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| San Francisco Call, 12-December-1897 |
It includes some new items:
1. Picture of the Month:
"A Runaway Electric Car Crashes Into a Sutter Cable Car." (Source: San Francisco Call, 12-December-1897)
2. On the Sutter Street Railway page: A third 1897 article about a collision between a Sutter Street cable car and a Fillmore Street electric car: Collision at Sutter and Fillmore (from the San Francisco Call).
3. Add News items about the passing of Fred Lyon and more about the pandemic.
Ten years ago this month (September 2012):
1. Picture of the Month:
A view of the Brooklyn Terminal of the Brooklyn Bridge Railway from the February 1897 Street Railway Journal: "The Bridge Transportation System Between New York and Brooklyn".
2. On the Cable Car Lines in New York and New Jersey page: More about the New York and Brooklyn Bridge Railway, a cable-driven rapid transit line, including a detailed article in the February 1897 Street Railway Journal: "The Bridge Transportation System Between New York and Brooklyn".
3. On the Cable Car Businesses page and the News, an item and photo about Cable Car Clothiers moving back to Sutter Street
4. On the More Muni Photos page: screencaps from a webcam back in 2002. Powell/Mason cable cars, motorized cable cars, Milan cars, Melbourne 496 and a glimpse of PCC 1054 (Philly Cream Cheese) before it was wrecked in 2003
Twenty years ago this month (September 2002):
1. Picture of the Month:
Brooklyn Bridge cross section
2. Add the New York and Brooklyn Bridge Railway, a cable-driven rapid transit line, to the Cable Car Lines in New York and New Jersey page.
3. Add an article about the Malaysian Penang Hills Funicular Railway to the Cable Tramways in Australia and New Zealand. I know it is not in Australia or New Zealand, but it's in the same hemisphere and Ric Francis, who kindly provided the information and the illustrations, is Australian.
4. Add photo of Byron Cobb to News item about Union Square reopening.
5. Add cable diameter measurement to How page.
125 Years ago This Month (September 1897):
Sep 19 - Butte City Street Railroad closed
Sep 29 - Washington and Georgetown Railroad 14th St Powerhouse destroyed by fire. 14th St & Georgetown lines temporarily replaced by horses, next year by electric cars
Coming in October 2022:
On the Cable Car Lines in New York and New Jersey page: A ten- and twenty-year update about Manhattan's Third Avenue Railroad.
The Cable Car Home Page now has a Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/CableCarHomePage/
Joe Thompson
The Cable Car Home Page (updated 01-September-2022)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/
San Francisco Bay Ferryboats (updated 31-January-2020)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ferry/
Park Trains and Tourist Trains (updated 31-July-2022)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ptrain/
The Pneumatic Rolling-Sphere Carrier Delusion (updated spasmodically)
http://cablecarguy.blogspot.com
The Big V Riot Squad (updated often)
http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/
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