February, 2024 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- February 1, 2024

I just put the February 2024 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: A postcard view of the Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway shows both the Mount Pisgah and Mount Jefferson inclined planes.
2. On the Cable Cars in Pennsylvania page: A ten year update about the Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway, one of America's oldest railroads and one of the inspirations for the roller coaster. Includes information about other gravity rail operations.
3. On the Decorated Cable Cars page: A list of cable cars decorated for Christmas, Kwanzaa and Pistahan 2023.
4. On the Miscellany page: "American Inclined Plane Railways," by Samuel Diescher, Cassier's Magazine, June, 1897.)
5. On the Sutter Street Railway page: An item about the SSR receiving its boiler water from the ocean and sending the used water to the nearby Lurline Baths.
6. Added News item about disruptions caused by a cable car getting stuck on a turntable

Ten years ago this month (February, 2014):

1. Picture of the Month: A postcard view of the Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway. "Mount Jefferson plane."
2. On the Pennsylvania page: A new article about the Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway, one of America's oldest railroads and one of the inspirations for the roller coaster. Includes information about other gravity rail operations.
3. On the Who page: Added a profile from the Street Railway Journal about Howard C Holmes, who worked on the Powell Street lines in San Francisco, and lines in Oakland, Spokane, and Seattle
4. On the Cable Car Businesses page, an announcement of the closing of Joe's Cable Car Restaurant. Also a News item.
5. Added News item about cable cars being pulled from the streets because of a 49ers championship game
6. On the Horse Car Home Page: Celebrating the Year of the Horse Speedy
7. Added Other Transit and Railway Sites link to American Railroad History by Margarita Hakobyan.

Twenty years ago this month (February, 2004):

1. Picture of the Month: Last day of the Jones Street Shuttle
2. Add newspaper articles about the last days of the California Street Cable Railroad's Jones Street Shuttle and updated the Cal Cable page
3. Updated my article about the 2003 Cable Car Bell Ringing Invitational with information from its organizer, Nick Tomizawa
4. Add information about the retirement of old car 28 and the rollout of new car 28 to the roster page
5. Add a photo of the former powerhouse and information about the discovery of a turntable base to the Consolidated Piedmont Cable Company article on the Other California Cities page

Coming in March, 2024: On the Cable Cars in Pennsylvania page: A new article about the Allegheny Portage Railroad, the first railroad to cross the Alleghenys, using inclined planes.

150 Years Ago This Month (February, 1874): Feb 01 - San Francisco's Clay Street Hill Cable Railroad carried 76,500 passengers.

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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Park Trains and Tourist Trains (updated 31-December-2023)
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The Pneumatic Rolling-Sphere Carrier Delusion (updated spasmodically)
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