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

 

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

I just put the June, 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 Mount Auburn Cable Railway's powerhouse and carbarn at Dorchester Street and Highland Avenue survived until the 21st Century. This image was taken in November, 2020, two months before the roof collapsed under a burden of snow. The building was demolished in February, 2021 (Source: Copyright 2019 Google).
2. On the Cable Car Lines in Ohio page: A ten year update about Cincinnati's Mount Auburn Cable Railway, including images of the powerhouse before the roof collapsed in early 2021.
3. On the Cable Tramways in Australia and New Zealand page: Links to current videos about Dunedin, New Zealand's Mornington Tramway and the Wellington Cable Car. Thank you to Bus Driver Nick for sharing his work.
4. Added News items about Cal Cable car 60 appearing in a movie and the pandemic and the return of the F-line

Ten years ago this month (June, 2011):
1. The picture of the month: Grip car 21 of Cincinnati's Mount Auburn Cable Railway
2. On the new Cable Car Lines in Ohio page: A new article about Cincinnati's Mount Auburn Cable Railway. Including magazine articles and contemporary newspaper articles:
-- "Articles of incorporation of the Mt. Auburn Cable Railway Company, of Cincinnati have been left with the Secretary of State." (Springfield Daily Republic. (Springfield, Ohio), Saturday, January 31, 1885)
-- "One hundred thousand dollars of stock for the Mt. Auburn cable road has been subscribed and paid up." (Daily Evening Bulletin (Maysville, Kentucky), Monday, March 16, 1885)
-- "The board of public works of Cincinnati refused to grant privileges to the Mount Auburn Cable Railroad company to construct a cable road on Sycamore street to the Zoological garden." (Daily Evening Bulletin (Maysville, Kentucky), Wednesday, June 10, 1885)
-- "The Mt. Auburn cable is expected to be ready for operation from Fourth street, Cincinnati, to Mt. Auburn within a month." (Springfield Daily Republic. (Springfield, Ohio), Saturday, August 27, 1887)
-- "TEN PERSONS HURT IN A CABLE CAR" (The New-York Tribune, Sunday, March 10, 1889)
3. Also on the new Cable Car Lines in Ohio page: Contemporary newspaper articles about Cincinnati's cable cars and the Vine Street Cable Railway: A new article about Cincinnati's Mount Auburn Cable Railway. Including magazine articles and contemporary newspaper articles:
-- "...there are now in successful operation in Cincinnati three well-equipped cable railways..." (Perrysburg Journal. (Perrysburg, Ohio)), Friday, April 13, 1888). The three Hallidie-type cable car lines in Cincinnati. A new article about Cincinnati's Mount Auburn Cable Railway. Including magazine articles and contemporary newspaper articles:
-- "Some Funny Bets" (The Hocking Sentinel, (Logan, Ohio)), Thursday, November 15, 1888). Two Vine Street conductors make an unusual bet on the presidential election. A new article about Cincinnati's Mount Auburn Cable Railway. Including magazine articles and contemporary newspaper articles:
-- "KILLED ON A CABLE CAR/A Peculiar Accident Results From Carelessness." (St. Paul Daily Globe), Monday, July 15, 1889) A new article about Cincinnati's Mount Auburn Cable Railway. Including magazine articles and contemporary newspaper articles:
-- "Her Pretty Teeth" (Wichita Eagle, Tuesday, October 29, 1889). Reprinted in many newspapers, this joke was set on a Vine Street cable car. A new article about Cincinnati's Mount Auburn Cable Railway. Including magazine articles and contemporary newspaper articles:
-- Powerhouse Destroyed (Daily Evening Bulletin (Maysville, Kentucky), Monday, March 21, 1892) A new article about Cincinnati's Mount Auburn Cable Railway. Including magazine articles and contemporary newspaper articles:
-- "Yakey in Cincinnati." (The National Tribune), Thursday, August 10, 1893). A Vine Street employee keeps in touch with a conversation club in Washington, DC.
4. On the Australia/New Zealand page: Thanks to Ric Fisher, updated the Penang Hills Railway article to reflect the reopening of the rebuilt line and include his latest photographs

Twenty years ago this quarter (Spring, 2001):
1. Picture of the Quarter: Will Clark riding on cable car
2. Add more items to the Kitsch page, including stamps and magazine advertisements.
3. Add Selected articles from Manufacturer and Builder Magazine (1880-1884) to the Miscellany page.
4. Update How Do Cable Cars Work? page. Changed images to thumbnails. Added girder rail image from Randy Hees and other new images.
5. Bob Murphy provided a photograph of the Gertrude Street Cable Winding House, which I added to the Melbourne article. Peter Vawser provided additional information about Melbourne cable tramways.
6. Add links to Kavanaugh Transit site, North American Vintage Trolley Systems and many others.
7. Add News and Bibliography items about a truck knocking down Seattle's Iron Pergola.
8. Add News and Bibliography items about Angel's Flight runaway accident. Also updated the Los Angeles Area Funiculars page.
9. Move Kalakala article to my ferry web site.
10. Change toy cable car picture on the main page to car 51.
11. Move "The Los Angeles Cable Railway" article from Scientific American (courtesy of Tom Ehrenreich) to another server.

Coming in July, 2021: On the Cable Car Lines in the UK page:  More about the Isle of Man's Upper Douglas Cable Tramway.

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