July, 2022 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- July 1, 2022

San Francisco Chronicle, 12-December-1897

I just put the July 2022 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: "Fillmore and Sutter Street Cars Crash Into One Another -- Several Passengers Injured." (Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 12-December-1897)
2. On the Sutter Street Railway page: An 1897 article about a collision between a Sutter Street cable car and a Fillmore Street electric car: Collision at Sutter and Fillmore.
3. Archived April 2022 What's New and January-June 2021 news items

Ten years ago this month (July, 2012):
1. Picture of the Month: Proposal for a cable-driven elevated railway. (Source: Exposé of the Facts Concerning the Proposed Elevated Patent Railway. 1866.).
2. On the Cable Car Lines in New York and New Jersey page: More about the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway, including an image from an 1867 proposal and an 1869 newspaper article with technical details and lists of investors and company officers:
- The Elevated Railway; Successful Trial Trips of the West Side Railroad in Greenwich-Street (New York Times, Tuesday, September 7, 1869)
3. Added date for the 2012 Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest
4. Archived April 2012 What's New and January-June 2011 news items

Twenty years ago this month (July, 2002):
1. Picture of the Month: Charles T Harvey testing his West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway.
2. Add Manhattan's West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway, a pre-Hallidie cable line and the first elevated railway, to the Cable Car Lines in New York and New Jersey page.
3. Add article about Charles T Harvey to the Who page
4. Add two articles about the 1949 Cal Cable strike to the Newspaper article page
5. Add Selected articles from Manufacturer and Builder Magazine (1870-1879) to the Miscellany page. This contains many articles about early els in New York.
6. Add News item about reconstruction of Seattle's Iron Pergola.
7. Archive Apr 2002 What's New and Jan-Jun 2001 newspaper articles.

Coming in August, 2022: On the Sutter Street Railway page: An 1897 San Francisco Examiner story about the same collision at Fillmore and Sutter between a Fillmore Street electric car and a Sutter Street cable train.

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Joe Thompson
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