March, 2020 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- March 1, 2020

I just put the March, 2020 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 West Chicago Street Railroad powerhouse at Washington and Jefferson Streets still stands in altered condition. I don't know why that big blank wall is there in front. Google Maps Streetview Image updated August 2019. Copyright 2020 Google.
2. On the Chicago page, A ten and twenty year update about the the West Chicago Street Railroad
3. Added News item about how production of a movie caused bus substitution on the Cal Cable line.


Ten years ago this month (March, 2010):
1. Picture of the Month: West Chicago Street Railroad trains on Randolph Street
2. On the Chicago page, more about the West Chicago Street Railroad, including a selection from the 1898 Report of Special Committee of the City Council of Chicago on the Street Railway Franchises & Operations, an ad for a default settlement, and a contemporary newspaper article:
Chicago -- Halsted Street Runaway (Saint Paul Daily Globe, Monday, February 25, 1895) Also on the Chicago page, two magazine articles about the Chicago Tunnel Railway
3. Also on the Chicago page, two magazine articles about the Chicago Tunnel Railway
4. On the San Francisco page: A link to a blog about Cubbie the Cable Car
5. On the Cable Car Video page:
-- Two F Line views of Muni 162 this year.
6. Thanks to Ric Francis, added News and Bibliography items about the shutdown of the Penang Hills Railway, a funicular
7. Added News and Bibliography items about Eric Neubauer's book about early Pullman car production
8. Add link to the website of an Italian colonel who commands a military railroad engineering unit


Twenty years ago this month (March, 2000):
1. Picture of the Month: West Chicago cable train on Madison Street
2. Add West Chicago Street Railway to Chicago page.
3. Add article about the Chicago Tunnel Railway to the Chicago Miscellany page
4. Add more detail to Seattle page. Add Yesler/2nd & Iron Pergola pictures.
5. Add J M Thompson (no relation) to the Who page
6. Add links to Steve Annells' The Bus Station, Jacek Wesolowski's Urban Mountain Railways and People Movers site, and Joel GAzis-SAx's An Almanac of California.

125 years ago, on 03-March-1895, the Gilmor Street line of the Baltimore Traction Company was converted to electric traction

Also 125 years ago, on 09-March-1895, Washington DC's Columbia Railway opened its main line

Also 125 years ago, on 19-March-1895, Oakland's Consolidated Piedmont Cable Company sold at auction

Coming in April, 2020: On the Cable Car Lines in Chicago page: On the Cable Car Kitsch page: Twenty years of Kitsch. New items include another TWA poster.

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

Joe Thompson
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