January, 2021 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- January 1, 2021

The Cable Car Home Page will be 25 years old in November.

I just put the January, 2021 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 main power station of the Chicago City Railway (source: The Street Railway Journal, August, 1889). 

2. On the Chicago page: Read about the Main Power Station of the Chicago City Railway. (source: The Street Railway Journal, August, 1889). 

3. On the Cable Car Lines in Ohio page: A ten year update about the Cleveland City Cable Railway, including a new ad for bonds. 

4. Added News items about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and a proposal to remodel the outer terminal of the Cal Cable line

Ten years ago this month (January, 2011):
1. The picture of the month: A Lefton model of a Cleveland City Cable Railway Payne Avenue grip car.

2. On the new Cable Car Lines in Ohio page: A new article about the Cleveland City Cable Railway

3. On the Who page: A new article about Colonel William H Paine, engineer on the Cleveland City Cable Railway and many other cable traction lines

4. On the Decorated Cable Cars page: More images of car 60 decorated for Christmas 2010, along with photos of other decorated cars including 9, 13, 14, and 25, mostly taken on a day of playing tourist.

5. Added News and Bibliography items about the early shutdown of the California Street line

6. Added News items about plans to make Powell into a pedestrian mall all the way to Geary Street and about the Angels Flight 109th birthday celebration

7. Add links to new site for Peter Ehrlich's photography business and the San Francisco Trains site

Twenty years ago this month (Winter, 2001):
1. Picture of the Quarter: Market/Hayes cable car by IW Taber

2. Roll out More Market Street Pictures page.

3. Add "The Los Angeles Cable Railway" article from Scientific American, courtesy of Tom Ehrenreich.

4. Ray Long provided two photographs of the Industry Hills Incline, one of Sacramento/Clay car 16 on the Emporium roof and one of Cal Cable 56 at Washington/Mason.

5. Add section on The Electrical System to How Page.

6. Add Beebe book and article about ergonomic adjustments to turntable to Bibliography.

Coming in February, 2021: On the Cable Car Lines in Ohio page: 

A ten year update about Cleveland's Brooklyn Street Railroad/South Side Railway, both owned by Tom L Johnson, one of which had an experimental cable installation using the Johnson Ladder Cable System

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

Joe Thompson
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