I just put the January 2024 version of my Cable Car Home Page on the server:
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/
It includes some new items:
- Picture of the Month: A postcard view of a car on the Johnstown Inclined Plane. People rode on the lower level with the windows and wagons and teams rode on the upper level with the large opening.
- On the Cable Cars in Pennsylvania page: A ten year update about the Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway.
- On the Decorated Cable Cars page: A list of cable cars decorated for Christmas, Kwanzaa and Pistahan 2023.
- On Walter Rice's page about Glen Hurlburt's "Cable Car Concerto," a 1947 composition that represents a ride on the Mason Street line, added an image of an adverisement for Hurlburt's appearance in Carmel.
- Added News items about a chance to climb aboard a motorized cable car at Powell and Market and a display of photos from the Muni Archive
Ten years ago this month (January, 2014):
- Picture of the Month: A postcard view of the steep Johnstown Inclined Plane.
- On the Who page: Added an obituary for incline engineer Samuel Diescher. Also added a profile from the Street Railway Journal about Winthrop Bartlett, who worked on several of the cable car lines in Saint Louis
- On the Decorated Cable Cars page, a photo of Cal Cable 52 decorated for Christmas 2013.
Twenty years ago this month (January, 2004):
- Picture of the Month: GSPO terminal at Geary and Kearney
- Add newspaper articles about the last days of the Geary Street, Park and Ocean and updated the GSPO page
- Add new page about Decorated Cable Cars
- Add article about Ray McCann to the Who page
- Add News item about Cable Car Division Senior Luncheon
Coming in February, 2024: On the Cable Cars in Pennsylvania page: A ten year update about the Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway.
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
The Cable Car Home Page (updated 01-January-2024)
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-December-2023)
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 obsessively)
http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/
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