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| Street Railway Journal, May, 1893 |
I just put the February 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:
Two cars of the Portland Cable Railway pass on the trestle's 20% grade. (Source: "Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, Everett, Astoria," The Street Railway Journal, May, 1893. Volume IX, Number 5.)
2. On the Cable Cars in the Pacific Northwest page: More pictures and information about the Portland Cable Railway, including selected newspaper articles.
3. On the Cable Cars in the Pacific Northwest page: A new item about the Astoria Cable Railway
4. On the Who page: A new article about Joe Orengo, a major league player and Giants executive who was involved with cable cars.
5. On the Cable Car Models page, a model of a Powell Street cable car covered with flowers was San Francisco's entry in the 1948 Tournament of Roses Parade.
Ten years ago this month (February, 2013):
1. Picture of the Month: Looking up Portland's great trestle from the powerhouse. (Source: "Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, Everett, Astoria," The Street Railway Journal, May, 1893. Volume IX, Number 5.
2. On the Cable Cars in the Pacific Northwest page: More pictures and information about the Portland Cable Railway, including selected articles from The Street Railway Journal.
3. More about the 100th birthday of the San Francisco Municipal Railway
4. On the Cable Car Models page, a paper model of a California Street cable car by Wurlington Bros. Also a News item
5. On the San Francisco page: Added a photo I took of Greenwich Street, the route of the Telegraph Hill Railroad
6. Added News item about the cable-driven automated people mover being built to connect BART and the Oakland Airport and work going on around the inner terminal of the California Street cable line
7. Added San Francisco and California History Sites link to ThinkWalks
Twenty years ago this month (February, 2003):
1. Picture of the Month:
Portland, Oregon cable car
2. Add the Portland Cable Railway to the Cable Cars in the Pacific Northwest page
3. Thumbnail pictures on the California Street Cable Railroad and More California Street Pictures pages.
4. Add News and Bibliography items about proposed fare increase.
175 years ago on 02-February-1848, the treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican War and formally ceded California to the United States
125 years ago on 01-February-1898, the Mount Adams & Eden Park Railway (Cincinatti, OH) closed
Coming in March, 2023: On the Cable Cars in the Pacific Northwest page: More pictures and information about the Tacoma Railway and Motor Company
The Cable Car Home Page now has a Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/CableCarHomePage/
Joe Thompson
The Cable Car Home Page (updated 01-February-2023)
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 30-September-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 (new blog)
http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/
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