January, 2023 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- January 1, 2023

Seattle Star, 15-April-1940

I just put the January 2023 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: Last Cable Ride -- When the first Madison street cable car started up Madison 50 years ago, one of the passengers was Mrs. George Heilbron, whose husband was one of the founders of the line. And on the last trip Sunday Mrs. Heilbron rode again. She is talking to Col. C. D. Mills, general manager of the transit system, ahe aged cable car sways along the tracks to the barn. Today gasoline buses operated up and down the hill. (Source: Seattle Star, 15-April-1940, page 11)
2. On the Cable Cars in the Pacific Northwest page: More pictures and information about Seattle cable cars, including newspaper accounts of the closing of three lines in 1940. Aside from the lines in San Francisco, these were the last three Hallidie-type cable car lines in the United States.
3. Add News item about the Cable Car Cleanup

Ten years ago this month (January, 2013):
1. Picture of the Month: Looking up Seattle's Madison Street Hill. A Front Street Cable Railway car crosses on First Street. (Source: "Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, Everett, Astoria," The Street Railway Journal, May, 1893. Volume IX, Number 5.
2. More about the 100th birthday of the San Francisco Municipal Railway
3. On the Cable Cars in the Pacific Northwest page: More pictures and information about Seattle cable cars, including selected articles from The Street Railway Journal.
4. On the Decorated Cable Cars page: More cable cars decorated for Christmas 2012.
5. Added News item about a new book from the Friends of the Cable Car Museum

Twenty years ago this month (January, 2003):
1. Picture of the Month: New Powell/Market turntable
2. Add the Beach Pneumatic Subway to the Cable Car Lines in New York and New Jersey page.
3. Add article about the Powell Street Turntable Replacement to the San Francisco page.
4. Added photos and thumbnailed others on the Clay Street Hill Railroad page. Also expanded added photos and expanded article on Andrew S Hallidie on the Who page.
5. Add photos to the News items about the bell ringing contest and Powell Street turntable replacement.

175 years ago on 24-January-1848, James Marshall discovered gold in the run of Sutter's Mill near Coloma, CA. This led to the Gold Rush, which shaped the future of California and San Francisco.

75 years ago on 15-January-1948, Carl Hubbell, great Giants pitcher, was elected to the Hall of Fame.

Coming in February, 2023: On the Cable Cars in the Pacific Northwest page: More pictures and information about the Portland Cable Railway

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

Joe Thompson
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