October, 2018 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- October 1, 2018

I just put the October, 2018 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 Chicago City Railway's Wabash/Cottage Grove Avenue cable trains carry crush loads of passengers to Chicago Day at the World's Columbian Exposition on 09-October-1893. (source: The Scientific American, January 27, 1894).
2. On the Chicago page, a new article about the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, which provided lots of business for the city's cable cars.
3. On the San Francisco page: A ten and twenty year update on San Francisco's Telegraph Hill Railroad, including contemporary newspaper articles
4. On the Who page: Added an article about Gustav Sutro, who was president of the Omnibus Railroad and the Telegraph Hill Railroad.
5. On the Geary Street Park and Ocean Railway page: An 1882 ad for Baldwin Steam Motors.
6. On the Presidio and Ferries Railway page: An 1882 ad for Seaside Gardens, "Presidio -- Terminus of Union-street Cable Road."
7. Added News, Roster and Chronology items about Muni's 2018 Heritage Weekend
8. Added News and Chronology items about Powell/Mason bus substitution
9. Added News item about cable car fare collection audit.


Ten years ago this month (October, 2008):
1. Picture of the Month: After spending 30 years in San Quentin, Agglestein (Agustín) Castro sees cable cars for the first time and asks "Are those the automobiles?"
2. A new installment of Val Lupiz's column Tales From the Grip: "Rookie Bites"
3. On the San Francisco page: "Lost To The World For Thirty Years", a 1901 newspaper article about Agglestein (Agustín) Castro, who returned to San Francisco after spending 30 years in San Quentin
4. Also on the San Francisco page: Added a description of the Telegraph Hill Railroad from a travel book
5. Added a News item about a newly developed cable car simulation
6. Added News and Bibliography items about a fatal accident on Powell Street


Twenty years ago this month (October, 1998):
1. Picture of the Month: URR Valencia Street Car.
2. Add MSR photo to MSR page
3. Add article about Telegraph Hill Railroad to the SF Miscellany section
4. Add powered turntable suggestion to news & bibliography
5. Add new links to Melbourne page

125 years ago this month, on 13-October-1893, the Consolidated Electric Railway was purchased by the Los Angeles Railway

75 years ago this month, on 20-October-1893, the Court Flight, a funicular in Los Angeles, was damaged in a fire and went out of business

Coming in November, 2018: On the San Francisco page: A ten and twenty year update on San Francisco's Fillmore Hill Counterbalance, which carried passengers up and down one of the steepest hills in the city.

On my Park Trains and Tourist Trains page: the 2018 Raifair at Ardenwood Historic Farm:
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ptrain/

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

Joe Thompson
The Cable Car Home Page (updated 01-October-2018)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/
San Francisco Bay Ferryboats (updated 31-August-2018)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ferry/
Park Trains and Tourist Trains (updated 30-September-2018)
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/