shot to the article about the movie The Rock
5. Added News, Chronology items about the band Train giving a surprise concert on a chartered cable car, cable cars and the 2026 FIFA World Cup, and the discovery of a buried conduit in Dunedin, NZ.

Ten years ago later this month (July 2016):

1. On the Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest page, added results for the 53rd Annual Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest.

Ten years ago this month (July 2016):

1. Picture of the Month: The Denver City Cable Railway Company name still appears above the doorway of the building. Google Maps Streetview Image updated May 2014. Copyright 2016 Google.
3. On the new Cable Car Lines in Colorado page: A new article about the Denver City Cable Railway .
5. Also on the new Cable Car Lines in Colorado page: 4Moved the article about the Denver Tramway Company from the Other Cities page.
6. On the new Cable Car Lines in Ohio page: Added an advertisement for bonds issued by the Cleveland City Cable Railway
7. On the Who page: Added a profile from the Street Railway Journal about HM Kebby, who worked on cable car lines in San Francisco, Saint Louis and Saint Paul
8. On the Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest page: Added results of the 1959 Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest and a photo of Albert E Ward, who won from 1957 through 1959
9. Added News and Chronology items about Powell Street Car 12 returning to service in a new color scheme

Twenty years ago later this month (July 2006):

1. Added the results of the 2006 Bell Ringing contest.

Twenty years ago this month (July 2006):

1. Picture of the Month: Walter Rice's photo of Powell Street car "715", to celebrate Barry Bonds passing Babe Ruth on the all-time list.
2. On the Muni page: A 1974 Powell/Mason schedule - warning LARGE images
3. On the new Inexplicable Cable Car Items section on the Kitsch page: Walter Rice found a souvenir magnet showing Sóller, Mallorca's famous Hyde Street cable car.
4. On the New York/New Jersey page: Three newspaper articles about the second cable car line in Brooklyn, New York, the Brooklyn Heights Railroad. THE FIRST CAR/Travels Over the Montague Street Road, which talks about an early demonstration run. THROWN THROUGH A WINDOW/Singular accident on the Montague Street Railroad, which talks about injuries caused by a sudden stop. BATH OF RED PAINT/Basis of a Damage Suit for $1,700 Instituted by Miss May Against W. J. Cockle, which is hard to explain. Also one more 1886 newspaper article about the first cable car line in Brooklyn, New York. CABLE ROADS/Universal Interest Excited by the Brooklyn Experiment, which talks about how many companies were interested in the Johnson ladder cable technology. It includes a detailed description of the traction method.
5. Added News and Bibliography items about a loose strand which shut down the Powell Street cable for most of a day

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 August 2026: On the Other Cities page: A ten year update about the Sioux City Cable Railway

250 years ago - 1776
Jul 04 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Second Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence.

25 years ago - 2001
Jul 20 - Byron Cobb won the 38th annual Bell Ringing Contest

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-July-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/

June 2026 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- June 1, 2026

 I launched The Cable Car Home Page on AOL thirty years ago in November 1996.

I just put the June 2026 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:
2. The only car of the Elgin Road Extension "on the day of the trial run." Tramway employees post with the car. (Source: Otago Witness, 10-October-1906). June, 2026 Picture of the Month.
3. On the Cable Tramways in Australia and New Zealand page: A ten year update about Dunedin, New Zealand's short-lived Elgin Road Extension, which operated from 1906 to 1910
4. On the Motion Pictures Which Feature Cable Cars page: Added Crosscurrent/The Cable Car Murder, a 1971 television movie set in San Francisco and added one screen grab to In Love and War
5. On the Kansas City page: A promotion for the opening of the KC Streetcar's Berkley Riverfront extension
6. On the What is a Cable Car? page: Some minor updates.3
7. On the Miscellany page: An update about the reopening of the The Lookout Mountain Incline Railway. Added News items about the return of the Hyde Ride and the return of gripman Val Lupiz from disability

Ten years ago this month (June 2016):

1. Picture of the Month: Tracks along Elgin Road await the completion of the rest of the extension (Source: Otago Witness, 28-June-1905).
2. On the Cable Tramways in Australia and New Zealand page: A new article about Dunedin, New Zealand's short-lived Elgin Road Extension, which operated from 1906 to 1910
3. On the Motion Pictures Which Feature Cable Cars page: Thanks to Antonio Marquardt, added screen grabs to I Love a Soldier
4. On the Kansas City page: A new article about the Return of Electric Streetcars to Kansas City
5. Added News and Chronology items items about Powell Street Car 24 being dedicated to Giants great Willie Mays
6. Added News item about an auto driving onto the Powell and Market turntable

Twenty years ago this month (June 2006):

1. Picture of the Month: Geary Street cable cars run among the ruins in 1906.
2. Results of the 2006 Contest, conceived by Walter Rice, who has also generously provided the prizes
3. On the San Francisco in 1906 page, 1906 newspaper articles describing the return of the Geary Street cable cars, work on the California Street lines, and the replacement of United Railroads lines with electric traction:
   • GEARY-STREET CHIMNEY NOW READY FOR USE (San Francisco Chronicle, Friday, June 15, 1906)
   • GEARY-STREET CARS AGAIN IN OPERATION CABLE UNDAMAGED AND SLOT NOT BADLY HURT (San Francisco Chronicle, Friday, June 22, 1906)
   • CALIFORNIA STREET CARS/Cable Road Expects to Resume Operations by First of August (San Francisco Chronicle, Friday, June 15, 1906)
   • TOO MANY CARS JUMPED TRACK/Service on Hayes Street Line Abandoned Until New Rail Can Be Laid. (San Francisco Chronicle, Saturday, June 16, 1906)
   • WANT CABLE CARS TO RESUME OPERATION/McAllister Street Residents Would Have Old Line Run Again. (San Francisco Chronicle, August 3, 1906)
4. On the New York/New Jersey page: Five 1872-1899 newspaper articles about the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway, a cable-operated elevated railroad
5. Added a Bibliography item about a California Street shutdown

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 July 2026: On the Cable Tramways in Australia and New Zealand page: A ten year update about Dunedin, New Zealand's Elgin Road Extension, the last new cable tramway built.

250 years ago - 1776
Jun 29 - San Francisco and Mission Dolores were founded

175 years ago - 1851
Jun 01 - Horse-drawn omnibuses began running between downtown San Francisco and Mission Dolores
Jun 09 - The First San Francisco Committee of Vigilance was organized in response to a wave of crimes, especially arson
Jun 10 - The Committee of Vigilance hanged John Jenkins of the Sydney Ducks gang for stealing a safe
Jun 22 - The Sixth Great Fire destroyed 14 blocks
Jun 25 - The New Mission Toll Road opened from Clay and Kearny, out Third to Mission, along Mission to Corbett Road

150 years ago - 1876
Jun 14 - The California Street Cable Railroad received its franchise

125 years ago - 1901
Jun 19 - Metropolitan Street Railway (New York, New York) converted its Lexington Avenue line to electricity

75 years ago - 1951
Jun 21 - A Powell Street cable car rolled along Atlantic City, New Jersey’s famous boardwalk, as part of San Francisco’s unsuccessful effort to obtain Lions Club’s 1952 convention (the 1952 convention was held in Mexico City). "Equipped with rubber tires and drawn by a jeep, the cable car was in constant use, furnishing free rides to all who could get on board." The cable car had traveled across the country on a railroad flat car. The display was complete with a gripman, and conductor who issued special transfers proclaiming "San Francisco -- Convention City." Through 28-June-1951.

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-June-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 31-May-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/

May 2026 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- May 1, 2026

I launched The Cable Car Home Page on AOL thirty years ago in November 1996.

I just put the May 2026 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 Last Kaikorai cable tram in Dunedin, New Zealand (Source: Dunedin Evening Star, 01-August-1947).
2. On the Cable Tramways in Australia and New Zealand page: A ten year update about Dunedin, New Zealand's Kaikorai Tramway, including newspaper articles.
3. On the Motion Pictures Which Feature Cable Cars page: I added a screen print to the article about the movie Foul Play
4. On the Cable Car Lines in the District of Columbia and Baltimore page: Added an item about the closing of Washington DC's DC Streetcar, which had revived streetcar service in the District of Columbia
5. On the Horse Car Home Page: The Douglas Bay Horse Tramway on the Isle of Man issues a schedule for its 150th season. Also a Chronology item
6. Added News items about a serious threat to cut cable car service, and information about Muni fare changes.

Ten years ago this month (May 2016):

1. Picture of the Month: A Kaikorai cable tram crests a hill. Note the pram hooked to the front dash. (Source: The Kaikorai Cable Tram. Amateur film by William Hood Davidson, 1947. Hocken Collections.)
2. On the Cable Tramways in Australia and New Zealand page: A new article about Dunedin, New Zealand's Kaikorai Tramway.
3. Added News and Bibliography items about a news story that I got interviewed for.
4. On the Cable Trams in the UK: Thanks to Stefan Isaksson for some new information about London's Highgate Hill Cable Tramway, the first Hallidie-type cable tramway in Europe
5. Also on the UK page: Added the three cliff lifts in Bournemouth to the Cliff Lifts article. Added News story about a landslide that affected the East Cliff Lift.
6. On the Horse Car Home Page: The Douglas Bay Horse Tramway on the Isle of Man issues a schedule for its 140th season. Also News item.

Twenty years ago this month (May 2006):

Powell-Mason car 509 on the turntable at Powell and Market, scanned from a magazine ad by Walter Rice.
1. Try the new Contest, conceived by Walter Rice, who has also generously provided the prizes
2. On the San Francisco page: A new page of Cable Car Advertising Images, scanned by Walter Rice.
3. Also on the San Francisco page: Added a 1951 Collier's Magazine image to The Cable Car Lady & the Mayor by Walter Rice and Val Lupiz, showing Mrs Friedel Klussmann and other cable car supporters.
4. Also on the San Francisco page: Walter Rice scanned Samuel Kahn's signature from a stock certificate as part of his article "An Interview With Mrs. Barbara Kahn Gardner, Daughter of Market Street Railway Executive Samuel Kahn"
5. On the Cable Car Transfers, Tickets, Tokens and Signage page: Thanks to Val Lupiz and Walter Rice, a sign warning riders about the California Street line turnback because of the Chinese New Year parade, 2006.
6. On the New York/New Jersey page: Five 1870 newspaper articles about the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway, a cable-operated elevated railroad and the Beach Pneumatic Subway
7. Added a News item about the 18-April-2006 celebrations

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 June 2026: On the Cable Tramways in Australia and New Zealand page: A ten year update about Dunedin, New Zealand's Elgin Road Extension, the last new cable tramway built.

175 years ago - 1851
May 04 - The Fifth Great Fire destroyed San Francisco's entire business district

125 years ago - 1901
May 11 - Metropolitan Street Railway (New York, New York) converted its Columbus Avenue line to electricity
May 25 - Metropolitan Street Railway (New York, New York) converted its Broadway line to electricity

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-May-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 31-October-2025)
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/

April 2026 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- April 1, 2026

I launched The Cable Car Home Page on AOL thirty years ago in November 1996.

I just put the April 2026 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: Disney Vinylmation figures are shaped like Mickey Mouse, but are decorated to resemble a variety of Disney and non-Disney characters and places. This one, part of the San Francisco series, is decorated as a cable car. My family recently gave me this figure with its tin. Even the inside of the tin is lithographed to look like a cable car.
2. On the Kitsch page: a Disney Vinylmation Mickey Mouse figure; a 2019 Giants replica cable car honoring Hall of Famer Willie McCovey; a 2019 Golden State Warriors Draymond Green bobblehead posing with a cable car; an ad for Porte Dorée beer; a Kansas City Cable Railway puzzle;
3. On the Motion Pictures Which Feature Cable Cars page: I added screen prints to the articles about the movies Crime of Passion and D.O.A.
4. Added Chronology items about recent events from 2025-2026
5. Added News items about operational events including traffic delays during the week leading up to Super Bowl LX.
6. Changed toy cable car picture on the main page to Cal Cable Number 51.

Ten years ago this month (April 2016):

1. Picture of the Month: An impressionistic Delta Airlines poster.
2. On the Kitsch page: An American Airlines poster; Two Delta Airlines posters; A TWA poster; Three United Airlines posters; a 7x7 Magazine cover; a Hard Rock Cafe pin with a cable car and a golden dragon; a Giants 1995 pin; a Giants 2007 All Star Game pin
3. On the San Francisco page: A new page about 1941 - A Bad Year for Cable Cars, describing the cable car and counterbalance lines that got abandoned or replaced by buses in San Francisco and Seattle.
4. On the Horse Car Home Page: A reprieve for at least one season for the Douglas Bay Horse Tramway on the Isle of Man. Also News item.
5. Added News item about Amber Jones, who has become the third woman to operate a cable car.
6. Added News item about the sixth annual San Francisco History Expo

Twenty years ago this month (April 2006):

1. Picture of the Month: The headline of the 19-April-1906 Call=Chronicle=Examiner, printed on the presses of the Oakland Tribune by a combination of three of San Francisco's major newspapers.
2. On the San Francisco page: A new page about San Francisco in 1906, describing the effect of the earthquake and fire on the city's cable car lines.
3. Also on the San Francisco page: Thanks to Jack Tillmany, a detailed review about the movie I Love a Soldier, which featured Barry Fitzgerald as a gripman.
4. On the New York/New Jersey page: Three 1869 newspaper articles about the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway, a cable-operated elevated railroad
5. On the Kitsch page: Bachman ho cable car under the Christmas tree. 1954 and 1960 Bank of America magazine ads.
6. Changed toy cable car picture on the main page to detail view of Number 514.

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 May 2026: On the Cable Tramways in Australia and New Zealand page: A ten year update article about Dunedin, New Zealand's Kaikorai Tramway.

25 years ago - 2001
Apr 24 - Muni rolled out new Car 9 to honor the 100th anniversary of Hallidie's death
Apr 30 - A collision at the crossover of the upper line injured 17 passengers on the Great Orme Tramway (Landudno, Wales)

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-April-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 31-October-2025)
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/

March 2026 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- March 1, 2026

I launched The Cable Car Home Page on AOL thirty years ago in November 1996.

I just put the March 2026 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 1939 newspaper article describes how the Dunedin cable trams were popular with tourists from Australia. "...Australian tourists made merry on the Maryhill extension line." (Source: Dunedin Evening Star, 15-March-1939)
2. On the Cable Tramways in Australia and New Zealand page: A ten year update about Dunedin, New Zealand's Maryhill Extension, known as "The Big Dipper."
3. On the Motion Pictures Which Feature Cable Cars page: I added screen prints to the article about the 1935 Universal B movie Chinatown Squad
4. Added News about operational events

Ten years ago this month (March 2016):

1. Picture of the Month: An 1895 view of Maryhill Tramway car 9 with unusual roof and windows. Photograph by William Henry Jackson. Thanks to Len Foley for pointing out that this was the Maryhill and not the Roslyn line. (Source: World's Transportation Commission Photograph Collection - Library of Congress. CALL NUMBER - LOT 11948, no. 688)
2. On the Cable Tramways in Australia and New Zealand page: A new article about Dunedin, New Zealand's Maryhill Extension, known as "The Big Dipper."
3. On the Cable Car Models page: A model of a San Diego cable car by Eleanor Catalina Stevens.
4. On the Horse Car Home Page: More about the threat to kill off the Douglas Bay Horse Tramway on the Isle of Man. Also News item.

Twenty years ago this month (March 2006):

1. Picture of the Month: Denver Tramway Company Car 40, preserved at the Forney Transportation Museum.
2. Added information about the Denver Tramway Company to the Other Cities page
3. On the Australia/New Zealand page: Thanks to Stuart James, a photograph of his great-grandfather in a Melbourne engine house
4. On the San Francisco page: An update to the second edition of Of Cables and Grips: The Cable Cars of San Francisco, by Robert Callwell & Walter E. Rice. New information about the powerhouse
5. Added Bibliography items about two books: The End of the Penny Section and Penang Trams
6. On the New York/New Jersey page: Four 1868 newspaper articles about the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway, a cable-operated elevated railroad
7. Added a News item about a new book about Penang transit

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 Apriil 2026: On the Cable Car Kitsch page: A panoply of collectible items.

25 years ago - 2001
The Giants won the National League West, but lost the National League Division Series to the NLDS to New York Mets, 3 games to 1.

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-March-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 31-October-2025)
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/

February 2026 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- February 20, 2026

I launched The Cable Car Home Page on AOL thirty years ago in November 1996.

This month I am embarrassed to publish this for the second time in a row on the 20th, but I have had various impediments.

I just put the February 2026 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: In 1958, former Mornington Tramway trailer 167 was restored and sent to the Transit Museum in Matahoke. (Source: The Christchurch Press, 01-October-1958)
2. On the Cable Tramways in Australia and New Zealand page: A ten year update about Dunedin, New Zealand's Mornington Tramway, the last Hallidie-type cable tram line to operate outside of San Francisco. More newspaper items.
3. Added News items about operating issues

Ten years ago this month (February 2016):

1. Picture of the Month: The only piece of rolling stock that survived the 1903 fire (Source: Otago Witness, 18-February-1903)
2. On the Cable Tramways in Australia and New Zealand page: A new article about Dunedin, New Zealand's Mornington Tramway, the last Hallidie-type cable tram line to operate outside of San Francisco. Many newspaper items about the opening of the line and a fire that destroyed all the rolling stock except one trailer.
3. Added News items the passing of conductor Rey Morante and the possible end of horse tram service on the Isle of Man

Twenty years ago this month (February 2006):

1. Picture of the Month: A Roslyn cable tram in Dunedin, New Zealand.
2. 24-February-2004 marks the 125th anniversary of Dunedin, New Zealand's Roslyn Tramway, the first Hallidie-type cable tram line outside of San Francisco. I also updated the small article on Wellington's Kelburn Cable Car to mention that the museum has just received grip car 3 restored to its 1905 appearance
3. Thanks to Walter Rice, "San Franciscans Fight to Keep Historic Cable Cars", a 1947 Life article about the beginning of the rebellion against Mayor Roger Lapham's plan to get rid of the Powell Street cable cars. Also "City I Love", a 1946 Time profile about Mayor Roger Lapham
4. On the Cable Car Transfers, Tickets, Tokens and Signage page: Thanks to Val Lupiz, a sign warning riders about the California Street line turnback on New Year's Eve, 2005.
5. Added News and Bibliography items about the mayor accusing crewmen of skimming fares and a fatality on Mason Street
6. On the New York/New Jersey page: Ten 1867-1868 newspaper articles about the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway, a cable-operated elevated railroad

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 March 2026: On the Cable Tramways in Australia and New Zealand page: More about Dunedin, New Zealand's Roslyn Tramway, the first Hallidie-type cable tram line outside of San Francisco.

125 years ago - 1901
Feb 14 - Peoples' Railway (St Louis, Missouri) converted to electricity

75 years ago - 1951
Feb 19 - Cal Cable, as authorized by the Public Utilities Commission, increased its fares from 10 cents to 15 cents with two tokens for 25 cents or nine for $1. Even with this increase company claims it would lose money (1951), unless Muni paid 5 cents for each Muni transfer Cal Cable received. Cal Cable received 348,900 passengers per year (1950) more from Muni than Muni received from them. Cal Cable lost $19,998 in 1948, $50,474 in 1949 and $51,311 in 1950. The 15-cents fare was expected to reduce the company's 1951 loss to $10,963. The average daily patronage in 1950 was 16,437.

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 20-February-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 31-October-2025)
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/

December 2025 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- December 12, 2025

I just put the December 2025 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: Santa and friends will ride a cable car down Powell Street to the Emporium. "His cable car reaches Powell and Market at 11 a.m." (Source: San Francisco Examiner, 1949-10-28).
2. With Christmas coming, it's a good time to visit the late Joe Lacey's article Christmas on the Cables, and the Decorated Cable Cars page. Added a photo of Santa riding atop a cable car and a 1952 Emporium ad about the 1950 Santacade to Christmas on the Cables. Also Santa's Cable Car coming to Hyde and Beach. Cable car Christmas decorations celebrated their 20th anniversary.
3. Added News and Chronology items about Santa's Cable Car, service issues, the Merry Days of Muni Holiday Collection and the last day of San Francisco's Breda cars
4. On the Kansas City page: A promotion for the opening of the KC Streetcar's Holiday Jam

Ten years ago this month (December 2015):

1. Picture of the Month: Cable car 504 decorated as Santa's sleigh. (source: Trolley Topics, December, 1950)
2. With Christmas coming, it's a good time to visit Joe Lacey's article Christmas on the Cables, and the Decorated Cable Cars page. On the Christmas on the Cable page, Iddded a new image to Christmas on the Cables, showing car 504 decorated as Santa's sleigh. On the Decorated Cable Cars page, added Val Lupiz photos of Powell Street Car One decorated for Christmas, 2015. We should all thank Val Lupiz and his family and Friends who decorate cars every year.
3. On the More MSR Photos page: The Fate of the Old Sacramento and Clay St. Cable Car #16 by Stephen Brown
4. Added News item about Muni closing almost two blocks of lower Powell Street to automobile traffic

Twenty years ago this month (December 2005):

1. Picture of the Month: An invitation which Val Lupiz designed for the Cable Car Division's 2005 luncheon for Senior Citizens.
2. On the Decorated Cable Cars page: The luncheon invitation
3. On the San Francisco page: A new page about Motorized Cable Cars. Notes from Walter Rice and Val Lupiz on Cal Cable 61/62
4. Also on the San Francisco page: Thanks to Jack Tillmany, item about the movies Fools, part of which was shot in the cable car barn, and Fog Over Frisco, a 1934 movie with glimpses of cable cars.
5. On the Muni page: Thanks to Ray Long, a photo of 524 running on Broadway in Los Angeles for a 1949 Shriners parade
6. On the More MSR Photos page: Val Lupiz found a postcard of an MSR cable RPO car
7. On the Cable Car Transfers, Tickets, Tokens and Signage page: Thanks to Walter Rice, a TWA poster
8. On the New York/New Jersey page: Two 1886 newspaper articles about the first cable car line in Brooklyn, New York. WANTS TO USE THE CABLE, about a request for permission to use cable traction and CABLE ROAD/The Aldermen Inspect the New York Variety, about a junket to inspect a Manhattan line. Also an 1893 article, The Passing of Richardson, about the death of Brooklyn Cable Company promoter William Richardson
9. Added News items about new Powell Street cable car book signing and a meltdown on the Hyde Street line. Also added Nick Kibre photo to the item about Cal Cable car 59 in New Orleans
10. Added Bibliography items: Obituaries for Grimes Poznikov, Chester Smith, and Guillermo P Mendoza, Sr. Also a report of a 1980 publicity stunt

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 January 2026: On the Cable Tramways in Australia and New Zealand page: More about Dunedin, New Zealand's Roslyn Tramway, the first Hallidie-type cable tram line outside of San Francisco.

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-December-2025)
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 31-October-2025)
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/

November 2025 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- November 3, 2025

I just put the November 2025 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 Las Casitas Railway is a private funicular on San Francisco's Russian Hill. It still serves a group of townhouses. (Source: San Francisco Examiner, 1960-10-02).
2. On the new Northern California Funiculars page: Added new items about the Shasta Springs Incline, the Shadowbrook Restaurant, Capitola and Private Funiculars. Moved Telegraph Hill Railroad, the Fillmore Hill Counterbalance and the The Fairfax Incline Railway from the San Francisco Miscellany page.
3. On the Kansas City page: A postcard showing the Kansas City Cable Railway's destination, the Union Depot and a banner from the opening of the KC Streetcar's Main Street Extension

Ten years ago this month (November 2015):

1. Picture of the Month: A Churchman's Cigarettes card shows a cable-hauled train leaving a tunnel on Brazil's São Paulo Railway.
2. On the Other Cities page: A new article about Brazil's São Paulo Railway, a British-built line that used cable traction to haul freight and passengers up and down the Serra do Mar

Twenty years ago this month (November 2005):

1. Picture of the Month: Valencia Street cable car, 1904.
2. On the San Francisco page: San Francisco Cable Car Service, 1903 -- based on the San Francisco Official Street Railway Directory, 1903. Thanks to Walter Rice.
3. On the San Francisco page: A Photo Album of 1970s Cable Car Supporters by Walter Rice
4. On the More MSR Photos page: Valencia Street cable car, 1903
5. On the New York/New Jersey page: 1886 newspaper articles about the first cable car line in Brooklyn, New York. MR. RICHARDSON'S CABLE ROAD, about an early petition for permission to build the line and TO ADOPT JOHNSON'S SYSTEM, about the choice of the Johnson ladder cable system to operate it
6. Added News item about new Powell Street cable car book

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 December 2025: On the San Francisco page: With Christmas coming, it's a good time to visit the late Joe Lacey's article Christmas on the Cables, and the Decorated Cable Cars page.

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-November-2025)
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 31-October-2025)
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/

September 2025 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- September 6, 2025

I just put the September 2025 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: Lisbon has three street-running funiculars. On 04-September-2025, the Elevador da Glória (Route 51e) suffered a fatal crash when the upper car ran away and hit a building. At least 17 are dead. Image courtesy of Google News.
2. On the Cable Car Lines in Other Cities page: A ten-year update about street-running funiculars in Lisbon, Portugal , with several Carrus website items about the Elevador da Bica, the Elevador da Glória and the Elevador do Lavra. The Elevador da Glória suffered a fatal crash.
3. Added News items about cable car operating issues and the crash in Lisbon

Ten years ago this month (September 2015):

1. Picture of the Month: Car 4 of Lisbon's Camões-Estrela line was built by the German Maschinenfabrik Esslingen. I wonder if it on a transfer table. Photo courtesy of Maschinenfabrik Esslingen.
2. On the Other Cities page: A new article about the street-running funiculars in Lisbon, Portugal , with several photos of the Elevador do Lavra
3. On the Municipal Railway page: The San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency announces measures to improve the safety of cable car crews

Twenty years ago this month (September 2005):

1. Picture of the Month: A Peter Ehrlich photo of Dunedin, NZ cable tram 95.
2. On the Australia/New Zealand page: Peter Ehrlich's photos of a Dunedin cable tram
3. On the San Francisco page: Part Four of Walter Rice and Emiliano Echevarria's "When Steam Ran on the Streets of San Francisco: The Ocean Shore Railroad"
4. Added News and Bibliography items about accidents at Powell and California and California and Drumm. Also news items about the abusive $5 fare and the presentation of a cable car bell to the outgoing Archbishop
5. On the New York/New Jersey page: More 1887 newspaper articles about the first cable car line in Brooklyn, New York. The Rope Broke, about a rope break, and DISSATISFACTION ON THE CABLE ROAD, about labor unrest and a possible shutdown
6. On the Decorated Cable Cars page: Cable cars in the 2005 San Francisco Carnaval Parade.
7. Added more Chronology items

175 years ago - 1850
Sep 9 - California was admitted to the Union as the 31st state
Sep 17 - The Fourth Great Fire destroyed the area bounded by Dupont, Montgomery, Washington and Pacific

125 years ago - 1900
Sep 04 - Front Street Cable Railway (Seattle, Washington) converted to electricity. The section on Queen Anne Hill was converted to a counterbalance.

75 years ago - 1950
Sep 17 - "Service on Line No. 59 (Powell-Mason cable car) will be discontinued on account of construction work on the Broadway Tunnel. A partial substitution of service will be instituted by motor coaches to connect with Line No. 60 (Washington-Jackson cable car) at Powell and Washington Streets." Muni "NOTICE TO PUBLIC" dated September 13, 1950.

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 2025: On the San Francisco page: A new article about private funiculars in San Francisco

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 06-September-2025)
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 31-May-2025)
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/

August 2025 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- August 1, 2025

I just put the August 2025 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: Grip car and trailer 6 of Lisbon's Graça line was built by the German Maschinenfabrik Esslingen. I wonder if it was photographed on elevated tracks as a builder's photo. Photo courtesy of Maschinenfabrik Esslingen. All rights reserved.
2. On the Other Cities page: A ten-year update about the Nova Companhia dos Ascensores Mecânicos de Lisboa, which operated two Hallidie-type cable car lines in Lisbon
3. On the Cable Tramways in Australia and New Zealand page: The extended 2025 Annual Maintenance Shutdown of the Wellington Cable Car
4. On the Kansas City page: Added the logo of the modern KC Streetcar
5. Added News items about cable car operating issues and Muni's psychedlic-wrapped vehicles

Ten years ago this month (August 2015):

1. Picture of the Month: Car 4 of Lisbon's Camões-Estrela line was built by the German Maschinenfabrik Esslingen. I wonder if it on a transfer table. Photo courtesy of Maschinenfabrik Esslingen.
2. On the Other Cities page: A new article on the Nova Companhia dos Ascensores Mecânicos de Lisboa, which operated two Hallidie-type cable car lines in Lisbon
3. On the Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest page, added photos and videos of the 52nd Annual Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest
4. Added News and information about Muni fare changes

Twenty years ago this month (August 2005):

1. Picture of the Month: A Walter Rice photo of Powell Street car 25 with the round dash signs it sported until 1982.
2. On the Cable Car Transfers, Tickets, Tokens and Signage page: Thanks to Walter Rice and Val Lupiz, a collection of Powell Street dash signs. Also an 1898 Cal Cable dividend check.
3. On the San Francisco page: Walter Rice has two more stories about Samuel Kahn, Market Street Railway's principal owner: "Samuel Kahn Paints a Streetcar White," about private party car San Francisco, and "Samuel Kahn, Inventor," about the creation of the White Front Car, with a copy of the patent
4. Also on the San Francisco page: Thanks to Phil Hoffman, an item about the movie I Love a Soldier, which featured Barry Fitzgerald as a gripman. Also thanks to Phil Hoffman, an update to the item about the movie In Harm's Way.
5. On the New York/New Jersey page: More 1887 newspaper articles about the first cable car line in Brooklyn, New York. A CABLE CAR ACCIDENT, about a pedestrian getting injured, and . EXTENDING THE CABLE ROAD, about extending the cable and possibly running cars across the Brooklyn Bridge using the Johnson system
6. Thanks to Phil Hoffman, added Chronology item about Adlai Stevenson campaigning from the back platform of Powell car 504 in 1956. Added a Time Magazine photo of the event to the article on Photos of Car 44 (retired Powell Street car 504/4) at Pac Bell Park
7. Added more Chronology items

75 years ago - 1950
Aug 14 - Cal Cable's O'Farrell, Jones and Hyde cable car service north of California Street is replaced by shuttle buses (San Mateo-Burlingame Transit, Ford buses) to Chestnut Street only because of Broadway Tunnel construction.
Aug 21 - The San Francisco Grand Jury reported that during the calendar year 1949 Muni’s Powell Street cable cars lost $145,089. The railway "is powerless to eliminate the loss, as the voters mandated continuance of the Municipal cable cars." Heavy capital expenditures for track and "other essentials" will be required to keep cable cars in operation. The operating costs, per vehicle service hour, were trolley buses $4.72, motor buses $5.15 streetcars (two-man) $ 8.76 and cable cars $9.52.

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 September 2025: 

On the Other Cities page: A ten-year update about the the street-running funiculars in Lisbon, Portugal, with several photos of the Elevador do Lavra

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-August-2025)
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 31-May-2025)
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/

July 2025 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- July 1, 2025

I just put the July 2025 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 grip car of the Western Cable Railway (source An Inclined Cable Railway for Transferring Freight Cars Between the Upper and Lower Yards of the Western Cable Railway Co., St. Louis, MO. By Edw. Flag, Member, Engineers' Club Of St. Louis.).
2. On the new Cable Car Lines in Saint Louis page: The freight-hauling Western Cable Railway, which was not a Hallidie-type cable car line
3. Added News items about cable car operating issues and information about Muni fare changes

Ten years ago this month (July 2015):

1. Picture of the Month: At the 2013 Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest, Emcee Deb Durst interviews grand champion Carl Payne. The 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988 and 1989 champion gave an exhibition performance. The 2015 Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest will take place on Thursday, July 9 at Noon in Union Square
2. On the new Cable Car Lines in Saint Louis page: The freight-hauling Western Cable Railway, which was not a Hallidie-type cable car line

Twenty years ago this month (July 2005):

1. Picture of the Month: Jim Walker's 1962 photo of Cal Cable car 42 at a feed lot in Betteravia, California.
2. On the Cable Car Transfers, Tickets, Tokens and Signage page: Thanks to Walter Rice, Rudy Brandt's 1945 Muni employee pass and his 1944 union card, and a menu from the Cable Car Cafe on Bay Street
3. On the San Francisco page: Walter Rice has more stories about Samuel Kahn, Market Street Railway's principal owner
4. On the New York/New Jersey page: More 1887 newspaper articles about the first cable car line in Brooklyn, New York.
5. Added another News items about the return of Cal Cable car 42.
6. Added Bibliography items about a US News & World Report article and an obituary for Brian Jennings

100 years ago - 1925
Jul 01 - Market Street Railway Castro cable car no. 2 was fitted with a cable grip and brakes operated by air. The company felt that air grips could displace the present "unwieldy manually operated grip, give more space and convenience for passengers, and materially lighten the work of gripmen." A second Castro cable car No. 6 received the air grip and braking system on July 16, 1925.

25 years ago - 2000
Jul 16 - Frank Ware won the 37th annual Bell Ringing Contest
Jul 26 - A Powell/Hyde car stopped suddenly when the grip shank hit a coupler pin which fell from another car

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 July 2025: On the Other Cities page: A ten-year update about the Nova Companhia dos Ascensores Mecânicos de Lisboa, which operated two Hallidie-type cable car lines in Lisbon

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-July-2025)
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 31-May-2025)
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/

June 2025 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- June 1, 2025

I just put the June 2025 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: This real estate ad promotes an open house for an "Elegant Tyler Place Home." Prospective buyers could "Take Fourth street cable." (source: Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, 08-April-1888.)
2. On the Cable Car Lines in Saint Louis page: A ten-year update about the Peoples' Railway. including real estate ads
3. Added News items about cable car operating issues

Ten years ago this month (June 2015):

1. Picture of the Month: Fig. 27. -- Cable Train -- People's Railroad Co. (Source: "The Street Railway System of Saint Louis", The Street Railway Journal, June, 1895.)
2. On the new Cable Car Lines in Saint Louis page: The Peoples' Railway
3. Added News item about a terrible accident which seriously injured a cable car conductor

Twenty years ago this month (June 2005):

1. Picture of the Month: Muni Car 9, in the Market Street Railway's famous White Front paint scheme.
2. On the San Francisco page: Walter Rice's interview with Mrs. Barbara Kahn Gardner, daughter of Market Street Railway's principal owner, Samuel Kahn
3. Added the May installment of Val Lupiz's quarterly column, Tales From the Grip: "California, Here I Come"
4. On the New York/New Jersey page: 1887 newspaper articles about the first cable car line in Brooklyn, New York, and 1854 articles about the first horsecars in Brooklyn.
5. Added News and Bibliography items about a shutdown of the California Street cable car line. Added bibliography items and updated news items about the wildcat strike on 02-Mar-2005.

75 years ago - 1950
Jun 20 - San Francisco Powell cable car No. 524 had been shipped to Los Angeles for the 1950 Shriners convention, representing San Francisco’s Islam Temple; 524 was towed down that city’s Broadway on its own trucks using Los Angles Transit Lines’ narrow-gauge trackage as part of the Shriners parade. Ironically, Los Angles Transit Lines employees were on strike.
Jun 20 - Cal Cable files a suit against the City of San Francisco, seeking financial relief from removing and then replacing its tracks at Hyde Street and Broadway in connection with Broadway tunnel construction. The company objected to closing down the line for six months during construction and sought to have all costs it incurs because of the project of the paid for by the City.

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 July 2025: On the Cable Car Lines in Saint Louis page: A ten-year update about the Western Cable Railway, a cable-operated, freight-hauling line

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-June-2025)
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 31-May-2025)
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/

May 2025 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- May 1, 2025

Saint Louis Globe-Democrat, 04-June-1896

I just put the May 2025 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: This real estate ad promotes an open house for an "Elegant Tyler Place Home." Prospective buyers could "Take Fourth street cable." (source: Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, 08-April-1888.)
2. On the Cable Car Lines in Saint Louis page: A ten-year update about the Peoples' Railway. including real estate ads
3. Added News items about cable car operating issues

Ten years ago this month (May 2015):

1. Picture of the Month: Fig. 27. -- Cable Train -- People's Railroad Co. (Source: "The Street Railway System of Saint Louis", The Street Railway Journal, June, 1895.)
2. On the new Cable Car Lines in Saint Louis page: The Peoples' Railway
3. Added News item about a terrible accident which seriously injured a cable car conductor

Twenty years ago this month (May 2005):

1. Picture of the Month: Muni Car 9, in the Market Street Railway's famous White Front paint scheme.
2. On the San Francisco page: Walter Rice's interview with Mrs. Barbara Kahn Gardner, daughter of Market Street Railway's principal owner, Samuel Kahn
3. Added the May installment of Val Lupiz's quarterly column, Tales From the Grip: "California, Here I Come"
4. On the New York/New Jersey page: 1887 newspaper articles about the first cable car line in Brooklyn, New York, and 1854 articles about the first horsecars in Brooklyn.
5. Added News and Bibliography items about a shutdown of the California Street cable car line. Added bibliography items and updated news items about the wildcat strike on 02-Mar-2005.

175 years ago - 1850
May 1 - Alcalde John White Geary, later a general in the Civil War, was sworn in as the first Mayor of San Francisco
May 4 - The Second Great Fire destroyed the entire block bounded by Kearny, Clay, Montgomery and Washington

125 years ago - 1900
May 02 - Grand Avenue Railway (Kansas City, Missouri) converted its Westport line to electricity

50 years ago - 1975
May 08 - Hank Aaron hit his 715th home run, taking the lifetime home run record from Babe Ruth

75 years ago - 1950
May 01 - Public Utilities Commission Manager James Turner announced that cable car operation on Powell Street is suspended from May 1 to May 14, 1950, inclusive for the installation of a new turntable at Powell and Market Streets. The new turntable replaced the original Ferries and & Cliff House Railway (Powell Street Railway) turntable that has been in use since March 28, 1888. Monday, May 15, 1950, service was resumed on both the Washington-Jackson and Powell-Mason cables. During the 15-day suspension, buses covered both Powell lines.

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 June 2025: 
On the Cable Car Lines in Saint Louis page: A ten-year update about the Saint Louis Railroad

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-May-2025)
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 31-December-2024)
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/

April 2025 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- April 1, 2025

I just put the April 2025 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 first day of issue cachet for the cable car stamp from 1988. Note that the Powell-Hyde car is numbered 146. Does anyone recognize the artist's name?
2. On the Cable Car Kitsch page: 
3. More collectible items about cable cars, including: three first day of issue cachets for the 1988 cable car transportation stamp; a Matchbox auto decorated with a cable car; moved Santa Clara University's Cable Car Classic to its own section and added a program from 1969; added a Christmas ornament with Santa on a cable car; a wooden locomotive decorated for the San Francisco Giants (not a cable car); 1949 Examiner ads for cable car pins and wheel spinners and gearshift knobs with pictures of cable cars
4. Changed the toy cable car picture on the main page to Department 56 cable car.
5. Added News items about cable car service interruptions

Ten years ago this month (April 2015):

1. Picture of the Month: Fillmore Hill Counterbalance cars coupled together to run in Multiple Unit for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. (Source: "Two-Car Trains on 25 Per Cent Grade," Electric Railway Journal, 22-May-1915.)
2. On the San Francisco page: The Fillmore Hill Counterbalance and the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition
3. On the Kitsch page: A Melbourne stamp; a new toy cable car 504; a bottle of fingernail polish; a refrigerator magnet; a Starbucks mug; a Cal Tjader album cover; a Vince Guaraldi/Bola Sete album cover with a photo of California Street Cable Railroad car 10 at the San Francisco Zoo;
4. On the Market Street Cable Railway page: Thanks to Val Lupiz, a circa-1885 Market Street Cable Railway advertisement
5. Changed toy cable car picture on the main page to rear three-quarter view of toy cable car 504, with free-standing figures.

Twenty years ago this month (April 2005):

1. Picture of the Month: The cover of the second edition of Of Cables and Grips: The Cable Cars of San Francisco.
2. On the Kitsch page: A Downbeat magazine cover and more Hard Rock Cafe pins.
3. On the New York/New Jersey page: A contemporary newspaper article about the experimental non-grip line on the grounds of a lunatic asylum in Binghamton, New York
4. Added News and Bibliography items about the wildcat strike by Cable Car Division crews and the proposal to drastically increase cable car fares
5. On the Roster page: Powell Street Paint Schemes, with early examples of Blue and Gold and Green and Cream cars. Photos courtesy of Walter Rice.
6. Walter Rice provided another Sutro Railroad ticket and two current $3 collectors’ series tickets for the Cable Car Transfers, Tickets and Tokens page. Val Lupiz provided a rare Clay Street Hill Railroad ticket.
7. Changed toy cable car picture on the main page to red Number 28.

125 years ago - 1900
Apr 01 - Denver City Cable Company (Denver, Colorado) Larimer line converted to electricity
Apr 24 - Andrew Smith Hallidie died

50 years ago - 1975
Apr 08 - Hank Aaron hit his 715th home run, taking the lifetime home run record from Babe Ruth

25 years ago - 2000 Apr 24 - The California street line back in service after conduit reconstruction

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 May 2025: On the Cable Car Lines in Saint Louis page: A ten-year update about the Peoples' Railway, including contemporary newspaper items.

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-April-2025)
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 31-December-2024)
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/

March, 2025 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- March 1, 2025

I just put the March 2024 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: This real estate ad offers a space for a store and residential flats at "4068 Olive St. Terminus Olive St. Cable." The Missouri Railroad's Olive Street line started operating the month before. Note that Heath and Company's telephone number is 417. (source: Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, 08-April-1888.)
2. On the Cable Car Lines in Saint Louis page: A ten-year update about the Missouri Railroad, including contemporary newspaper items
3. Also on the Cable Car Lines in Saint Louis page: An update about the Delmar Loop Trolley.
4. Added News and Chronology items about the start of the project to refurbish all the cable car system's sheaves
5. Added News items about cable car service interruptions

Ten years ago this month (March 2015):

1. Picture of the Month: A typical three-car train of the Missouri Railroad. The open grip car is on the left. It is towing two enclosed trailers. (Source: "The Street Railway System of Saint Louis", The Street Railway Journal, June, 1895.)
2. On the new Cable Car Lines in Saint Louis page: The Missouri Railroad
3. On the Cable Car Lines in the UK page: A postcard showing the Isle of Man's Upper Douglas Cable Tramway
4. On the San Francisco page: Thanks to Ken Malucelli, photos and his memories of living in a Carville house.
5. Added News item about a visit by President Barack Obama and its effect on the cable cars
6. Added News item about the fifth annual San Francisco History Expo

Twenty years ago this month (March 2005):

1. Picture of the Month: The cover of the second edition of Of Cables and Grips: The Cable Cars of San Francisco.
2. On the San Francisco page: The second edition of Of Cables and Grips: The Cable Cars of San Francisco, by Robert Callwell & Walter E. Rice. Although the second edition is available on this web site, it is not yet available in a print-and-paper book format.
3. On the New York/New Jersey page: Contemporary newspaper articles about cable cars in Manhattan, including the beginning of the Broadway line in 1893 and the end in 1901.
4. On the Decorated Cable Cars page: Car 504 decorated for a 1954 festival, thanks to Walter Rice.

125 years ago - 1900
Mar 28 - Denver City Cable Company (Denver, Colorado) West Denver line converted to electricity
Mar 29 - Denver City Cable Company (Denver, Colorado) Welton line converted to electricity

75 years ago - 1950
Mar 24 - A Powell Street cable car hit an auto at Powell and Post.

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.

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 April 2025: On the Kitsch page: More collectible items about cable cars, including: a wooden locomotive decorated for the San Francisco Giants (not a cable car); 1949 Examiner ads for cable car pins and wheel spinners and gearshift knobs with pictures of cable cars 

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-March-2025)
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 31-December-2024)
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/

February, 2025 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- February 1, 2025

I just put the February 2024 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 Citizens Railway helped sell real estate in new Saint Louis neighborhoods like Rappahannock Heights (source: Saint Louis Globe-Democrat, 30-April-1893). "Only 3 Blocks to the Grand Avenue Cable Railroad."
2. A ten-year update about the Cable Car Lines in Saint Louis page: The Citizens Railway
3. On the Other California Cities page: A new article on the BART to OAK Connector, a cable-driven Automated People Mover
4. On the Who page: A new item about Frank Van Vleck, who was chief engineer of the Los Angeles Cable Railway and the San Diego Cable Railway
5. Added News and Chronology items about new Mayor Daniel Lurie and his family riding a cable car and a fare increase

Ten years ago this month (February 2015):

1. Picture of the Month: Jacob Volk's bottom grip, used on the Citizens Railway in Saint Louis. (Source: "The Volk Cable Grip and Carriage and Other Appliances", The Street Railway Journal, December, 1889.)
2. On the new Cable Car Lines in Saint Louis page: The Citizens Railway

Twenty years ago this month (February 2005):

1. Picture of the Month: Geary Street Park and Ocean steam train.
2. February 16 marks the 125th birthday of the Geary Street Park and Ocean Railway
3. Added "When Steam Ran on The Streets of San Francisco," a series of three articles by Walter Rice and Emiliano Echeverria about steam street railway operations in San Francisco on the San Francisco page.
4. Added News and Bibliography items about the destruction by fire of a Baltimore cable car powerhouse and barn

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 March 2025: On the Cable Car Lines in Saint Louis page: The Missouri Railroad

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-February-2025)
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 31-December-2024)
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/

January, 2025 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- January 1, 2025

Happy new year, everyone. In 2025, I will update my articles about cable car lines in Saint Louis.

I just put the January 2024 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 Saint Louis Cable and Western Railway helped sell real estate in new neighborhoods like Chamberlain Park. (source: Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, 01-October-1887.)
2. On the Cable Car Lines in Saint Louis page: A ten-year update about the Saint Louis Cable and Western Railway, the first Hallidie-type cable car line in Saint Louis, and which was part of a unique mixed-mode system which combined a cable car line with a narrow gauge steam railroad with several contemporary newspaper items
3. On the Cable Tramways in Australia and New Zealand page: The Christmas 2024-2025 schedule of the Wellington Cable Car
4. On the UK page: A new entry about the Central Tramway Company, Scarborough.
5. On the Cable Car Businesses page: An ad for Arnold S Gridley's Cable Car Charters.
6. Added News items about Decorating Cable Cars, a wildfire which caused service to be suspended on the Lookout Mountain Incline Railway, a service interruption on BART's cable-driven connector to the Oakland Airport and separate delays on the Powell and California Street lines on the same day

Ten years ago this month (January 2015):

1. Picture of the Month: Decorated car 10 inbound at Powell and Geary. A shopman leans out to check the tracks and slot. The decorations are sponsored by the skating rink in Union Square. lays over on California between Davis and Drumm during the 2014 Muni Heritage Weekend.
2. On the new Cable Car Lines in Saint Louis page: The Saint Louis Cable and Western Railway, the first Hallidie-type cable car line in Saint Louis, was part of a unique mixed-mode system which combined a cable car line with a narrow gauge steam railroad
3. On the Decorated Cable Cars page: Photos of cable cars decorated for Christmas 2014. Thanks to Val Lupiz, we have photos of car 52, which he and his family and Friends decorated. We should all thank Val and his family and Friends who decorate cars every year.
4. On the Who page: A new item about RT Murphy, who contributed much valuable information to this site.
5. Added News items about the effects of a big rainstorm in December
   

Twenty years ago this month (January 2005):

Picture of the Month:
Clay Street Hill grip car 8 and trailer 1 at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Added some information from Walter Rice about the display on the Chicago page.
Added "When Stationary Steam Engines Powered the Cable," an article by Walter Rice and Emiliano Echeverria about the Washington/Mason powerhouse
Updated the Decorated Cable Cars article with photos of the 2004 batch and photos from the 1973 centennial.
Added newspaper articles from 1873 about the first test of the Clay Street Hill cable car line, and a series of political attacks on Andrew S Hallidie , who was running for state senate at the time

25 years ago - 2000

The California street line shut down for conduit reconstruction

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 February 2025: On the Cable Car Lines in Saint Louis page: The Citizens Railway in Saint Louis

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-January-2025)
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 31-December-2024)
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/

December 2024 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- December 1, 2024

I just put the December 2024 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: Santa and friends will ride a cable car down Powell Street to the Emporium. "He'll open up our big fabulous, eye-popping Toyland!" I miss the roof rides. (Source: San Francisco Examiner, 1949-10-28).
2. With Christmas coming, it's a good time to visit the late Joe Lacey's article Christmas on the Cables, and the Decorated Cable Cars page. Added a photo of Santa riding atop a cable car and a 1952 Emporium ad about the Santacade to Christmas on the Cables. Cable car Christmas decorations celebrated their 20th anniversary.
3. Added News and Chronology items about a threat to future cable car service and a two-day bus substitution.

Ten years ago this month (December 2014):

1. Picture of the Month: Unique original-condition California Street Cable Railroad O'Farrell-Jones-Hyde car 42 lays over on California between Davis and Drumm during the 2014 Muni Heritage Weekend.
2. With Christmas coming, it's a good time to visit Joe Lacey's article Christmas on the Cables, and the Decorated Cable Cars page. We should all thank Val and his family and Friends who decorate cars every year.

Twenty years ago this month (December 2004):

1. Picture of the Month: A Castro Cable car in the 1930's. 
2. Thanks to Walter Rice, former Chair of the Friends of the Cable Car Museum:
   • Added "Market Street Railway's Efforts to Curtail Its Cable Car System," contemporary newspaper articles and photos with an introduction by Walter Rice.
   • Added Glen Hurlburt's "Cable Car Concerto," a 1947 composition that represents a ride on the Mason Street line, with an introductory essay by Walter Rice.

175 years ago - 1849
Dec 24 - The First Great Fire in San Francisco destroyed the buildings on the south and east sides of the Plaza, causing $1 million in damage.

125 years ago - 1899
Dec 31 - Former Omnibus Howard Street main line and Post Street Francisco, California) were closed.

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 January 2025: 
On the Cable Car Lines in Saint Louis page: A ten-year update about the Saint Louis Cable and Western Railway, the first Hallidie-type cable car line in Saint Louis, which was part of a unique mixed-mode system which combined a cable car line with a narrow-gauge steam railroad

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-December-2024)
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 31-October-2024)
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/

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November 2024 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- November 1, 2024

San Francisco Examiner, 06-January-1951

I just put the November 2024 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: An ad for the Cable Car Cocktail Lounge in Fred Solari's Grill at 21 Maiden Lane. "Have a HIGHBALL at NITEFALL." (Source: San Francisco Examiner, 06-January-1951).
2. On the Cable Car Businesses page: A new article about the Cable Car Cocktail Lounge in Fred Solari's Grill Street station

Ten years ago this month (November 2014):

1. Picture of the Month: Catcher Buster Posey and closer Santiago Casilla pass the old Main Library, now the Asian Art Museum, on their double deck motorized cable car during the Giants' 2014 World Series victory parade
2. On the Decorated Cable Cars page: the the 2014 Giants Victory Parade.
3. On the Cable Car Lines in New York and New Jersey page: A new article about the New York Cable Railway, which was a name shared by a company that tried to create a comprehensive system in Manhattan and a another that built cable traction systems in other cities
4. On the Who page: Added a profile from the Street Railway Journal about EJ Lawless , who worked on cable car lines in San Francisco and Kansas City and who was the propritor of a marvelous mustache
5. On the More California Street Pictures page: Some new Cal Cable photos around California and Drumm

Twenty years ago this month (November 2004):

1. Picture of the Month: A Pacific Avenue cable train in the 1920's.
2. Migrated one item from the Cable Car Museum site:
   • Added "The Sutter Street Railway - History and Technology," an article by Walter Rice, in honor of the 75th anniversary of the abandonment of the Pacific Avenue cable line on 17 November.
3. Added a newspaper article about the hearing to allow the abandonment of the Pacific Avenue cable car line to the newspaper article page
4. Added a photo of Henry Casebolt's balloon car to the Who page
5. Added a new article by Walter Rice about the 1950 Broadway Tunnel Construction Project and how it caused the O'Farrell/Jones/Hyde line to be temporarily replaced by Ford buses. Photos from Robert Townley and Walter Vielbaum.
6. Added News and Bibliography items about some outages and an accident that occurred in October

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 December 2024: Cable cars of Christmas past.

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-November-2024)
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 31-October-2024)
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/