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

Office of Senator Dianne Feinstein

I just put the October 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: Mayor Dianne Feinstein riding on a California Street cable car (Source: Office of Senator Dianne Feinstein).
2. On the Who page: Added a new article about Senator Dianne Feinstein, who died in September.
3. On the Centennial and Sesquicentennial of the Birth of the Cable Car page:
   Some new items about the Cable Car Sesquicentennial.

Ten years ago this month (October, 2013):

1. Picture of the Month: The interior of the Citizens Traction Company's new carhouse at Penn and Franklin Avenues. (Source: The Street Railway Journal, April, 1894. Volume XI, Number 4.)
2. On the Pennsylvania page: The Citizens Traction Company, Pittsburgh's second Hallidie-type cable car line, including a nice Street Railway Journal article about "A Modern Car House"
3. Added News item about the a derailment on Angels Flight in Los Angeles

Twenty years ago this month (October, 2003):

1. Picture of the Month: Belding silk ad with Chicago cable train
2. On the Chicago page: "Memories" a poem by Franklin P Adams. Also more images, including a stereo view of State and Madison.
3. On the Cable Cars in the Pacific Northwest page, updated article about Tacoma's Steve's Cable Car Room. Thanks to Ron Gates for information and photos about the disposition of the cable car booths.
4. On the California Street Cable Railroad page, I added an item about a former Cal Cable car which was being prepared to promote a restaurant in Portland, Oregon

Coming in November, 2023: More about the 150th birthday of the cable cars

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

The Cable Car Home Page also has an Instagram page:
https://www.instagram.com/cable_car_guy/

Joe Thompson
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